At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.

The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, following Critique of Pure Reason.

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

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

Advertising is to business, what hands are to a clock. It is a direct.

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

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.

Considered by critics to be one of the best tragedies of the English Renaissance.

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

A founding member of the Theosophical Society, and perhaps the first well-known European.

It is 1750 and Daniel, the 10-year-old foundling living with Dick Bates is worried. Dick is the owner of the Peacock Alehouse in White Cross Street, Islington.

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

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.

The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers.

Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle.

This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.

Must religion and morals go together? Can one be taught without the other?

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which Franklin himself called his Memoirs.