Modern Wisdom

An ancient Greek epic poem traditionally attributed to Homer, set during the Trojan War and centerin...

A tragic play by William Shakespeare depicting the conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caes...

The epic 1963 historical drama starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, chronicling the life of...

A series of biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or...

The second of two epic poems attributed to Homer, detailing the ten-year journey of Odysseus back to...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...