Maugham wrote The Magician after meeting the famous magician and occultist Aleister Crowly in Paris.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile.

Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863.

Sacred Books of the East includes selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta.

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments.

The horror novel The Lair of the White Worm, also titled The Garden of Evil.

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

The Second Deluge is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss.

Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu.

Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887.

Browning's dramatic poem The Ring and the Book narrates the trial of a Roman for the death.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.

In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women.

Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name.

Life is a Dream is a play about free will and fate.

Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.

The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family.

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

Trips to the Moon collects together three works by the Assyrian master of rhetoric and satire.