Authors: Emily R Wilson , Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In Historical, Philosophy

By Stephanie McCarter

For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Authors: Apollonius of Rhodes

In Historical, Philosophy

By Stephanie McCarter

Apollonius of Rhodes published his first version of THE ARGONAUTICA sometime in the middle of the third century B.C. At the end of his life he was director of the famous Library of Alexandria, which was the principal storehouse of all pagan literature and learning

Authors: Lucius Apuleius

In Historical, Philosophy

By Stephanie McCarter

THE METAMORPHOSES OF APULEIUS, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as THE GOLDEN ASS, is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety. The protagonist of the novel is Lucius. At the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, the hometown of Apuleius himself.

Authors: Margaret Mitchell

In Historical

By Danya Kukafka

GONE WITH THE WIND was popular with American readers from the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937. As of 2014, a Harris poll found it to be the second favorite book of American readers, just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide

Authors: Dan Brown

In Arts & Musics, Historical, Suspense Thriller

By Regina Dent

"Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vaults of history. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine."

Authors: V. C. Andrews

In Historical

By Allegra Goodman

According to Andrews, THE ATTIC manuscript was returned with the suggestion that she "spice up" and expand the story. In later interviews, Andrews claims to have made the necessary revisions in a single night. Yet this is undoubtedly when she says she decided to just let go and penned some of the more salacious scenes and paragraphs, which became something of a hallmark and proved an instant popular success, reaching the top of the bestseller lists in only two weeks

Authors: Niccolo Machiavelli

In Historical, Social Culture

By Stephanie McCarter

The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes – such as glory and survival – can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends. In that sense it stands alone.