Philosopher, logician, mathematician, social reformer and historian, the renowned Nobel Prize winner.

The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, weaves through its poetic verses the life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.

Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin.

I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater, and have suffered.

The mind can only be conquered by regular meditation, by deciding beforehand.

The aim of literary study is not to amuse the hours of leisure.

Considering that we have to spend the whole of our lives in this human machine.

There are moments in the lives of all of us when we catch glimpses of a life - our life.

There is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world.

The author of The Grand Babylon Hotel, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day.

Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer.

Regarded as one of Arnold Bennett's finest works, The Old Wives' Tale was first published in 1908.

Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.

Philosopher George Santayana published The Life of Reason in five volumes between 1905 and 1906.

Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.

Following the Equator is an account by Mark Twain of his travels through the British Empire in 1895.

Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a harrowing critique of social class and the powerlessness of women.