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Fabulous wealth, literary fame, exile, an amazing come back to the height of political power and a tragic ending – the life of Lucius Annaeus Seneca - aka Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca – is one of the great untold stories of Ancient Rome. In The Stoic, Francis Holland presents a riveting...

John Marshall’s A Short History of Greek Philosophy spans the time between Thales of Milete up till the Stoics, covering  School of Miletes (Thales et al), Pythagoras, The Eleatics (Xenophanes et al), The Atomists, The sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, The Sceptics and Epicureans and Zeno and...

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a literary celebrity in his lifetime and remains one of the most translated authors in the world (Currently ranked #26). He was a novelist, poet and a prolific travel writer in an age when moving across nations was arduous and fraught...

Viking longships and magic amulets. Shape-shifting elves, warrior princes and fire-breathing dragons. Welcome to the epic poetry of the North Atlantic. Welcome to THE SAGAS! Saga Six Pack brings together six classic sagas: Beowulf The Prose Edda The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue and...

“Teach us Your real secret, Master! how to become invisible, how to acquire love, and oh! beyond all, how to make gold.”  Fans of Aleister Crowley are in for a treat. Included in this second volume of Crowley’s Collected Works:  WHITE STAINS  "My essential spirituality is made...

Magic swords and mighty longships. Treacherous maidens and invisible elves. A powerful gold ring. SAGA SIX PACK 2 presents another awesome collection of classic adventure tales from the North Atlantic: The Poetic Edda The Nibelungenlied Saga of Thorstein Fridthjof the Bold Ingolf’s Saga King...

The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton first published by Cassell and Company in 1922. The book contains twelve mystery stories, the first eight of which are about The Man Who Knew Too Much, while the final four are individual...

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have made...

Fans of the new Showtime series ‘Penny Dreadful’ are in for a treat with this Penny Dreadful Double Bill! A ‘grim governess’ two-pack from either side of the Victorian Atlantic ... ‘The Turn of the Screw’ by Henry James “The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently...

The new hit movie The Revenant is based on the life of American pirate, frontiersman, fur trapper, fur trader, hunter, and explorer Hugh Glass  (c. 1780 – 1833) who once made his way crawling and stumbling 200 miles (320 km) to Fort Kiowa, in South Dakota, after being abandoned without supplies...

The new hit movie Love and Friendship is based on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, an early epistolary work by the author of Pride and Prejudice which she never submitted for publication. Lady Susan was eventually published posthumously in 1871 and has since become a classic alongside Sense and Sensibility,...

Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest literary success during his lifetime was the January 1845 publication of The Raven. Noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere, the poem tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness....

“There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula The greatest and most famous vampire novel of all time DRACULA has inspired countless adaptations —none with the same power to quicken...

Fans of the new Showtime series ‘Penny Dreadful’ are in for a treat with this Penny Dreadful Double Bill. ‘The Strange Bed’ by Wilkie Collins The author of ‘The Moonstone’ and ‘The Woman In White’ was a frequent contributor to Household Words, the popular Victorian literary...