Popular Delusions

Table of contents

• The Mississippi Scheme
• The South Sea Bubble
• The Tulipomania
• The Alchymists
• Modern Prophecies
• Fortune Telling
• The Magnetisers
• Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard
• The Crusades
• The Witch Mania
• The Slow Poisoners
• Haunted Houses
• Popular Follies in Great Cities
• Popular Admiration for Great Thieves
• Duels and Ordeals
• Relics

Other Non Fiction classics

• Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
• Complete Herbal — Culpeper
• Mars — Percival Lowell
• Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana
• Pepy's Diary — Samuel Pepys
• Das Kapital — Karl Marx