Leslie Stephen

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

What do you do for a fifth anniversary? We decided to have a collection of short works with a difference. We challenged our readers to find …

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…