The Beautiful and the Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A downfall from uppity socialites to fiscal ruin.

Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A beautiful 18 yo starlet arrives at the French Riviera…

The Last Man

Mary W. Shelley

Skulls in the stars.

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?

The Monk

M. G. Lewis

A Romance

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Oliver, an orphan runs away to London for a better life.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes, a notable detective, loves solving puzzles.

Ulysses

James Joyce

8:00 AM, Thursday June 16, 1904.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

The theory of “will to truth."—a note for philosophers.

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Near the tombstones of his parents, Pip meets a convict.

We

Eugene Zamyatin

A 1921 blueprint for authoritarian dystopia

The Brothers Karamazov (Part-I)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A story of conflict between faith and doubt—of free will.

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Buck is stolen from his home and sold as a sled dog…

Phaedo

Plato

The immortality of the soul.

Emile

Jean-Jacques Rousseau