books by victor hugo , mary shelley , robert lewis stevenson , leo tolstoy , anne and charlotte and emily bronte , herman melville , jules verne , jane austen , washington irving , richard henry dana jr. , alexandar dumas , hans christian andersen , louisa may alcott , harriet beecher stowe , benjamin disraeli , louis carroll , john milton , john bunyan , daniel defoe , jonathon swift , thomas paine , and others lesser known so weighed down the two bookcases that rods father had placed a four-inch by four-inch by ten-foot post underneath the floor where the books stood .