Books similar like The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols. 1-4

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and…

Buy this book on Amazon

Politics

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is…

Buy this book on Amazon

Prometheus Bound

For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound , this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one o…

Buy this book on Amazon

Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties

Buy this book on Amazon

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasi…

Buy this book on Amazon

In Our Time

First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories. This volume introduces readers to …

Buy this book on Amazon

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditation…

Buy this book on Amazon

Conversations of Socrates

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenop…

Buy this book on Amazon

From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel.

James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller. It's the novel that President John F. Kenne…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Mask of Dimitrios (Charles Latimer, #1)

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to …

Buy this book on Amazon

The River War

Buy this book on Amazon

Our Mutual Friend

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-hea…

Buy this book on Amazon

Middlemarch

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are"

George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peop…

Buy this book on Amazon

Among Others

Buy this book on Amazon

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

A study in scarlet --

The sign of four --

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemia ; The red-headed league ; A case of identity ; The Boscombe Valley mystery ; The five orange pips ; The man…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New Y…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Civil War: A Narrative

The Civil A Narrative (Hardcover, 3 Vol. Gift Set) A stunning literary and historical achievement, the three volumes of Shelby Foote’s THE CIVIL WAR vividly bring to life the four years of torment and…

Buy this book on Amazon

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself

According to Einstein himself, this book is intended "to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to t…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Prince

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term?

1. So it is that to know the na…

Buy this book on Amazon

The End of the Affair

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead..."

"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening pa…

Buy this book on Amazon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols. 1-4

Similar books (20)