19th Century Must-Read Novels Frankenstein. The first true science fiction book ever, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, is the mother of all monster novels.

This month’s Title Search highlights 19th-century fiction with a puzzle that challenges you to find the main titles of a dozen novels hidden in a block of text. Tap or click the words when you ...

For avid readers of the 19th century, books were not easy to afford. “It’s fully half of a week’s wage of your standard middle class person in Victorian England, and it would have been an ...