These lectures will not be concerned with history as a record of wars and political changes.

French philosopher Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution was published in 1907.

The Scottish evangelical author writer Henry Drummond argues in Natural Law in the Spiritual World.

The first point which it is necessary to make clear in describing the astral plane.

In reading this book we may begin to see that there is nothing unnatural.

There are many forms of belief - many degrees of doctrine - regarding Reincarnation.

The object of this book is to suggest certain lines of thought as to the deep truths.

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

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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse.

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

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

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

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

The String of Pearls is the first installment of the Sweeney Todd penny part serial.

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

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.

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

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