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Meditations

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

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…

Letters from a Stoic

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…

The Pilgrim’s Progress

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is a Christian allegory that depicts an earnest and impassioned search for salvation.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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…

The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells is a science fiction novel that follows the story of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man that find his way…

The Essential Writings of Epictetus

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

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

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

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

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…

The Story of My Life

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is an autobiography detailing her early life including struggles with deafness and blindness.