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

The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.

The String of Pearls is the first installment of the Sweeney Todd penny part serial.

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

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding.

A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father.

First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories.

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.

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

Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, after Jane Eyre.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon.

The spirit of simplicity is a great magician.

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

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

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

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.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.