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The Spiritual Life describes "the great truths concerning man's spiritual life in simple language," while the Spiral Path charts the Christian path of 15 mysteries followed in the soul's ascent to...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' is a semi-autobiographical short story drawing on Charlotte Gilman's personal experience of mental collapse, exacerbated by the paternalistic attitudes current in her day, a...

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. Apprenticed to a printer, he left home at 17 and lived as a freelance typesetter, with stints as a steamboat...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the son of a Genevan watchmaker who became one of the foremost French writers and political theorists of the Enlightenment, penning such classics as 'The Social Contract'...

In 'A Doll's House', Ibsen questions the subservience of married women and their role in the family. The play follows the development of Nora, whose life of wifely comfort and apparent careless...

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester, England, the daughter of a prosperous store owner. The death of her father led to financial ruin and in 1865 her mother moved the family to...

A widely acknowledged masterpiece, James Joyce's book tells of Stephen Dedalus' journey of self-discovery as he battles to discover meaning and 'a voice' as a budding artist. Joyce attempts to break...

Laurence Sterne was born into poverty in 18th century Ireland, but managed to study at Cambridge University by working a servitor to other, richer students. His novel/memoir 'A Sentimental Journey'...

Born in Argentina in 1841, William Henry Hudson grew up in that boisterous, lawless land of wild animals and even wilder desperados. He wrote about both, from recondite papers in 'Proc'eedings of the...

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote 'A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women' in 1792, partly in response to the French 'Rights of Man' and their 'progressive' suggestion that women should be educated - but only...

Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade's 18th Century work of spiritual direction, 'Abandonment to Divine Providence', has rightly become a classic of Christian literature. Divided into two parts, the French...

Cockren gives a brief history of alchemy, detailing some of the art's notable adepts. Extraction of the alchemical 'seeds' or vital essences of various metals is described and, too, the medical...

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is the world's first surrealist book, written in 1865, at a time when the word surrealism had not yet been invented. The author of this dream-like fantasy, full of...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is a dream-like fantasy story for children and adults alike, full of anthropomorphic creatures, puns and zany logic. The world famous surrealist tale has "lots of...

In the early 1800s Thomas Sopwith spent four years in and around Alston Moor, high in the North Pennines of England. A keen traveller, geologist and antiquarian, he made three major journeys across...

Occult Science is Rudolf Steiner's term for the ancient Way of Initiation, and in this book he shows that an objective description of the spiritual experience, (one quite as balanced as the findings...

Anna of the Five Towns' tells the story of Anna Tellwright, who lives a miserable existence under her miserly father. Bennett's prose evokes the bleak environment of the potteries as Anna inherits...

Wilkie Collins' novel 'Basil' is regarded as the inspiration for the later 'sensation novel' and ultimately today's 'detective genre'. The book produced a furore when first published in 1852, Shocked...

A stirring tale of heroism, monsters and battle, 'Beowulf' is famous as the first epic poem in English literature. Written down sometime in the 7th century, an oral version of the poem was probably...

'Black Beauty' is the absorbing tale of a fine, spirited colt who begins life with a sympathetic owner in an idyllic country setting. Told from the point of view of the horse itself, the book follows...

This occult tale of esoteric initiation is rightly renowned for its description of the Western mystical tradition, skillfully sheathed within an enthralling adventure story. Set in Napoleonic times,...

Bushido' is Nitobe Inazo's attempt to explain Japan to the western mind via the tenets of its samurai warriors. The book has remained a best-seller since publication in 1900. Enhanced with 14...

Rafael Sabatini's riveting tale of Doctor Peter Blood, wrongly convicted of treason and sent as a slave to Barbados, who escapes to become the Terror of the Caribbean. A well-researched,...

Captains Courageous is Rudyard Kipling's only American adventure story. Rich, spoilt Harvey Cheyne falls from a cruise ship, is rescued by a fishing boat, and spends three dangerous months at sea as...

This work is a powerful argument for Christianity as a religion of mystical initiation and the only religion in which the eternal wisdom, the Logos, was made flesh - in Christ. Moreover, unlike the...

The Chuang Tzu is one of the key foundational works of Chinese Daoism, preaching non-contention, non-intention, simplicity and humility as the path to perfect equanimity amidst life's turmoil. The...

In 1776 Adam Weishaupt, a respected German professor of Canon Law, founded a covert revolutionary group - The Illuminati - a secret society dedicated to destroying repressive regimes and shaping a...

Thomas Paine was born at Thetford, England, in 1737. The son of a corset-maker, he spent just six years in formal education, yet despite these social disadvantages he became one of the foremost...

Written in 1821, 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' brought literary fame and not a little notoriety to Thomas de Quincy. It blew the lid on widespread opium addiction in Regency England,...

Coningsby is a political novel set against a background of real events in England following the enactment of the Reform Bill in 1832. The story follows the fortunes of an aristocratic orphan, Harry...