In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and...

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the...

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English...

Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are...

The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King...

Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in...

Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson. The two political classics in this book...

Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and...