Anabasis Xenophon - Widely considered the most famous work of the professional soldier and writer Xenophon, "e;Anabasis"e; is a true tale of dangerous adventure in ancient Greece.
Agamemnon Aeschylus - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Lohengrin Unbekannt - Über dem Lande Brabant, wo der Scheldestrom sich mit dem Rhein ins weite Nordmeer ergießt, lastete tiefe Trauer, denn Herzog Gottfried, der weise und gerechte Herrscher, lag im Sterben.
Die Philosophie der Freiheit: Grundzüge einer modernen Weltanschauung Rudolf Steiner - In seinem philosophischen Hauptwerk, das zugleich Fundament der anthroposophischen Geisteswissenschaft ist, setzt sich Rudolf Steiner mit Grundfragen des Erkenntnisprozesses und der Ethik auseinander.
Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus Thomas Taylor - Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus"e; is a short book of translations of fragments of Proclus by Thomas Taylor, the English Neoplatonist and translator of Aristotle, Plato and Orpheus.
Aus Indien Hermann Hesse - Überdrüssig der allzulangen Seßhaftigkeit und Gebundenheit an sein erstes, 1907 in Gaienhofen am Bodensee gebautes Haus, begab sich Hesse, damals 34jährig und Vater von drei Kindern, auf die längste Reise seines Lebens.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit - Rudolf Steiner - "Dies ist der Grund, warum ich mich gedrängt fühlte, ein Bild von dem Vorstellungs- und Empfindungsleben Nietzsches zu zeichnen.
Utopia - Thomas Morus - Thomas Morus Utopia | Neu lektorierte 2020er-Ausgabe, mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung, voll verlinkt und mit einem aktuellen Vorwort des HerausgebersDieses Buch hat gewaltige Wirkung hinterlassen.
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha, die Legende von der Selbstbefreiung eines jungen Menschen aus familiärer und gesellschaftlicher Fremdbestimmung zu einem selbständigen Leben, zeigt, dass Erkenntnis nicht durch Lehren zu vermitteln ist, sondern nur durch eigene Erfahrung erworben werden kann.
Selected Poems - Aldous Huxley - HEPHERD, to yon tall poplars tune your flute: Let them pierce, keenly, subtly shrill, The slow blue rumour of the hill; Let the grass cry with an anguish of evening gold, And the great sky be mute.
Every Man out of His Humour Ben Jonson - "e;Jonson's *Every Man Out of His Humour* is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune.
Phaedrus Plato - The Phaedrus written by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues.
The Eumenides Aeschylus - Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and eleven other judges chosen by her from the Athenian citizenry at the Areopagus (Rock of Ares, a flat rocky hill by the Athenian agora where the homicide court of Athens later held its sessions), to decide whether Orestes's killing of his mother, Clytemnestra, makes him guilty of the crime of murder.
Ahnung und Gegenwart Joseph von Eichendorff - Der junge Graf Friedrich unterliegt im Kampf gegen ausländische Okkupanten, geht seines Besitzes verlustig und findet hinter Klostermauern Frieden.
Critias Plato - Critias, one of Plato's late dialogues, recounts the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens, which failed due to the ordered society of the Athenians.
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay Immanuel Kant - Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Konigsberg (today Kaliningrad of Russia), researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment.
The Age of Reason Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of the Bible.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne Complete Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length.
The Magic Skin Honore de Balzac - Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire.
A Lost Lady Willa Cather - A Lost Lady tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester who live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad.
Die künstlichen Paradiese Charles Baudelaire - Die Werke des französischen Dichters Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) inspirieren bis heute Künstler auf der ganzen Welt.
Zur Geschichte der Religion & Philosophie in Deutschland Christian Johann Heinrich Heine - Ich muß den deutschen Leser darauf besonders aufmerksam machen, daß diese Blätter ursprünglich für eine französische Zeitschrift, die "Revue des deux mondes", und zu einem bestimmten Zeitzweck abgefaßt worden.
Parmenides Plato - This Plato is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, that begins with Zeno defending his treatise of Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality.
Spirits Rebellious Kahlil Gibran - Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for a wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing in her hands the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart, which he endeavoured to buy, is given freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre - William Shakespeare - "e;Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship.
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Iphigenia At Aulis Euripides - Euripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the dramatic competitions of the Athenian City Dionysia in 441 b.
