Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods,…

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen (Introduction)

Landmark, groundbreaking, classic―these adjectives barely…

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick (Introduction), Gerald Bevan (Translation)

Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even…

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, C.B. Macpherson (Editor, Introduction)

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes'…

1984 by George Orwell

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

Animal Farm by George Orwell

As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago,…

The Republic by Plato, Desmond Lee (Translator)

  Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three…

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand…