'Njal's Saga' is rightly famous as one of the most heroic, and most poignant, of all the Icelandi...

The 'Pistis Sophia' is arguably the most important Gnostic document we possess. Dated as early as...

Helen Keller is a name associated with success in overcoming the many challenges faced by the dea...

'The Analects of Confucius' has had the most profound effect on Chinese Society, and influenced m...

H G Wells is one of the 'fathers' of Science Fiction. His novel 'The First Men in the Moon' chron...

German philosopher and philologist, Friedrich Nietzsche, was one of the most influential thinkers...

This colourful edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem 'The Song of Hiawatha' is specia...

Originally collected from German peasantry in the early 1800's, Grimm's Fairy Tales are known and...

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Chuang Tzu (pinyin: Zhuangzi) is the name given to an enigmatic Daoist sage who was born around 3...

Although it is now an acknowledged literary masterpiece, James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist a...

From the time of the founding of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, over a hundred years ago,...

'The Secret Garden' tells the tale of ten year old Mary Lennox, a mean-tempered little girl, igno...

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's book is ostensibly a work of science fiction.It deals with an underground ...

D. H. Lawrence's skill at dissecting human emotions and conflicting thoughts lends a depth to his...

Born at Ekaterinoslav in Southern Russia, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (née von Hahn) contracted an ...

Charlotte Stetson Gilman was known as a crusading feminist intellectual, concerned especially wit...

Leo Tolstoy is famous the world over for his epic novels of Russian history and society. But duri...

Written at the time of the Russian February 1917 Revolution, before the Bolshevik take-over in Oc...

Published in 1898 and never out of print since that time, 'The War of the Worlds' is one of the m...

When first initiated into Freemasonry, very few candidates are aware of the number of Degrees or ...

This first collection of Emerson's essays has influenced a host of thinkers and intellectuals sin...

From Ritual to Romance is Jessie Weston's landmark study of the legends surrounding the mysteriou...

Evelyn Underhill was a brilliant scholar who spent many years researching the history and literat...

Charles Webster Leadbeater was an ordained Anglican priest who left his Church to follow the spir...

Charles Webster Leadbeater was inducted into the Theosophical Society in London on November 21, 1...

Charles Webster Leadbeater is regarded as one of the most important of the twentieth century's wr...

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Utilitarianism

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Benedictus de Spinoza's ground-breaking philosophy made him a controversial figure of 17th centur...

The early Christian Fathers such as Jude respected The Book of Enoch, as did the Essenes of Qumra...

This is Lenin's seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years ...

John Stuart Mill was a child prodigy who, in adulthood, embraced social change, advocating the ab...

The Rosicrucian Brotherhood traces its origin to the 14th century, and claims to be heir to occul...

The son of a London merchant, Thomas Browne settled in Norwich in 1637, practising medicine and i...

This classic of devotional literature was written sometime in the late seventeenth century. Its a...

'The Gambler' must be considered at least a semi-autobiographical novel, as Dostoyevsky was himse...

Written in 1177, 'The Conference of Birds' is a Muslim mystical allegory dealing with the struggl...

Occult Science is Rudolf Steiner's term for the ancient Way of Initiation, and in this book he sh...

Mary AnneEvanstook the pen name George Eliot to prevent her being pigeon-holed as an author of'li...

Cornelius Tacitus (c. 55-c. 117 AD) was a Roman aristocrat, senator and historian, who lived at a...

'The Most Holy Trinosophia' is an esoteric book of reputedly great power. It is said to have been...

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. His early years, lived among exotic sights and sounds...

Born in 1673, at Montfort sur Meu in north-west France, St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort was t...

Thomas Paine was an English reformer who emigrated to the American Colonies and in 1776 published...

The most popular and widely read of all Buddhist texts, the Dhammapada, (Path of the Eternal Trut...