What Is the Real Secret of Obtaining Desirable Possessions?Are some people born under a lucky star or other charm which enables them to have all that which seems so desirable, and...

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social...

The renowned prophet Nostradamus (Michel de Nostradame) was born on December 14, 1503 in St. Remy, Provence, France. Nostradamus came from a long line of Jewish doctors and...

"Samuel the Seeker" by Upton Sinclair is a novel about a broke young man, Samuel Prescott, and his life in a small upstate New York town called "Lockmanville."

A young Englishman witnesses a murder committed in a deserted house, a murder of such a nature that presents the murderer as a supernatural being.Was the murder really the work of...

The little book by Epictetus called Enchiridion or “manual” has played a disproportionately large role in the rise of modern attitudes and modern philosophy. As soon...

Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty. John Stuart Mill's complete and...

This volume presents two books by Frederic W. H. Myers, founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and one of the most influential writers in everything related to...

Favorites for nearly 100 years, these classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead Anne Shirley, who comes to stay at Green Gables and wins the hearts of everyone...

What Newspapers Have Said About Elsie Benedict and Her Work "Over fifty thousand people heard Elsie Lincoln Benedict at the City Auditorium during her six weeks lecture...