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1) Love Eternal
Renowned as one of the most skilled action-adventure novelists ever to set pen to paper, fans and critics alike love H. Rider Haggard's ability to concoct a perfect blend of romance and pulse-pounding suspense. In Love Eternal, Haggard is at the peak of his form, skillfully weaving fascinating questions about reincarnation and mortality into a thrilling action tale.
H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica, first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues of the time. It's heroine goes from being a naive young girl into becoming a picture of the New Woman. The novel caused a stir when it was released because of the main character's feminist outlook and because her name was similar to Amber Reeves, with whom Wells was thought to be having an affair.
One of H. G. Wells' first ventures outside of the science fiction realm, the novel Love and Mr. Lewisham was published in the year 1900. Seeking love rather than his youthful hopes of fame and glory, Mr. Lewisham moves to the city of London where he becomes convinced of the merits of socialism and gets involved in the spiritual charlatanism of that later Victorian era.
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