The History of the Peloponnesian War  |
| Thucydides (460BC - 400BC) |
An influential classic and one of the earliest scholarly works of history. Enthusiastically embraced by the author's contemporaries and immediate successors. History gives an account of the war fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens) in Ancient Greece. Unlike the many appearances the Gods make in the writings of Herodotus and the poems of Homer, Thucydides sees history as being caused by the choices and actions of human beings. |
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| The Homeric Hymns |
| Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) |
A collection of hymns to celebrate individual gods of Greek mythology including: Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Dionysus, Demeter, Gaia, Heracles, Hermes, Hestia, Pan, Poseidon, and Zeus. |
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| The Idiot |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) |
Prince Myshkin is a simple and inherently good person but his naivety earns him the title of "idiot". Captivated by Nastasya, he ends up in a web of deceit, blackmail, betrayal and ultimately, murder. In this novel, Dostoyevsky wishes to portray a truly good person, one with beauty within his soul, untouched by the ways of the world. But can he remain untouched or does he ultimately find himself a victim of society? |
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| The Lamplighter |
| Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
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| The Lifted Veil |
| George Eliot (1819 - 1880) |
This novella, first published in 1859 is unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). |
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| The Research Magnificent |
| H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) |
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| The Secret Agent |
| Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
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