Written sometime during the 4th century BC, “Symposium” is one the most poetic and sublime works by the Greek philosopher Plato. The action ...

First published in 1757, the treatise “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, by the Irish philosopher ...

This treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously in 1748, has become one of the most influential works of political science ever written. ...

First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is widely hailed as one of the most important American novels of the twentieth-century. ...

The first short story collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Flappers and Philosophers” was originally published in 1920. The eight stories of ...

Zitkala-Sa was an important and influential Yankton Dakota Sioux writer, educator, and political activist. Born in 1876 on a Sioux reservation in South ...

Scottish poet, novelist, and anthropologist Andrew Lang is well-known for his volumes collecting the world's legends, fairy, and folk tales. Lang compiled ...

Written in 350 BC, Aristotle’s “De Anima” or “On the Soul” is not a work on spirituality, as the title would suggest, but ...

Written in the 2nd century by the Greek historian Polybius, “The Histories” is a multi-volume work detailing many of the events, people, and ...

Often referred to as a “father of science fiction”, H. G. Wells was one of the first authors to write a type of speculative fiction which ...