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Socrates

Voltaire

Franois-Marie Arouet, aka Voltaire, was arguably the 18th century's greatest philosopher, but he was also a great novelist and playwright. In his play Socrates, Voltaire embodies the ancient philosoph..

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes is Edgar Rice Burroughs' hugely popular 1914 book that spawned two dozen sequels. A child of a white couple who are killed by an ape in the jungles of Africa, Tarzan is raised by a ..

The Secret Adversary

Agatha Christie

Sounds Like a 1930 s mystery including a humorous edge. Well written and easy to read. Neat to read about the tension and espionage between WWI and WWII. See outside view of US. Precisely what one wou..

Canterbury Tales and Other Poems

Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer is considered by some to be the Father of English Literature, and the Canterbury Tales is his magnum opus. It is a frame story - a collection of stories contained by a larger one - written in ..

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

To this day, the classic Gulliver's Travels places Jonathan Swift as the master of both parody and satire. Fifteen years in the making, his book was published anonymously due to fear of prosecution. A..

Divine Comedy - Inferno

Dante Alighieri

The Inferno is an allegorical poem by Dante Alighieri featuring the poet as himself as he travels through the 9 circles of hell. He's guided by the Roman poet Virgil, who shows him each group of sinne..

The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells

Certainly a classic book but I have always felt like, in the end, the central character was just too one-dimensional. The absence of any moral reflection has always seemed like an opportunity missed. ..

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells is like the Plato of science fiction, and The Time Machine might be his Republic. It's the first of his series of vastly influential books which include War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man..