Chapters include: The Early Races; The Egyptians, Chaldeans, Druids, Etc; The Romans And Greeks; The Jews, Essenes, And Early Christians; The Hindus; The Modern West; Between And Beyond Incarnations; The Justice Of Reincarnation; The Argument For Reincarnation; The Proofs Of Reincarnation; Arguments Against Reincarnation; and, The Law Of Karma.

Extract from the beginning of the book:“It was now exactly seven months since the balloon voyagers had been thrown on Lincoln Island. During that time, notwithstanding the researches they had made, no human being had been discovered. No smoke even had betrayed the presence of man on the surface of the island. No vestiges of his handiwork showed that either at an early or at a late period had man lived there. Not only did it now appear to be uninhabited by any but themselves, but the coloni...

***Murder in a Cornish Alehouse***is the third in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series. Rosamond, the estranged foster daughter of Susanna, Lady Appleton (the sleuth in the Face Down Mystery series) is grown up and married to Rob Jaffrey, the son of Lady Appleton's steward and housekeeper. The story begins when Rosamond and Rob travel to Cornwall to investigate the death of Rosamond's stepfather, Sir Walter Pendennis. It was ruled an accident, but was it? The year is 1584, and tr...

Germinal is a French writer Émile Zola novel. The story is set in France during the second industrial revolution. The plot takes place in the mining area of northern France and describes the hard life of the miners of the second industrial revolution, as well as the political organization of the working class and the trade union. As a premonition, the novel preceded by decades the mining disaster of Courrières where miners lost their lives in 1099.

From the Preface: 'IN December, 1901, William Walker Atkinson in assuming the editorship of the popular magazine New Thought, introduced himself to the readers of that periodical in a memorable article. That article contained a clear, ringing, forceful statement of his individual creed, than which nothing can afford a deeper insight into the character and inner self of the man whose name appears as author of this book.

First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book "a very intimate revelation. . . . I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour's confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that l...

In Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham turns the literary world into a stage for wit, vanity, and social performance. The narrator's cool skepticism is established at once, whether he is brushing off an urgent summons from the celebrated Alroy Kear or observing Kear's polished authority over a quiet London lunch. Around club rooms, servants, and carefully managed conversation, Maugham exposes the irony beneath elegance and the emptiness that can hide behind public confidence. Yet the novel ...

This is a translation of an abridged version of the Garuda Purana. The Garuda Purana is one of the Vishnu Puranas. It is a part of Vaishnavism literature corpus, primarily centering around Hindu god Vishnu but praises all gods. Composed in Sanskrit, the earliest version of the text may have been composed in the 1st millennium CE, but it was likely expanded and changed over a long period of time. It is in the form of a dialog between Vishnu and Garuda, the King of Birds.

Fully illustrated. Heidi is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Dete's sister and brother-in-law). Dete brings 6-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from Dörfli. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in se...

The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, and was the last one to be published in her lifetime. Just 4 years later, she would take her own life after suffering mental health problems since she was a young teenager. The Years tells the story and history of the Pargiter family, spanning fifty years and focusing on the details of the characters' lives. Most of the sections in the book take place on a single day in a year.

The Beautiful and Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It tells the story of a Harvard-educated, aspiring man, Anthony Patch, and his beautiful wife Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and greed. A devastating look at the nouveau riche and New York nightlife of the roaring 20's.

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. It is divided into three books. Book 1 introduces Mr Bensington, a research chemist. Along with Professor Redwood, he develops the 'food of the gods'; a food that accelerates the growth of children and turns them into giants when they become adults.