There was a documentary on tv recently about the origins of the English novel. I made a note of the novels discussed so that I could read them (some I have already read):
Robinson Crusoe (1714) by Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders (1722) by Daniel Defoe
Gullivers Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
Pamela (1740) by Samuel Richardson
Clarissa (1748) by Samuel Richardson
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
Tristram Shandy (1759) by Lawrence Sterne
The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole
Evelina (1778) by Frances Burney
Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin
all about forcing bulbs to have a garden withindoors