The Essays of Miguel de Unamunobrings together a selection of penetrating reflections from Spain’s most original and influential thinkers of the “Generation of 98”, the intellectual movement that followed Spain’s national crisis at the end of the nineteenth century. Unamuno writes with urgency about identity, belief, and the restless search for meaning in a changing world….
Julius Caesar & Antony and Cleopatra are two of Shakespeare’s best tragedies that, in this edition, come together as a diptych, contrasting with one another to create a compelling exploration of power, loyalty, and the human heart in the shadow of the birth of the Roman Empire. In Julius Caesar, the Bard dramatizes the fall of a…
Zanoni is a masterful fusion of historical romance, philosophical allegory, and esoteric mystery, written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), famed Victorian novelist, dramatist, and statesman, poured into Zanoni his fascination with mysticism, Neoplatonism, and the Rosicrucian tradition. The book has long captivated readers of the occult and inspired figures from Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical movement to later seekers of spiritual and esoteric truth….
Rienzi – The Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is a historical novel that brings to life the dramatic career of Cola di Rienzo, the 14th-century Roman tribune who rose from humble origins to lead a bold but tragic attempt at reviving the grandeur of the ancient Republic. Rienzo’s story—of idealism, power, betrayal, and downfall—captured the…
The collected ‘Comparisons’ from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: In his ‘Comparisons’, Plutarch contrasted the greatest men of Ancient Greece with the greatest men of Ancient Rome, pitting figures like Alcibiades, Pericles and Alexander the Great against homologous ones, the likes of Romulus, Cato and Caesar. Plutarch’s Lives has served as a source of inspiration to various thinkers and statesmen over the centuries: men like Montaigne, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and,…
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne – Selected for Men On the essays selected for this edition, the reader will be able to find reflections on various philosophies, historical episodes and historical figures, like, for example: Cicero, Seneca, Alexander, Socrates, Heraclitus, etc.; as well as some of the author’s most unique, if obscure, essays, like:…
Carpe diem! Sieze the day! Thus cried Horace two thousand years ago, before the birth of Christ, before the apogee and eventual demise of the empire that he saw crawl from its egg, blind and hungry, and blossom into an eagle of gold! The power and prescience of Horace’s words made his name recognizable even…