Three essays analyzing the origins, meaning, and value of the concepts of good, evil, and bad; of guilt, punishment, and bad conscience; and of ascetic ideals, including those of truth and truthfulness.

A young stowaway embarks on high-seas adventures.

A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, ordered by date of publication.

Proudhon outlines the anarchist economic theory of mutualism.

A jaded Russian fop’s disdain for the world catches up with him.

A civil servant tired of bureaucracy quits his job to become a writer, and falls in with a group of artists and philosophers.

A writer succumbing to mania tries to find a path out through occultism and religion, in Strindberg’s semi-autobiographical novel.

Arkady returns to his father’s estate accompanied by his friend from university—a nihilist.

On a bet, an eccentric Victorian gentleman races to circumnavigate the globe.

Five Americans, balloon-wrecked on a deserted island, must find a way to survive while revealing the island’s strange mysteries.

Prompted by a mysterious Icelandic manuscript, a professor and his nephew, with the aid of a local guide, adventure to the center of the earth through the crater of a dormant volcano.

Three men attempt to cross Africa by balloon.