In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women.
While Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, his 1897 novel Dracula has been the defining force in the popularity and evolution of vampire mythology today.
Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina.
Ancient Hindu scriptures proclaim that some "longing in the darkness" propelled our world.
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life places before the reader in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works.
Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society.
Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872.
The object of this book is to suggest certain lines of thought as to the deep truths.
Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.
American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.
American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.
G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.
Ethics is a philosophical book written by Benedictus de Spinoza.
Charles Wesley Emerson's book The Evolution of Expression was a central text in the Monroe.
The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse.
English author and literary critic D. H. Lawrence writes in Fantasia of the Unconscious.
Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Quill hits the jackpot according to Liam and Kevin, when he hacks into secret files detailing joint.
Following the Equator is an account by Mark Twain of his travels through the British Empire in 1895.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19.