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These three ‘Consolations', written by Seneca to his mother and two friends, have been described as ‘the crowning achievement in the canon of ‘consolation...

The influence of Plato, his Dialogues and his ‘Academy', cast a long shadow. Around 35 Dialogues, almost all featuring Socrates as the principal figure, are...

The original Latin name of this important essay by Seneca, written around 60 CE, was De Beneficiis, which is why it is generally translated as ‘On Benefits'....

David Hume (1711-1776) remains one of the most stimulating and entertaining writers in the English essay tradition. Though primarily known for long-form...

Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first novel, is almost forgotten now, living as it does under the long shadow of Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, The...

The Jewish War is an extraordinary historical document in that it details a calamitous period of four years during which the Jews pitted themselves against...

Though this work originated in a series of essays in the opening decade of the twentieth century, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of...

“Probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century” – ARTHUR KOESTLER Karl Popper's THE POVERTY OF HISTORICISM is one of the most...

Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first...