A great new series released by Penguin UK with a series of thin volumes/essays/books on the ideas that have changed the world and inspired debate, dissent, war, and revolution. The entire set is at this Amazon List.
| SenecaMarcus Aurelius St Augustine Thomas a Kempis Niccolo Machiavelli Michel de Montaigne Jonathan Swift Jean-Jacques Rousseau Edward Gibbon Thomas Paine Mary Wollstonecraft William Hazlitt Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Arthur Schopenhauer John Ruskin Charles Darwin Friedrich Nietzsche Virginia Woolf Sigmund Freud George Orwell |
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On the Shortness of Life Meditations Confessions of a Sinner The Inner Life The Prince On Friendship A Tale of a Tub The Social Contract The Christians and the Fall of Rome Common Sense A Vindication of the Rights of Woman On the Pleasure of Hating The Communist Manifesto On the Suffering of the World On Art and Life On Natural Selection Why I Am So Wise A Room of One’s Own Civilization and its Discontents Why I Write |
(Hat tip: TED Blog)
I don’t think that your authors are lined up properly with the books. e.g., Martx and Engells did not write about the rights of women.