Antiquity
Antiquity includes pretty much anything before 500 AD. That includes the Greeks, Romans, and many of the Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Middle Eastern classics.
Aesop's Fables
Aesop’s Fables is the title commonly given to a collection of several hundred fables that have come ..
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Antigone
Antigone is the third and last of Sophocles’ Theban plays based on the legend of Oedipus and Jocasta..
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Beowulf
Beowulf is the title of the oldest surviving epic poem of Old English and the first to be written in..
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Bhagavad-Gita
The Bhagavad-Gita is the sixth book of the Mahabharata and a core book in Hindu scripture. Written s..
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Eudemian Ethics
Aristotle coined the term “ethics” to define a field of study first undertaken by Socrates and Plato..
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Musings of a Chinese Mystic
If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to natur..
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Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle coined the term “ethics” to define a field of study first undertaken by Socrates and Plato..
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Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus at Colonus is the second of Sophocles’ Theban plays and the last to be written, completed ju..
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Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex is the first of Sophocles’ Theban plays and is regarded by many as the masterpiece of Gr..
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Poetics
Poetics is the earliest known work that develops a theory of drama and related literary forms. His ..
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion still considered “the most important ..
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The Aeneid
The Roman poet, Virgil wrote The Aeneid between 29 and 19 B.C. It recounts the travels of Aeneas, a ..
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The Cloud of Unknowing
The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the ..
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Confessions of St. Augustine, also called Confessions, is an autobiographical work written by St..
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The Constitution of Athens
The Constitution of Athens is a document attributed to Aristotle that describes the political system..
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The Ethics of Aristotle
Aristotle coined the term “ethics” to define a field of study first undertaken by Socrates and Plato..
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The Golden Ass
The Metamorphosis of Apuleius, which has come to be called The Golden Ass, the name given it by St. ..
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The Iliad of Homer
The Iliad by Homer is an epic of poem over 15,000 lines that recounts the conflict between Agamemnon..
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The Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Hindu text considered by many as the first and perhaps still the best w..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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The Odyssey of Homer
The Odyssey by Homer is an epic poem composed in part as sequel to The Iliad that tells the story of..
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The Oldest Code of Laws in the World
The Code of Hammurabi is a codification of the laws enacted by Hammurabi, the king of Babylonia and..
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The Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle
Poetics and Rhetoric together with Ethics and Politics constitute the pillars of Aristotle’s Practic..
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The Politics of Aristotle
Aristotle’s Ethics describes the means to the happy life of virtue intended by nature. In Politics h..
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Twelve Years A Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man who was born free in New York. The ..
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is book everyone in America should read, a fundamental w..
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Up from Slavery
In his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington chronicles his personal experiences..
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first and most popular of three memoirs Frederick..
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was one of the first books in the slave narrative genre that s..
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave reminds us that slavery at one time existed throu..
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
As owner and reporter for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight Ida B. Wells investigated numerous a..
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT: Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini, e..
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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638 - 1870
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade is a fundamental work of African-American history that is..
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