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

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.

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft.

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.

This book is written with the object of laying before the public a cookery book.

Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination.

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.

Darkness and Dawn is a science fiction trilogy by George Allan England.

We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.

A GREAT BOOK is a living organism. Months, years, or centuries may go into its gestation.

Winesburg, Ohio is a series of loosely linked short stories set in the fictional town.

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.