Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a sweeping study of collective irrationality, tracing episodes such as the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, Tulipomania, alchemical obsessions, witch persecutions, crusading fervor, and other social manias. Written in vigorous nineteenth-century prose, Mackay blends anecdote, moral reflection, and historical narrative, situating the work within Victorian popular history while anticipating modern studies of behavioral eco...

Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated) gathers the author's celebrated seasonal writings, from A Christmas Carol to lesser-known festive stories, presenting Christmas as a moral, social, and imaginative space. Written in Dickens's vivid, theatrical prose, these works blend ghost story, domestic realism, satire, sentiment, and social critique. The illustrations enhance their Victorian atmosphere, recalling the periodical culture and visual richness through whic...

This is a special issue—our 50th, as you may have noticed from our cover. To celebrate, all past and present editors were to contribute a story. (It helps that they are also amazingly talented writers.) So we have stories from Michael Bracken, Barb Goffman, Paul Di Filippo, Darrell Schweitzer, and Cynthia Ward in addition to our other fare.But wait! There’s more!This issue features four original tales—Elizabeth Zelvin has a fantasy/mystery stories, Phyllis...

Hard Times is Dickens's most concentrated industrial novel, a searching indictment of utilitarian education, laissez-faire economics, and the spiritual impoverishment of Victorian modernity. Set in the grim manufacturing town of Coketown, it opposes "Facts" to imagination through the lives of Thomas Gradgrind, Louisa, Tom, Sissy Jupe, and Stephen Blackpool. Its style is compressed, allegorical, and satiric, blending social realism with fable-like symbolism and moral drama. Charles Dickens ...

The Notting Hill Mystery is a landmark sensation narrative and a foundational work of detective fiction, first appearing in the early 1860s amid Victorian fascination with crime, science, mesmerism, and documentary proof. Presented through letters, depositions, diary extracts, medical testimony, and investigative reports, the novel reconstructs the suspicious death of Madame R** and the sinister designs surrounding insurance fraud, inheritance, and hypnotic influence. Its fragmentary, evid...

Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, his last completed novel, is a darkly intricate study of wealth, waste, identity, and moral regeneration in Victorian London. Centered on the disputed inheritance of a fortune made from dust-heaps, the novel interweaves mystery, satire, melodrama, and social criticism with remarkable structural control. Its river imagery, doubled identities, and grotesque comedy place it among Dickens's most symbolically dense works, while its critique of acquisitive so...

The 12 Powers of Man is a concise but ambitious work of Christian metaphysics, presenting the human being as endowed with twelve divine faculties awaiting conscious development. Fillmore interprets the apostles as symbolic correspondences to powers such as faith, strength, wisdom, love, imagination, will, order, zeal, renunciation, life, and understanding. Written in an aphoristic, devotional, and exegetical style, the book belongs to the New Thought tradition, blending biblical interpreta...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Are you struggling with chronic procrastination that's holding you back from achieving your goals and reaching your full potential?In How to Do The Hard Things, author Phil Charles provides actionable tools and techniques to help you overcome the tendency to put things off and finally get important tasks done.Drawing on his own experience as a technical professional who had to learn essential non-technic...

This unabridged compendium gathers the major phases of Charles Dickens's art, from the comic expansiveness of The Pickwick Papers to the moral intensity of Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Hard Times, and Great Expectations. It includes the festive ethical parable A Christmas Carol, the autobiographical breadth of David Copperfield, and the historical drama of A Tale of Two Cities. Together these works display Dickens's unmatched gift for caricature, melodrama, social satire, and narrative momen...

Equality is a widely championed social ideal. But what is equality? And what action is required if present-day societies are to root out their inequalities?The Equal Society collects fourteen philosophical essays, each with a fresh perspective on these questions. The authors explore the demands of egalitarian justice, addressing issues of distribution and rectification, but equally investigating what it means for people to be equals as producers and communicators of knowledge or as...

In the richly evocative anthology, 'The Horrors for the Long Christmas Night,' readers are treated to a broad panorama of Victorian and Edwardian literature, where the enchantment of Christmas intertwines with the eerie charm of ghost stories. This collection showcases an intriguing range of styles—from the subtle psychological tension to the overtly supernatural. Each piece, masterfully crafted, transports readers into a time when storytelling was an art form, wielded to captivate audienc...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In what many consider his greatest sermon, Compel Them to Come In (Sermon No. 227), Charles H. Spurgeon delivers a thunderous, compassionate call to evangelism rooted in Luke 14:23 (KJV): “Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.” With his signature blend of urgency, eloquence, and gospel clarity, Spurgeon unpacks the heart of God for the lost—and the responsibility of every ...