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James Joyce's writings centre on the city of Dublin, where he was born into a middle-class family in 1882. Despite this preoccupation, he left Dublin for the continent in 1904 and spent most of his...

Charles Webster Leadbeater was an ordained Anglican priest who left his Church to follow the spiritual disciplines and teachings of the Theosophical Society. In 1883 he traveled to India and...

The most widely read of all Buddhist texts, the Dhammapada encapsulates the core of Buddhist philosophy. It comprises 423 verses grouped by themes deemed important for the attainment of Nirvana, the...

St Catherine was born in 1347 at Siena in northern Italy. The 25th child of a wood dyer, she began seeing visions at the age of 6, and throughout her life experienced mystical appearances of Christ,...

The Double charts the psychological collapse of Yakov Golyadkin, an awkward, angst-ridden office-worker in St Petersburg. Golyadkin suddenly becomes aware that his office contains a Double of...

In this, the second sequel to her best-selling 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', Baroness Orczy gives us a glimpse into the Pimpernel's past, and pits her hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, against his would-be...

The Ethics : Translated by R. H. M. Elwes, with Commentary & Biography of Spinoza by J. Ratner (Aziloth Books).Author: Benedict De SpinozaPublisher: Aziloth BooksPublication Date: Dec 10, 2020Number...

Although Henry James was himself none too fond of 'The Europeans', the novel has nevertheless proved to be a firm favourite with readers ever since its publication in 1878. The juxtaposition of two...

H G Wells is one of the 'fathers' of Science Fiction. His novel 'The First Men in the Moon' chronicles humanity's first faltering steps to the stars. The story uses a human-meets-alien adventure to...

A. E. Mason's classic tale of British Officer Harry Feversham's epic fight to redeem his name after receiving four white feathers - symbols of cowardice - from 3 comrades and his fiancee. A story of...

'The Gambler' must be considered at least a semi-autobiographical novel, as Dostoyevsky was himself addicted to games of chance. It is famous, not just for its literary merit, but for the numerous...

Cornelius Tacitus (c. 55-c. 117 AD) was a Roman aristocrat, senator and historian, who lived at a time when the Roman Empire was expanding at a prodigious rate. More than half of Tacitus' writings...

Margaret Murray was an anthropologist who upset the comfortable consensus of her day with the idea that Western Europe did not convert 'en masse' to Christianity. Using contemporary accounts she was...

In 'The Good Soldier' Ford uses the theme of adultery among his four main characters to examine the basis of social reality, the difference between 'normal' and 'strange', between what is 'good' and...

Leo Tolstoy is famous the world over for his epic novels of Russian history and society. But during the last 30 years of his life Tolstoy devoted himself to spiritual matters in an attempt to return...

When first published in 1894, Arthur Machen's novella The Great God Pan was scorned by the critics, who inveighed against its decadent sexual content. But there is much more to this tale: a timeless...

Charles Webster Leadbeater was inducted into the Theosophical Society in London on November 21, 1883. A year later he left for India with Madame H. P. Blavatsky, where he underwent training in...

The House of Mirth follows the career and final downfall of Lily Bart, a society beauty in turn-of-the-century New York, whose financial security stands on very shaky ground. In a culture where money...

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854, the son of William and Lady Francesca Wilde, both noted intellectuals in the city. Educated first at Trinity College, Dublin, and then Magdalen College,...

Charles Webster Leadbeater is regarded as one of the most important of the twentieth century's writers on Theosophy. A competent seer and teacher, the series of lectures which comprise Volumes I and...

Charles Webster Leadbeater is regarded as one of the most important of the twentieth century's writers on Theosophy. A competent seer and teacher, the series of lectures which comprise this book were...

One of the earliest personal stories of a black slave in the eighteenth century being kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold to servitude in the West Indies and American colonies. After buying his...

'The Interior Castle' is a classic of Christian mysticism, written with some reluctance by its author, St Teresa of Avila. The saint spent most of her life as a Carmelite nun, and was noted for her...

The Invisible Man tells explores the dark side of Science, of research gone horribly wrong. Rendered invisible by his experiments, the bandage-swaddled Griffin seeks solitude in a village inn and...

The Island of Dr Moreau is both an exciting adventure story, and H G Wells' prescient critique of the dangers of Science shorn of all emotion, of research driven only by a cold intellectual curiosity...

In this, the fifth and final Richard Hannay adventure, John Buchan makes his hero an older, wiser and more yielding character (the book was written a full decade after the fourth Hannay novel). The...

The Jungle Books: With Over 55 Original Illustrations (Aziloth Books)Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Aziloth BooksPublication Date: September 08, 2014Number of Pages: 258 pagesLanguage:...

Author: NaPublisher: Aziloth BooksPublication Date: Apr 03, 2013Number of Pages: 212 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1909735019ISBN-13: 9781909735019

Born at Ekaterinoslav in Southern Russia, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (n?e von Hahn) contracted an unconsummated marriage at 17, and spent the next quarter of a century in a variety of adventures,...

Leo Tolstoy was born into a Russian aristocratic family in 1828, and rose to be the foremost novelist of his time, penning such classics as 'War and Peace', and 'Anna Karenina'. Prosperous and...