Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments.

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft.

Sacred Books of the East includes selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta.

Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863.

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon.

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip.

A young man, Olenin, is stationed in the Caucasus, where he falls in love with the place.

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

Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, after Jane Eyre.

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.

First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories.

First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories.

A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father.

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding.

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