Three greats of classic literature: Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, Mark Twain

To me, the terms "classic fiction" and "literature" include mostly older works, those published in the 19th and early 20th centuries ... and a few that are much older than that. Some of them border on other genres, but those genres didn't really exist yet when these books were written. I'm not much for the classics, but I have a few: