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Press the "Subscribe" button and to begin your free subscription, or click on an author's name for more information about that author and about his or her works.   William Harrison Ainsworth, British gothic novelist (1805-1882) The Star-Chamber (1853) 37 parts of about 5,000 words each. A stereotypical swashbuckler set in the days of James I.   Louisa May Alcott, American children's novelist (1805-1882) Jack and Jill (1879-80) 11 parts of 5,000-12,000 words each. A story of childhood from one of America's best-loved children's authors.   Edward Bulwer-Lytton, British melodramatic novelist (1803-1873) What Will He Do With It? (1857-59) 20 parts of 15,000-20,000 words each. A long-past family scandal makes new trouble for a large cast of characters.   William Wilkie Collins, British sensation novelist (1824-1889) A Rogue's Life (1856) 5 parts of 8,000-12,000 words each. This short early novel tells the story of an unscrupulous young man from a respectable, but impoverished, family. The Woman in White (1859-60) 40 parts of 5,000-10,000 words each. One of Collins' best known and most atmospheric novels. No Name (1862-63) 45 parts of 5,000-7,000 words each. A tightly plotted story of revenge and desperation; one of Collins' best heroines. Armadale (1864-66) 20 parts of 12,000-20,000 words each. The fate of two friends is in the hands of the ruthless Lydia Gwilt. The Black Robe (1880-81) 8 parts of 12,000-16,000 words each. A Jesuit plots to convert a wealthy Englishman. The Evil Genius (1885-86) 21 parts of 4,000-8,000 words each. Divorce is the centerpiece of this later novel.   John W. De Forest, American Civil War novelist (1826-1906) Overland (1870) 12 parts of 10,000-12,000 words each. An old-fashioned Western from a prominent Civil War novelist.   Charles Dickens, British social novelist (1812-1870) The Pickwick Papers (1836-37) 19 parts of 15,000-17,000 words each. Dickens' first novel, a travelogue through the inns and taverns of England. Nicholas Nickleby (1848-49) In preparation. Oliver Twist (1837) 24 parts of 5,000-10,000 words each. Growing up on the streets of London, Oliver falls in with Fagin and the Artful Dodger. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) 40 parts of 3,000-6,000 words each. One of the most famous serial novels of all time made little Nell a worldwide celebrity. Dombey and Son (1846-48) 19 parts of 18,000-20,000 words each. A poignant family history; one of Dickens' best. Bleak House (1852-53) 19 parts of 17,500-20,000 words each. A contentious lawsuit and the inequities of the legal system form the backdrop for one of Dickens' darkest novels. Hard Times (1854) 20 parts of 4,000-5,000 words each. A tragedy unfolds in industrial Coketown in Dickens' shortest novel. Little Dorrit (1855-57) In preparation. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) 6 parts of 14,500-16,500 words each. The six existing serial parts of Dickens' unfinished final novel.   Arthur Conan Doyle, British adventure novelist (1859-1930) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) 9 parts of 6,000-8,000 words each. The third of the Sherlock Holmes novels, and the first to be published in serial format. The Lost World (1912) 8 parts of 6,000-12,000 words each. The first Professor Challenger novel.   Alexandre Dumas (pere), "The King of Romance" (1802-1870) The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45) 140 parts of 2,000-5,000 words each. Revenge and adventure in Marseilles, Rome, and Paris. The Three Musketeers (1844) In preparation.   Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American suffragist (1860-1936) What Diantha Did (1909-10) 14 parts of 3,000-6,000 words each. This novel examines the "servant problem" of Gilman's day from a feminist perspective. Herland (1915) 12 parts of 4,000-4,500 words each. Gilman's most famous novel, a utopian story of a society composed entirely of women.   H. Rider Haggard, English adventure novelist (1856-1925) Marie (1911-12) 6 parts of 15,000-20,000 words each. Romance and African history mix in the first volume of Haggard's Zulu trilogy.   Henry James, American novelist (1843-1916) Washington Square (1880) 6 parts of 10,000-12,000 words each. A young man changes the lives of a New York family.   Herman Melville, American novelist (1819-1891) Benito Cereno (1855) 3 parts of 10,000-11,000 words each. A nautical mystery from one of America's greatest writers. Israel Potter (1854-55) 9 parts of 5,000-10,000 words each. Melville's historical novel of the American Revolutionary War.   Publius, Pen name for James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay The Federalist (1788) 91 parts of ? words each. Arguments for the new Constitution from three of the founding fathers.   Charles Reade, British sensation novelist (1814-1884) Griffith Gaunt (1865-66) 12 parts of 10,000-12,500 words each. A classic sensation novel about a flawed man in love with a proud woman. A Perilous Secret (1844) 9 parts of 5,000-15,000 words each. Reade's last novel features a ripped-from-the-headlines ending.   Robert Louis Stevenson, British adventure novelist (1850-1894) Treasure Island (1881-82) 18 parts of 2,000-6,000 words each. One of the best-known adventure stories of all time.   William Makepeace Thackeray, English satirist (1811-1863) The Bedford-Row Conspiracy (1840) 3 parts of 5,000-7,000 words each. Two lovers cope with political and family differences in this short comic piece. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond (1841) In preparation. Vanity Fair (1847-48) 20 parts of 12,000-16,000 words each. Becky Sharp and her beaux lead a cast of fashionable people in Thackeray's satirical novel.   Anthony Trollope, British social novelist (1815-1882) He Knew He Was Right (1868-69) 32 parts of about 11,000 words each. A simple argument between husband and wife sets off a complex chain of events. The Way We Live Now (1874-75) In preparation.   Mark Twain, American humorist (1835-1910) Pudd'nhead Wilson (1893-94) 7 parts of 5,000-10,000 words each. A legal thriller from one of America's greatest writers. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1895-96) 13 parts of 7,000-14,000 words each. Twain published this serious novel under an assumed name because he was afraid it would not be taken seriously under his own.   Jules Verne, French adventure novelist (1828-1905) From the Earth to the Moon (1865) 16 parts of 1,500-3,000 words each. Verne's attempt to make a nineteenth-century lunar landing scientifically plausible. Around the Moon (1869) 21 parts of 1,000-3,500 words each. Parisian readers had to wait four years for this sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon."