On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus, Stephen Hawking (Editor), Mikołaj Kopernik

  New to our On the Shoulders of Giants series, this groundbreaking…

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented…

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo, Henry Chadwick (Translator/Introduction), Albert Cook Outler (Translator)

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and…

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted…

Candide by Voltaire

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and…

Utopia by Thomas More, Paul Turner (Annotations)

Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus,…

Paradise Lost by John Milton, John Leonard (Editor, Contributor)

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems…

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff (Translator)

Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg…

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous, N.K. Sandars (Translator)

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as…

1984 by George Orwell

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is…