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

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

The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the...

Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise...

More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description'...

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