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Encyclopædia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World
39h 17m
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A mad knight-errant and his down-to-earth squire encounter adventure in the Spanish countryside.
3h 38m
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
A steamer captain in the heart of Africa witnesses the final days of a brutal ivory trader.
33h 26m
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A dispute over inheritance between father and son escalates into a family feud.
3h 26m
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The classic treatise on how to tyrannize one’s subjects.
1h 31m
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ classic analysis of modern industrial society and call for Working Class revolution.
6h 50m
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s philosophical treatise on the ambiguity of traditional morality.
5h 44m
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau explores the political philosophy of authority originating from the consent of the people.
40h 43m
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Adam Smith lays the foundation of classical economics.
56h 7m
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
The story of five families in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.
3h 20m
Candide
Voltaire
A witty satire that tells of the young Candide’s attempts to stay optimistic through a series of incredible hardships.