A Guide to Marketplaces

Version One

Leveraging powerful network effects.

The Republic

Plato

Defense of Justice, and its relation to happiness.

Apology

Plato

An account of the Speech Socrates makes at the Trial.

Symposium

Plato

A series of speeches on Love at a party in ancient Greece

Euthyphro

Plato

Socratic dialogue before the trial of Socrates (399 BC)

Gorgias

Plato

Good versus evil, a detailed study of virtue.

Phaedo

Plato

The immortality of the soul.

Meno

Plato

What is virtue, can it be taught?

Theaetetus

Plato

What is knowledge?

Phaedrus

Plato

Socrates meets Phaedrus outside the city.

Crito

Plato

Crito visits Socrates who is awaiting execution at dawn.

Timaeus

Plato

Formation of the universe, its impressive order and beauty.

Les Misérables—Volume I

Victor Marie Hugo

Fantine, a young grisette finds love and despair in Paris.

John Carter

Edgar Rice Burroughs

And a Princess of Mars

All Things Considered

G. K. Chesterton

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

English girl travels to teach at a girls' school in France.

Candide

Voltaire

Optimism as an Ideal.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Les Misérables—Volume IV

Victor Marie Hugo

Jean Valjean uses precarious freedom in anonymity of Paris.

War and Peace Vol-II

Leo Tolstoy

Pierre is the son of Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov.

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

The Blind Musician

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko

A psychological study.

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius

The Silicon Jungle

David H. Rothman