Essays & Short Works
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- Explorations in Psychology
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- Philosophical Essays on Existence
The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations is a foundational text in economics, penned by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith during the transformative period of the…
Sermons on Several Occasions
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …
Stickeen
A great dog story, a well told tale--the naturalist and adventurer John Muir recounts how he and his companion, a dog named Stickeen, each, …
Selected Classics of Washington Irving
Washington Irving is one of early America's most treasured writers. He is best known for his wit and satirical voice. Irving had the extraor…
Anarchy
Anarchy is a thought-provoking exploration of the principles and philosophy of anarchism, penned by the influential thinker Errico Malatesta…
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…
The Prince
The Prince is a foundational political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli, exploring the complexities of power and governance. Written i…
Organic Gardener's Composting
The art and science of composting is presented in a humorous and readable manner from the basic elements to the in-depth science. An entire …
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis
A series of lectures given in the USA by Freud in German, later translated into English - Summary by Peter Tucker
The Right Way to Do Wrong
In The Right Way to Do Wrong, legendary illusionist Harry Houdini takes listeners on a fascinating journey into the world of crime and decep…
United States Historical Documents
The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…
Socialism
The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …
The Prince
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…
A Short History of England
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interac…
Eugenics and Other Evils
Eugenics and Other Evils is a thought-provoking collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton that critiques the eugenics movement of the early 2…
As a Man Thinketh
As a Man Thinketh is a literary essay of James Allen, published in 1902. The title is influenced by a verse in the Bible from the Book of Pr…
From October to Brest-Litovsk
This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk tre…
Democracy in America
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 1…
The Empire of Business
This collection of essays by Scottish-American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie, gathered from various periodicals and first published in…