Philosophy

Foundational works of human thought — ethics, logic, metaphysics, and wisdom.

Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical PsychologyWilliam Walker Atkinson

★3.6

PhilosophyPsychology

Practical Mind-Reading / A Course of Lessons on Thought-Transference, Telepathy, Mental-Currents, Mental Rapport, &c.William Walker Atkinson

★3.6

PhilosophyPsychology

Essays in Radical EmpiricismWilliam James

★4.0

PoetryPhilosophy

Demoniality; or, Incubi and SuccubiLudovico Maria Sinistrari

★3.6

FantasyHistory

China and the ChineseEdmond Plauchut

★3.7

HistoryPhilosophy

China and the ChineseHerbert Allen Giles

★3.5

PhilosophyHistory

Letters of Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero

★3.9

FictionHistory

Views of nature: or Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation / with scientific illustrationsAlexander von Humboldt

★3.8

FictionScience & Nature

Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 1 of 2) / with scientific elucidationsAlexander von Humboldt

★3.8

FictionPhilosophy

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's DuelJohn Donne

★4.0

FictionHistory

George Bernard ShawG. K. Chesterton

★3.7

BiographyFiction

George Bernard Shaw: His PlaysH. L. Mencken

★3.1

BiographyFiction

Democracy and Social EthicsJane Addams

★3.9

PhilosophyPolitical Science

The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood / Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, KnightRamon Llull

★4.0

HistoryPhilosophy

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielHenri Frédéric Amiel

★4.2

BiographyPhilosophy

Ptolemy's TetrabiblosPtolemy

★4.0

FictionHistory

Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old FaceCharles Kingsley

★3.4

FictionHistorical Fiction

The Deserted VillageOliver Goldsmith

★3.5

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Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation / With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica StevensThomas More

★4.1

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Letters to His Son, 1746-47 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a GentlemanEarl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

★4.1

FictionHistory

Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespearegraf Leo Tolstoy

★3.6

EssaysFiction

Psychology: Briefer CourseWilliam James

★4.0

FictionPhilosophy

A serious proposal to the Ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (In Two Parts)Mary Astell

★3.6

HistoryFiction

The Philosophy of Beards / A Lecture Physiological, Artistic & HistoricalThomas S. Gowing

★3.1

FictionPhilosophy