Serapis: 289 books

An analytical investigation of the social milieu in which the mystery cults operated brought to light the fundamental character of the interests and needs met by mystery initiation. On the one hand this made intelligible the undoubted popularity of the mystery cults themselves; on the other hand it...

Eve Edgarton is not who she seems to be. A short encounter with Mr. Barton shows that first impressions are not always right or indicative of ones seemingly obvious preference or ones proclivity.

In "Mariquita" John Ayscough describes how a simple solitary girl, half Puritan, half Spaniard, with a dash of Indian blood, on a ranch in Western America develops a vocation for the contemplative life and finally becomes a Carmelite nun. The incidents and characters are few, but the heroine...

During the American Civil war, five men:, Captain Cyrus Smith, an engineer; Gédéon (Gideon) Spilett, a reporter; Pencroff a sailor; Harbert (Herbert), a student; Nab (Neb) a cook and Smith's dog Top escape the siege of Richmond, Virginia by balloon. The balloon was launched during a great storm;...

This story depicts the fates of five leftist revolutionaries foiled in their attack and two common peasants who have received death sentences. These condemned men are awaiting their executions by hanging. In prison, each of the prisoners deals with his fate in his own way.

THE Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger...

This story of the little house at Behtany is worthy of a place among the few really great novels based on the New Testament--Ben-Hur, Saul of Tarsus, Quo Vadis must admit The Coming of the King to their select company.

Novel about a girl who through a series of accidents ends up in the American army pretending to be her twin brother and ends up fighting in WWI France. The whole army thought she was a man--until a woman fell in love with her. The whole army thought she was a man until a woman fell in love with her!...

The definition of wellness is a spectrum. An individual becomes aware of, and makes sound choices toward the quest of physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and rational wholeness through an intricate process. Total well-being involves balancing your mind, body emotions and spirit. This won't only...

This is an inquiry into a remarkable 19th century French medium, here called Hélène Smith. She popularized the concept of automatic writing, which earned her admiration from the latter-day Surrealists. And her interplanetary psychic visions are extremely similar to contactee accounts from the 1950s...

Principles of Philosophy is a book by Rene Descartes. It set forth the principles of nature—the Laws of Physics—as Descartes viewed them. Most notably, it set forth the principle that in the absence of external forces, an object's motion will be uniform and in a straight line. Newton borrowed...

What does a girl do when she finds herself alone, sans clothes, sans hands, on an uninhabited island in the Aegean Sea! Dorinda considered her plight. She had never felt more vulnerable. Petulantly she tugged at the steel bands upon her wrists. They were snug... He sat among the rocks, his sun colored...

"A Witch Shall Be Born" is one of the original novellas by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Barbarian. The story concerns a witch replacing her twin sister as queen of a city state, which brings her into conflict with Conan who had been the captain of the queen's guard. Themes of paranoia,...

Just thinking of being in an environment where stress, anxiety and panic attacks often occur is distressing enough. Most of the time, you just can’t do anything about it since it follows you wherever you go. But at other times, you give in to all kinds of temptations at home and in the workplace...