American novelist and designer Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco after the end of World War I.

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist.

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent social theorist of the Victorian era.

Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words.

A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.

A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography.

Wrong thinking produces inharmony in our body, which in turn produces sickness.

The foundation of all true knowledge of God must be a clear mental apprehension.

Charles Wesley Emerson's book The Evolution of Expression was a central text in the Monroe.

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian era.

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

Philosopher, logician, mathematician, social reformer and historian, the renowned Nobel Prize winner.

The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, weaves through its poetic verses the life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.

Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin.

I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater, and have suffered.

The mind can only be conquered by regular meditation, by deciding beforehand.

The aim of literary study is not to amuse the hours of leisure.