The novel belongs to a genre that became very popular during that era. Known as “sensation novels” they can probably be equated to today's pulp fictio...
The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely reg...
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shi...
The Parva Naturalia are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of...
Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a young child, and at the age of 8, her stepfather moved t...
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. H...
Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw... these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: some well...
"That excellent book by Thomas Reid, the Inquiry into the Human Mind (first edition, 1764; 6th edition, 1810), as a negative proof of the Kantian trut...
A compelling story by one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian "sensational novel" serves up the perfect blend of murder, greed, madness, sec...
During a voyage from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith is fascinated by fellow-traveller, Lionel Ventin. One sultry evening, shortly before arrivi...
Psychological Types is a book by Carl Jung that was originally published in German by Rascher Verlag in 1921, and translated into English in 1923, bec...
Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man she adores...
This is the essays that delves into the mysteries of the human mind. Written in the late 19th century, this book explores the nature of the mind and i...
The mystery deepens in the Canadian wilderness, as a young woman races to save her half-sister from a dangerous and powerful enemy.
In Mount Royal Vo...
The stakes are higher than ever in the final volume of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's suspenseful mystery novel, as a young woman races against time to save...
"Can love truly die? Or does it linger on, even after death, to haunt the living?"
In this novel, Mary Elizabeth Braddon explores the themes of love,...
When young and enigmatic Edward Wyllard inherits his family's ancestral home, he is met with a chilling discovery - a cold case that has haunted the W...
