Meditations are a series of thoughts by Roman Emperor and Stoic thinker, Marcus Aurelius. The thoughts in Meditations aim to be a source of guidance on how to…
Ghost Stories is a classic collection of tales by M. R. James that focuses of ghostly happenings. The setting for most of the stories is an eerily quiet…
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic Philosopher. Stoicism began as a school of Hellenistic philosophy and expanded to the Roman Empire. Stoics sought to help followers control…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the better-known Arthurian stories and it revolves around the beheading game storyline. This modern translation features Sir Gawain accepting…
While little is known about the life of Epictetus and his exact date of birth (believed to be around 55 AD) is unidentified, it is acknowledged that he…
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the earliest vampire novels predating Dracula by Bram Stoker. It is a haunting Gothic story of a woman who…
The Book of Enoch is an ancient religious work ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. It is one of the most important non-canonical apocryphal works and likely…
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is classic novel that explores the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and…
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas recounts the adventures of a young man named d’Artagnan after he travels home to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard…