Wuthering Heights is a classic novel by Emily Brontë that explores the relationship between the d...

Following the validation of Einstein's general and special theories on relativity during the sola...

In The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine not only claimed the people had the right to overthrow a gover...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

In Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington tells how he was able to educate himself through hard wo...

In April 1895, Captain Joshua Slocum set sail from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in Spray--a thirtysi...

Republic

These essays, known collectively as The Federalist Papers, address critiques of the Constitutiona...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a compelling account of the experiences and st...

First published in Leuven by Erasmus in 1516, and then in English in 1551, this work of fiction a...

Published in 1776, this book is widely regarded as the cornerstone of modern economics. Smith, a ...

W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk is a collection of essays that elucidate the indigniti...

The Odyssey was likely composed near the end of the 8th century B.C.E. in the Greek coastal regio...

During the later Warring States period, Sun Tzu observed since the opposing force 'didn't know wh...

Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing, published in 1859, was the first book to address the spe...

The Social Contract argues against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. R...

The Montessori Method

Political Economy for Beginners is presented in four sections that address how wealth is produced...

History of the Donner Party

St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions is an autobiographical work that focuses on the author's con...

Perhaps best known for the observation 'Je pense, donc je suis' ('I am thinking; therefore, I exi...

The Voyage of the Beagle recounts the experiences of the young botanist Charles Darwin and the di...

Caesar wrote this account of his campaign against the Gauls (58BCE-51BCE) in the third person, wh...

Darwin's The Origins of Species, published in 1859, proposed a revolutionary theory of human deve...

This classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850, examines themes of guilt and redemp...

Written in an epistolary format, Bram Stoker's Dracula is a classic Gothic novel first published ...

Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams argues that dreams are the mechanism whereby the tho...

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is a personal journal of a Roman emperor's innermost thoughts. Writ...

This is classic novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1859, depicts the tumultuous events of the...

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, is a classic novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 18...

Benjamin Franklin began his autobiography in 1771 as remembrances for his son, William, and he ad...

In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? is a book of sermons that present specific morally challenging...

Originally published in 1884, this a novel has been widely celebrated for its humor, satire, and ...