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.

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

A narrative of 1757.

Emma

Jane Austen

Ms. Woodhouse is content with life & sees no need for love.

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

The never-ending desperation of poor in Paris and London.

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

War and Peace Vol-I

Leo Tolstoy

Pierre is socially awkward and illegitimate.

The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield tells the story of his youth.

The Possessed

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Devils

Etiquette

Emily Post

Little Fuzzy

Henry Beam Piper

Jack Holloway lives a solitary life on planet Zarathustra

Opticks

Isaac Newton

Meno

Plato

What is virtue, can it be taught?

A Tale Of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

A 17 year old Lucie Manette learns that her father is alive.