A founding member of the Theosophical Society, and perhaps the first well-known European.

Wylder's Hand is a novel from Gothic and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

The spirit of simplicity is a great magician.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile.

Maugham wrote The Magician after meeting the famous magician and occultist Aleister Crowly in Paris.

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.

The Cloud upon the Sanctuary is a work of Christian mysticism written in 1909.

The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.

The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally recognized.

You can acquire valuable knowledge for use in your own public speaking.

Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled.

British writer Edith Maude Hull was best known for her classic romantic novel.

Considered the first in-depth critique of consumerism, economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book.

The Ancient Greek Euripides wrote the play Hippolytus, a tragedy based on the myth.

William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel.

First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate.

Agrave rebours, Against the Grain or Against Nature in English.

The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and first published in 1819.

Whether the evolution of the human mind from the animal was by insensible gradations.

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is the archetypal Gothic novel.