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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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