"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", by Mark Twain, is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.The authorSamuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30,...

Anarchism is an anti-authoritarian political philosophy that rejects hierarchies deemed unjust and advocates their replacement with self-managed, self-governed societies based on...

Apology presents the speech of self-defence given by Socrates in his trial for impiety and corruption specifically against the charges of corrupting the young, and by not...

In the Statesman the discussion is partly regarded as an illustration of method, and that analogies are brought from afar which throw light on the main subject. The search after...

Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans’ peculiar fascination with small things—and what small things tell...

a collection of glamour images by american photographer Rick Trottier

A lightweight romantic fantasy in which Lord Byron and Shelley figure in its pages, under different names and different worldly circumstances from those in which they actually...

The awe with which Plato regarded the character of 'the great' Parmenides has extended to the dialogue which he calls by his name. None of the writings of Plato have been more...

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous...

"The Cloak" is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809 – 1852) was a Russian...