British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies-he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" ...

“All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.” —Johann ...

He's one of the most debated writers of the 19th century: Nietzsche and his works have been by turns vilified, lauded, and subjected to numerous contradictory ...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is Edward Gibbon's magnum opus, written and published over a 13-year period beginning in 1776. ...

In 16 concise chapters, Rudolf Steiner reveals how we can look through the material veil of this world and glimpse the world of the spirit. With meditation ...

Inspired by biblical teachings and influenced by the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson, H. Emilie Cady's Lessons in Truth has sold more than 1.5 million copies ...

Author names not noted above: Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller Originally published between 1909 and 1917 ...

As interest in 19th-century English literature by women has been reinvigorated by a resurgence in popularity of the works of Jane Austen, readers are rediscovering ...

“What shall we do with our America? How are we likely to get the more creative America—by confining our imaginations to the ideal of the melting-pot ...

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a ...