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The Origin of the Family by Friedrich Engels

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the …

Factotum by Charles Bukowski

Factotum (1975) is a picaresque novel by American author Charles Bukowski. It is Bukowski’s second novel and a prequel to …

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …

Plato's Parmenides by Albert Keith Whitaker

Eragon by Christopher Paolini (The Inheritance Cycle, #1)

One boy... One dragon... A world of adventure.

When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks …

The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey

The author has written a study that places George Orwell's 1984 in a variety of contexts: the author's life and …

A letter to American workingmen by Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Marriage And Love by Emma Goldman

The tell-tale heart by Edgar Allan Poe (Creative classic series)

The murder of an old man is revealed by the continuing beating of his heart.

Responsibility of Intellectuals by Knight ALLOTT, Nicholas Allott, Noam Chomsky, and 2 others

Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Αριστοτέλης

One of the first books written on what is now called aesthetics. Although parts are lost (e.g., comedy), it has …

The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of …

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (New York Review Books Classics)

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile …

The German ideology by Karl Marx