Considered the first in-depth critique of consumerism, economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book.

You can acquire valuable knowledge for use in your own public speaking.

The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally recognized.

The spirit of simplicity is a great magician.

Wylder's Hand is a novel from Gothic and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

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

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

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.

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.

Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for.

H. P. Blavatsky, or Madame Blavatsky, was a founder of Theosophy.

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

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

Anticipations: Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought.

When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense.

The Bible is one of the two or three oldest books in the world, but unlike most of the ancient books.