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The Republic
by PlatoPublished in a dialogue form of narration, The Republic is the conversation between Socrates and Plato, one of the most acknowledged and ironically most criticized philosophers of the western civilization. Plato makes you not to accept what he says. Rather he makes you to disagree, argue and most importantly to think. "I am the wisest man i..
Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThus Spake Zarathustra contains a collection of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's various philosophical works. The book was published during 1880s including many concepts like "eternal recurrence of the same", "death of God". The book chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra. He goes on to characterize "what the name ..
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
by Bertrand RussellThe aspects of Bertrand Russell views on philosophy cover the changing viewpoints of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), from his early writings in 1896 until his death in February 1970. Bertrand Arthur William Russell was a British nobleman, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various p..
Common Sense
by Thomas PaineOne of the most influential works in the history of Politics, Common Sense has ignited and created the need for freedom in Thirteen British Colonies. Though it was published anonymously initially, this book has the credit of highest number of copies read in the history of American publishing. Most important aspect of this book was the writing st..
Apology
by PlatoIn 399 BC, Socrates defends himself to the jury against the charges on him for corrupting young minds against the popular belief of the city on gods.The word in the Greek is apologia, which means apology. This Socrates defense speech is narrated by Plato in a dialogue form in this book “Apology”, by Plato...
The Collector
by Henry T. TuckermanThe Collector is a collection of essays written by the American essayist Henry Theodore Tuckerman, whose sympathetic and delicate criticism is reflected in all his prose and verse. Some of his notable works are A Month in England , The Italian Sketch Book , The Life of John Pendleton Kennedy , Characteristics of Literature , The Life of Silas..
Dubliners
by James JoyceDubliners is a collection of short stories written by Irish writer James Joyce, during a period when people of the then Ireland was peaking at Irish Nationalism. Based on the Middle class life of people around Dublin, some of these 15 stories were narrated by Child protagonists and moved on to older people. The stories are narrated and ref..
A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan SwiftA Modest Proposal is written by Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish writer, satirist and political pamphleteer. This most controversial satirical essay was written and published anonymously by the author, when Ireland was in deep trouble and the streets were full of beggars of female genre, who were unable to feed their children. Ireland which was ru..