Blackmore Dennett: 167 books

Locked up for the night, a man will discover the difference between waxen grotesqueries and the real thing...

We may think and talk about civilization as one pattern or level of culture, one stage through which human life flows and ebbs. In that sense we may regard it abstractly and historically, as we regard the most recent ice age or the long and painful record of large-scale chattel slavery...

Algernon Blackwood's classic tale of adventure, in which twin brothers diverge in their journey to the ends of the Earth. A masterpiece of fiction by a masterful author!

The story of "Ivar the Viking" depicts the actual life of Norse chiefs who ruled at the period therein described, and also gives the customs, religion, life, and mode of thinking which prevailed among the people. My object in writing this story is to give a view, in a popular way, of the...

The Data of Ethics is a fascinating exploration of the concepts of good and bad conduct, that looks at the problem from sociological, psychological, and biological viewpoints.

"Jesus, the Last Great Initiate" is an esoteric look at the life of Jesus, here considered the ultimate of a long line of 'Initiates.' Edouard Schure was a French author who influenced Rudolph Steiner, the German founder of Anthroposophy. Steiner also viewed Christ as both an historical individual and as a manifestation of the divine in the human realm.

Charles Haskins weaves a fantastically informative history of the Norman civilization. A must-read for anyone interested in medieval history and modern European history.  History of the Normans features: The Coming Of The Northmen Normandy And England The Norman Empire Normandy And France Norman Life And Culture The Normans In The South and The Norman Kingdom Of Sicily

The Moon Endureth, subtitled 'Tales and Fancies', is a 1912 short story and poetry collection by the Scottish author John Buchan. In its review of the first edition The Athenaeum noted "a marked leaning towards the mysterious and bizzare". The collection was said to show "considerable imagination, and occasionally a touch of delicate satire".

They were purged as if they had passed through the Furnace of the Sages governed with Wisdom that the alchemists know. They spoke without much difficulty of what they had seen, or had seemed to see, with their eyes, but hardly at all of what their hearts had known when for a moment the glory of the fiery rose had been about them.

This book needs only brief introduction. It attempts to tell the story of the origin of the Evolution idea in Ionia, and, after long arrest, of the revival of that idea in modern times, when its profound and permanent influence on thought in all directions, and, therefore, on human relations and conduct,...

Called "Geimer" in it's original German, this novel of the fall of the Vandal Kingdom in Africa is a very dramatic story, with all the contrasts which make for the popularity of stories of the decadent Roman period. In essence it is a tragedy of tragedies, the bloody destruction of the whole...

The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman Humanitas and the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that of Protagoras, who said that "Man is the measure of all things." This new thinking became manifest in art,...

Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor the keen brilliancy of Monsieur Lecoq. Muller is a...

"The Jad God" is a strange and mysterious tale about a jade god that seems to reach out and exert a powerful influence over events. In his story, Alan Sullivan incorporates telepathy and the atmosphere of the East to create his mystery novel.