First published in the pulp magazine "All-Story Magazine" in October, 1912, "Tarzan of the Apes" is the first novel in a series of adventure novels that ...

Arthurian legends have long been the source of countless popular tales. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is one of the best known and most ...

Born in the late 5th century AD, Boethius was a Roman statesman and philosopher who would come into the service of the Ostrogothic ruler of Italy, Theodoric ...

Written in Latin in 1509 and published in 1511, “Praise of Folly” by Dutch humanist and scholar Desiderius Erasmus is considered one of the ...

In 1781, Immanuel Kant published his first and most famous work, the “Critique of Pure Reason”. To the German philosopher’s dismay, ...

There exists, of course, few more famous figures in the field of psychology than Sigmund Freud. As the founding father of psychoanalysis, or the clinical ...

“Billy Budd” is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and ...

First published in 1922, “Tales of the Jazz Age” is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared ...

First published on January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one the most influential and best-selling works from the colonial ...

First published in 1739 to an unenthusiastic British public, Hume’s “A Treatise of Human Nature” has since been referred to as one of ...