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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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Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is one of the early novels of Jane Austen, the first to be submitted for publicatio..
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Notes from Underground
Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered one of the first existentialist novels. The ..
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Observations on the Apocalypse
Isaac Newton's "Observations Upon the Apocalypse of St. John" is a collection of his writings that d..
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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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Of Human Bondage
The phrase W. Somerset Maugham used as the title for Of Human Bondage comes from Part IV of Spinoza’..
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Oliver Twist
“Please Sir, may I have a little more?” And with that request known to all who have any familiarity ..
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On Liberty
In 1854 John Stuart Mill began a short essay on the relationship of authority and liberty. Five year..
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On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche set out to dig into “the origin of our moral prejudices” in On the Genealogy of ..
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On the Origin of Species
The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin laid the foundation for the science of evolutionary b..
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On the Pleasure of Hating
"On the Pleasure of Hating" is an essay by William Hazlitt, published in 1826. The essay discusses t..
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Ozma of Oz
Ozma of Oz (1907) was the third in the Oz series of books by L. Frank Baum and the first that is set..
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Paradise Lost
The story of Adam and Eve, the original human couple in the book of Genesis, is the story of mankind..
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Pensees
In 1654, at the age of 31, Blaise Pascal had a religious experience that motivated him to turn his p..
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte, published in 1896, is Mark Twain..
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Persuasion
Jane Austen completed her last novel, Persuasion, in 1816, the year before her death in 1817 at the ..
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
The forty-three poems contained in this collection include some of the best-known work of Hafiz and ..
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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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Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard’s Almanack was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin using the pseudonym Rich..
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice, a novel of manners, was first published in 1813 and remains one of the best lov..
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Prufrock and Other Observations
Prufrock and Other Observations is the title of a pamphlet of twelve poems by T. S. Eliot published ..
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Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases..
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Pygmalion
Pygmalion (1913) is the most popular and best known of Bernard Shaw’s plays. It tells the story of t..
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The image is popular and general: A young man sits under an apple tree. An apple falls, strikes him ..
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A Doll's House
A Doll’s House aroused a great deal of controversy when it premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenha..
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An Enemy of the People
The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks o..
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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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A Shropshire Lad
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is ..
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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
During the economic and social upheaval of the 1870’s and 1880’s the notion of a better social order..
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Robert Frost: Early Poems
Robert Frost: Early Poems combines the first two of Robert Frost’s published volumes. A Boy’s Will i..
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A Boy's Will
A Boy’s Will is the first book of poems by Frost, published in 1913 when he was in his late thirties..
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North of Boston
North of Boston was Frost’s second book, a collection of seventeen poems published in 1914. It ..
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It con..
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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 Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds,also known as Bird Parliament or Speech of the Birds, is a masterpiece o..
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The Meditations on First Philosophy, which carries the subtitle “In which the existence of God and t..
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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