Another visionary novel from the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau tackles the thorny issues thrown up when humankind plays God and explores notions of society and identity, bringing the mythical chimera.

This is a guide-book to joy. It is for the use of the sad, the bored, the tired, anxious, disheartened and disappointed.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century.

Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fiction.

The Land That Time Forgot is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel that starts out as a nerve-wracking wartime naval adventure but develops into the story of a unique and mysterious prehistoric lost world.

If I were asked what, in my opinion, distinguishes the thought of the present day.

We do not pretend that a man will be metamorphosed into a gentleman by reading this book.

When Robert Browning first met the ailing Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 it must have seemed to him like something from a gothic novel.

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

The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity.

A future Europe has spiraled into barbarism. The Western Hemisphere stands alone.

The runaway bestseller The Magic Story was first published in 1900 in Success Magazine. It has been constantly in print ever since.

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

The metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, written by G. K. Chesterton in 1908.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes collects together eleven stories detailing the famous exploits and adventures of Baker Street's greatest detective.

THE MIND OF JESUS! What a study is this! To attain a dim reflection of it.

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

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is the archetypal Gothic novel.

In a world in which spiritual techniques, teachers, concepts, and organizations are legion.

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