Philosophy Classics
Explore 35 timeless philosophy masterpieces with complete chapter-by-chapter summaries, modern analysis, and study guides. Each book is amplified with insights that connect classic wisdom to contemporary life.
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche • 1886
Candide
Voltaire • 1759
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1866
Das Kapital
Karl Marx • 1867
Ecclesiastes
Qoheleth • -300
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson • 1841
Emerson's Essays (1841): Self-Reliance, The American Scholar, Compensation, and more. Free chapter summaries, key quotes, and life lessons with audio.
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) • 65
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius • 180
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville • 1851
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle • -350
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill • 1859
On the Shortness of Life
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • 49
Proverbs
King Solomon (attributed) • -950
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse • 1922
Siddhartha by Hesse: free 12-chapter spiritual journey guide. Samanas, Kamala, the river, and wisdom through experience, with summaries, quotes, and audio.
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu • -400
The Analects
Confucius • -479
The Art of War
Sun Tzu • -500
The Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa • -400
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi • 1645
The Book of Five Rings by Musashi: free 5-chapter guide to samurai strategy, timing, and mental clarity. Summaries, key quotes, and Kenji's arc.
The Book of Job
Anonymous • -600
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1880
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius • 524
The Dhammapada
Buddha • -300
The Dhammapada: Buddha's 26-chapter verse handbook on mind training, ethics, and awakening. Chapter summaries, key quotes, and life lessons with audio.
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri • 1320
The Divine Comedy: free 100-canto guide through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Canto summaries, key quotes, moral themes, and life lessons with audio.
The Enchiridion
Epictetus • 125
Epictetus's Enchiridion: a 51-chapter Stoic handbook on control, judgment, and resilience. Chapter summaries, key quotes, and modern life lessons with audio.
The Essays of Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne • 1580
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1869
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 1890
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli • 1532
The Republic
Plato • -375
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith • 1759
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith • 1776
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche • 1885
Walden
Henry David Thoreau • 1854
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy • 1869
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