For those who would aspire to the gift of pure vision, and in whom the faculty is striving.

Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire's novel Zadig, or The Book of Fate skillfully weaves the story.

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop.

The New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land.

The City of the Sun is an important early utopian work by Italian philosopher Tommaso Campanella.

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories.

Dubbed The Wickedest Man In the World, Aleister Crowley is best known for his occult writings.

Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative study.

The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle.

The mind is one thing - a unit. All the various faculties act together constantly.

Utilitarianism is philosopher John Stuart Mill's defense and advocacy of utilitarian ethics.

John Stuart Mill used Considerations on Representative Government to call for reforms to Parliament and voting,

John Stuart Mill (1806 1873) was a great liberal thinker of the nineteenth century.

John Stuart Mill's 1869 essay The Subjection of Women argues for equality between the sexes.

A Treatise of Human Nature, first published between 1739 and 1740, is a philosophical text.

A enthralling story about the inequalities of the 19th-century English legal system.

Widely considered the first gothic novel, and indeed an initiator of the whole genre.

Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company.

The Portrait of a Lady is perhaps Henry James' greatest novel.