Tag: Sensation

Lady Audley's Secret

Fiction Novel

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...

Lady Audley's Secret

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The Woman in White

Fantasy Crime Novel

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...

The Woman in White

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Wilkie Collins

The Beetle

Horror Novel

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 Beetle

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Richard Marsh

Parva Naturalia

History Philosophy

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...

Parva Naturalia

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Aristotle

Poor Miss Finch

Romance Novel

Poor Miss Finch is a novel about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers.

Poor Miss Finch

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Wilkie Collins

I, Mary MacLane

Memoir Non-Fiction

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...

I, Mary MacLane

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Mary MacLane

Rose in Bloom

Novel

It depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. It is Alcott's sequel to Eight Cousins.

Rose in Bloom

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Louisa May Alcott

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

Philosophy Non-Fiction

Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. H...

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

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George Santayana

Old and New Masters

Essays

Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw... these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: some well...

Old and New Masters

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Robert Lynd

An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense

Science

"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...

An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense

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Thomas Reid

A Strange World

Novel

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...

A Strange World

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The Girl From Malta

Fiction Novel

During a voyage from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith is fascinated by fellow-traveller, Lionel Ventin. One sultry evening, shortly before arrivi...

The Girl From Malta

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Fergus Hume

Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation

Psychology

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...

Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation

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Carl Gustav Jung

Taken at the Flood

Novel

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...

Taken at the Flood

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Little Masterpieces of Science - Mind

Essays

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...

Little Masterpieces of Science - Mind

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George Iles

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