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 Consolation of Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boëthius is a philosophical work written around 524 AD while Boeth..
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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 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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