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The Art of War (Sunzi bing fa)
by Sun Tzu
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chine...
Oct 22, 2020 Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, War, History
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Goodreads Rating: 3.58
The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 political document by German philosophers Karl...
Oct 18, 2020 Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, History, Economics
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
by William Blake
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, contain memorable lyric verses embodying the emerging spirit of Romanticism. The poems of Songs of Innocence describe childhood state...
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
by Guy De Maupassant
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. ” These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, i...
Oct 06, 2020 Tags: Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, France
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
On Liberty is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, it applies Mill’s ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state. Mill suggests sta...
Oct 06, 2020 Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, History, Economics
The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
“The Cask of Amontillado” (sometimes spelled “The Casque of Amontillado”) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city ...
Oct 05, 2020 Tags: Horror, Gothic, Short Stories, Academic, Fiction
The Poetics of Aristotle
by Aristotle
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In this text Aristotle offers an...
Oct 05, 2020 Tags: Poetry, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Art, Criticism
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Goodreads Rating: 3.40
Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. In one of American fiction’s finest and most in...
Oct 04, 2020 Tags: Academic, Historical, Literature, Romance
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the ̶...
Oct 01, 2020 Tags: Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
