Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put fort...
"On the whole, then, the argument from desire and design holds good. It is the weak and inefficient, the unwise in the affairs of life, the bunglers a...
This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pragmatists...
The Woman Who Did is a novel by Grant Allen about a young, self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is...
The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great. Written in ballad form, t...
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. H...
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, or simply Three Dialogues, is a 1713 book on metaphysics and idealism written by George Berkeley. Taking...
It begins with the passionate and slightly erotic poem "Leda", which recalls the love affair between Queen Leda, the mother of Helen of Troy, and her...
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossified in an ou...
The story concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Ano...
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientifi...
Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an ide...
Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for furth...
The Quintessence of Ibsenism is an essay written in 1891 by George Bernard Shaw, providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright H...
"The Battle of the Books" depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of the writing), as id...
A Remarkable Journey into the World of a Legendary Knight. This timeless tale takes readers on a thrilling adventure as they follow the legendary knig...
In the darkness of a coal mine, a spark of hope ignites a firestorm of revolution.
Germinal is a novel by Émile Zola that tells the story of a group...
Η "Πολιτεία του Πλάτωνα" είναι ένα αρχαιοελληνικό φιλοσοφικό διάλογο το οποίο εξετάζει ένα ευρύ φάσμα θεμάτων, από τη δικαιοσύνη και την κοινωνική οργ...
n the late 18th century, two young men, Charles de Haldimar and Henry Grantham, are friends and fellow officers in the British army. They are statione...
Max is a story of love, loss, and revenge that will stay with you long after you finish reading it.
Max is a young woman who is raised in a wealthy h...
Does the world exist outside of your mind?
In his groundbreaking philosophical work, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, George...
In the heart of a remote Norwegian fjord, a fervent and uncompromising pastor named Brand stands as a beacon of unwavering faith and unwavering dedica...
In the year 2050, the world has transformed into a utopian society known as the Republic of the Future. This socialist paradise, with its emphasis on...
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the charac...
