Anthem is set in a distant collectivist future, when every form and emblem of individualism have been erased and society has reverted to a preindustrial level.

The Apology of Socrates is one of the earliest existing documents of Greek philosophy - everything earlier was lost and is known only through quoted fragments in later works, like those of Plato himself.

Written in China over two thousand years ago, The Art of War provides the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning and conduct of military operations

Julius Caesar was a Roman military and political leader. He played an important part in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

Appearance and Reality from The Problems of Philosophy

William Frederick Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, is one of the great icons of the pioneer years in the early American West.

Call of the Wild is the story of Buck, a magnificent dog who is stolen from his idyllic life and sold for use on a Yukon dogsled team.

The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political tracts.

The 1920's, also known as the Jazz Age, were wild times, and Francis Scott Fitzgerald was its king.

This is the story of the expedition in 1769, whose objective was the political and spiritual conquest of the great Northwest coast of the Pacific.

The lives of the American Indian, as written by Charles Eastman, come to life as they wrestle with the intrusion of the “White Man” and their own survival.

The ancient texts we call Greek Myths are our window into the distant past...

These three charming Japanese Fairy Tales were translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki in 1908.

Although Bram Stoker wrote many novels, essays and short stories during his life, the Irish writer is inextricably linked with his infamous vampire novel - Dracula.

Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian-born artist, was one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting.

Phineas Taylor Barnum is best remembered for his entertaining acts and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Kahlil Gibran (author of The Prophet) was a Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet and artist...

"We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection."

Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister...

Mohandas Gandhi was one of the most important leaders in freedom fight in India and its struggle for independence from the British Empire.

In many works by Herman Hesse, the German novelist and Nobel Prize winner, there is a theme depicting the duality of spirit and nature, body versus mind...

Much of the literature on early Chinese immigrants to the western United States focuses on their experiences in California and as laborers on the great railroad construction projects of the late nineteenth century.

The story of the Stolen White Elephant, though entirely preposterous, is modeled after real life efforts of an actual police department.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a 19th century literary masterpiece and key philosophical work by Nietzsche.

The Waste Land is a highly influential and controversial 433-line modernist poem written by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century...