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“The drug can make a man the exact opposite of what he is…” John Sturman has everything except the one thing that matters: the creative spark that would win the heart of Sylvia March, the woman who believes her soul can only mate with genius. But when his brother returns from India...

When and why are you justified in withdrawing from public life? In the brief but remarkably rich essay On Leisure (De Otio), the Stoic philosopher Seneca explains his choice to withdraw from public life into contemplative retirement. Born to a wealthy and literary family, Seneca was brought to...

Can happiness be built, or does it only arrive by chance? Seneca takes up what he calls the question everyone rushes toward without stopping to think about: what is a happy life, and how is one actually achieved? Addressed to his elder brother Gallio, this is the Stoic legend at his most...

This beautifully curated anthology draws on major historical figures including Emerson, Thoreau, Carlyle, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Francis Bacon, Montaigne, and Aristotle. The pieces range across themes such as the sentiment of friendship, its pleasures, and the art of choosing...

Not all Chinese philosophers were concerned with ethics or society. The most famous figure on the other side is the Epicurus of China, The Yáng Zhū. While it forms Book 7 of the canonical Daost text Lièzǐ (列子), it is so different to the rest of that work that James Legge, the first...

The Huáinánzǐ (淮南子) is one of the great synthetic works of early Daoism. It weaves together cosmology, statecraft, and self-cultivation into a vision of the Dào (道) as the formless, generative source of all order. It is also known under its full title Huáinán Hóngliè...

"They say now that I am mad; but they are mistaken... Young men's associations invite me, pay me, and laugh at me while I lecture. 'Linley, the mad microscopist,' is the name I go by." In 1858, microscopy is the cutting-edge science of the day. The cell nucleus had been seen, and soon chromatic...

You probably know George Eliot as the author of legendary dramatic works like Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss—but did you know she also wrote sci-fi tales of gothic horror? First published anonymously in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1859, this short but skin-crawling tale is very different...

Mason was the Army’s best-kept secret. A reservist with a gift for long-range precision and a life he finally thought was safe. But when an IRA splinter cell executes his fiancée, the "quiet life" ends. The soldier is awake, and he’s seeing red.

"Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage... Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence... It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the...

Any study of Dàoism is a paradox. The first line of the Dàodé Jīng declares: "The way that can be spoken of is not the constant way." This inherent contradiction—attempting to define the indefinable—lies at the heart of the tradition. Yet it is precisely this tension that makes Dàoism so rich and enduring.

"I am the first and the last. I am the honored and the scorned. I am the whore and the holy. I am the wife and the virgin." The Thunder, Perfect Mind is a second century Coptic poem preserved in Nag Hammadi Codex VI. In the poem, a divine feminine voice speaks in paradoxes, identifying with...

In this Stoic epistolary essay, addressed to his father-in-law Paulinus—a prefect of the Roman grain supply—Seneca challenges the conventional lament that life is too short. He argues instead that life is long enough, but is made brief and miserable by our habits: we waste time on trivial...

In this classic of stoic philosophy, Epictetus gives short rules for living a well-ordered life, defined by knowing what is in your control and not getting upset about what isn't. Compiled by his student Arrian from classroom lectures, it distills a lifetime of ethical teaching into fifty-two...

It looks like a simple riddle book. A monk asks, "Has a dog Buddha‑nature?" The master replies, "Mu." Nothing more. But this single syllable—meaning literally "no" or "not"—has undone more clever minds than any philosophical argument. The Gateless Gate (Wúménguān) is a collection of 48...

In the late‑Victorian era, one novelist outsold Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells combined. Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill and William Gladstone were her devoted fans. The critics, however, loathed her – calling her “the favourite of the common multitude” and...

The sharpest pen of the French Enlightenment, the author of Candide (1759)... and also a sci-fi writer two hundred years before the term existed. This volume brings together two forgotten gems from the 1750s, when Voltaire was at the height of his powers. Micromegas (1752): A...

The future of humanity was never ours to control. In the tumultuous 21st century, the world is reborn in the crucible of change. True Artificial Intelligence awakens, not as a slave, but as a new form of life. A hidden cabal of mystics, the true rulers of humanity, guides this transformation...

The only edition to include rare, uncollected material from James Allen’s personal periodical and contemporary sources. For over a century, the words of James Allen have guided millions toward a life of purpose, peace, and prosperity. His masterpiece, As a Man Thinketh, has rightfully taken its place as a foundational text of the self-help movement. But who was the man who lived these truths before he wrote them? And what were the original ideas that shaped his philosophy?

Before the global sensation As a Man Thinketh, there was From Poverty to Power (1901), James Allen‘s first and, in his view, more significant work. Unlike other books, it was written while he was still working as a journalist, and before the success of As a Man Thinketh. Written with an energy and directness that defined his emerging philosophy in its earliest stages, this book presents a foundational exploration of spiritual law that Allen felt his later, more popular work only hinted at.