Modern Wisdom

Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella is a foundational work of existentialist literature. It presents the fra...

Letters from a Stoic (also known as Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium) is a collection of 124 letters wr...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1866. It tells the story of...

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, r...

Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. Set in Denmark, t...

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequ...

The Bible is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that are considered by Christians, Jews, Sam...

Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's most important and influential work on ethics, in which he expound...

Parallel Lives, also known as Plutarch's Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arrange...

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long...

A classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, which tells the tragic s...

Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel, 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' offers a harrowing and poign...

The Bible is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that are considered by Christians, Jews, Sam...

Written by Herodotus in the 5th century BC, 'The Histories' is considered the foundational work of h...

A philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche, composed between 1883 and 1885. It chronicles the fict...