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Democracy in America

When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume book he published after his visit, still remain surprisingly relevant today...

The Pursuit of God

by Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Pursuit of God is a Christian classic written by spiritual mentor Aiden Wilson Tozer. Intimate relationship with God begins with blind faith ignoring formality and worldliness. The thirst to walk towards God lies for every Christian in-spite of their back-round. To support his preaches, he provides examples of many saints who lived with the sam..

The Communist Manifesto

by Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential political pamphlet written 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The manifesto predicts the lack of efficient productivity and labor wealth in the capitalism would lead to socialism and subsequently lead to communism. Though it is a co-authored book, Marx himself said in the preface that the ..

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

by Lord Byron

The Narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was an ideal platform for Lord Byron to express his views with introduction of Byronic hero an intelligent young man with cunning nature, susceptible to mood swings and easy to get seduced by women. In the Canto IV preface, Byron mentioned that the protagonist has many similarities with his personality...

The World as Will and Idea

by Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophical work The World as Will and Idea has been written in Two volumes comprising books titled as Epistemology, Ontologym, Aesthetics, and Ethics. The essence of Arthur's philosophy is similar to Buddha's philosophy that all the sufferings humans go through to be attributed to Will or Desire for more...

De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde's controversial relationship with his intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas lead to his imprisonment for indecent behavior. He has written De Profundis as a letter addressing to Alfred, while he remained in prison. Written in two parts, first part narrates their relationship and good times; the second Part narrates Wilde's spiritual devel..

The Symposium

by Plato

The Symposium is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with the genealogy, nature and purpose of love, on another level the book deals with the topic of knowledge, specifically how does one know what one knows. The topic of love is taken up in the form of a group of speeches, given by a group of m..

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

by Suetonius

Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus's biographical work The Lives of the Twelve Caesars is a collection of biographies of Roman Empire's first leaders , Julius Caesar (the first few chapters are missing), Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. Other works by Suetonius concern the..

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