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Ten days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly, may not be your average work of classic litetrature - it is actually non-fiction. I include it, however, in the Classics Club, because of the tremendous impact it had on people - just like some of the world-renowned works of literature ...
This has been a revelation to me, in more ways than one: a woman reporter, in Victorian time, decides to commit herself in an asylum in order to reveal the way these institutions worked. Her courageous work resulted in an official investigation taking place and a USD 1 million funding to be allocated to the improvement of these services.
