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The Essential Henry David Thoreau Book Collection Contains four of Thoreau's best works: Walden, Or Life in the Woods On the Duty of Civil Disobedience A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Walki...

De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The ess...

The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of The Prin...

Joseph Conrad's timeless story about a voyage up the Congo River and into the heart of Africa plunges the reader into the brutal reality of European imperialism. The work stands as a powerful indictme...

Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from 161 to 180. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors. He is also today considered an important Stoic philosopher. While on campaign between 170 and 180, ...

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. The novel chronicles the appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin over the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulyss...

A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits ...

The Age of Innocence is a novel by American author Edith Wharton. The story centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose...