Philosophy books

Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements…

Tao Te Ching

by 老子, Markus Obrock

"Within ancient Chinese, a sole character possesses a broad, and sometimes contradictory, range of meanings. Moreover, the Tao Te Ching is rife w…

Wind in the Willows

by Robert Ingpen, Karen Saunders, Kenneth Grahame

The adventures of four amiable animals, Rat, Toad, Mole and Badger, along a river in the English countryside.

Richest Man in Babylon : (Modern English Version)

by George S. Clason, John W. Dankanich

To bring your dreams and desires to fulfillment, you must be successful with money. This book shows you how to amass personal wealth by sharing t…

Lucretius on the Nature of Things

by Titus Lucretius Carus

This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious w…

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, V. A. Kolve, Glending Olson

A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some a…

Against Nature

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

À rebours (French pronunciation: [a ʁ(ə).buʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl H…

Candide

by Voltaire

Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that…

Leaves of Grass

by Malcolm Cowley, Walt Whitman

**Leaves of Grass** is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. First published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life wr…

Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

**The Picture of Dorian Gray** is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1…

Walden and Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

«Se è indubbio che Thoreau abbia trascorso gran parte della sua vita nella natura libera, per lo più in solitudine, lontano dal consorzio civile,…

Treatise on law

by Thomas Aquinas

"This is the only free-standing English translation of the entire Treatise, which includes both a general account of law (Questions 90-92) and al…

Ten Days in a Mad-House

by Nellie Bly

In the 1800s, journalist Nellie Bly pretended to be mentally ill and spent 10 days in an insane asylum in order to report on conditions and abuse…

Carol

by Patricia Highsmith, María Alonso Seisdedos, Sonia Pulido

THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious …

The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

by Lois Lowry

At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, w…

The Works Of Orestes A. Brownson

by Orestes A. Brownson

Notes from the Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of …

Theory of the Leisure Class

by Thorstein Veblen

Considered the first in-depth critique of consumerism, economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class has come to be rega…

Modern Utopia (Annotated)

by H. G. Wells

Imagine a life without worries. You live in a perfect environment untouched by pollution. You have a job to do and play an important role in soci…

Rights of Man Fully Annotated Edition

by Thomas Paine

Written in a fit of pique brought about by Edmund Burke's blistering attack of the French Revolution, Paine's The Rights of Man has come to be re…

Science of Getting Rich

by Wallace D. Wattles, Ryan J. Rhoades

As featured in the bestselling book The Secret, here is the landmark guide to wealth creation republished with the classic essay How to Get What …

Symposium Illustrated

by Plato

One of the most famous works of literature in the Western world, Plato's Symposium is also one of the most entertaining. The scene is a dinner pa…

The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes

by John Maynard Keynes

Bushido : Code of the Samurai

by Inazo Nitobe

RELIGION: GENERAL. Bushido is the chivalric code of moral principles that the Samurai followed. Influenced by Confucianism, Shinto and Zen Buddhi…