Modern Wisdom

A classic philosophical work by John Stuart Mill that explores the nature and limits of the power wh...

The first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy, detailing the journey thro...

An ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, following the journey of Odysseus as he attempts to ...

A classic Stoic treatise that provides a detailed analysis of the emotion of anger, which Seneca des...

John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He i...

Written by Daphne du Maurier, "Jamaica Inn" is a dark and suspenseful gothic novel set in 19th-centu...

A gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier, "Rebecca" tells the story of a young, unnamed woman who marries...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella is a foundational work of existentialist literature. It presents the fra...

Letters from a Stoic (also known as Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium) is a collection of 124 letters wr...

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, r...

Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. Set in Denmark, t...

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequ...

The Bible is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that are considered by Christians, Jews, Sam...

Parallel Lives, also known as Plutarch's Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arrange...

Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's most important and influential work on ethics, in which he expound...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1866. It tells the story of...

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long...

A classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, which tells the tragic s...

Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel, 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' offers a harrowing and poign...

Written by Herodotus in the 5th century BC, 'The Histories' is considered the foundational work of h...