A GREAT BOOK is a living organism. Months, years, or centuries may go into its gestation.
We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.
Darkness and Dawn is a science fiction trilogy by George Allan England.
The Second Deluge is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss.
The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.
Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination.
This book is written with the object of laying before the public a cookery book.
The horror novel The Lair of the White Worm, also titled The Garden of Evil.
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.
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.