A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By Mary Wollstonecraft

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and f...

Selected prose

By John Donne

The Bounty Mutiny

By William Bligh

The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many ending...

The Prince

By Niccolo Machiavelli

In Defence of the Republic

By Cicero

Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloqu...

Personal Writings

By Saint Ignatius Of Loyola

The writings of a major Christian thinkerOne of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and unique spiritual thinker and visionary. The works ga...

Christian eloquence

By C. Colt Anderson

Classical Literary Criticism: Aristotle - On the Art of Poetry Horace - On the Art of Poetry Longinus - On the Sublime

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The Makers of Rome

By Plutarch

Nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmenThe lives of the statesmen featured in this collection span the earliest days...

Letters from a Stoic

By Seneca The Younger

"It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us...without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry."For several years of his turbulent life, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Emp...