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LETTERS FROM A STOIC is collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for fifteen years. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then procurator of Sicily.
★ The letters highlight many moral and ethical ways to live, and address many of the issues known to man, about life and death.
★ Each letter has been carefully adapted into Modern English to allow for easy reading and understanding. ✓
★ This is the complete volume containing all 124 letters. ✓
ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to his father-in-law Paulinus.
★ Seneca brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.
★ According to the essay, nature gives man enough time to do what is really important and the individual must use time wisely.
★ In general, time can be best used in the study of philosophy, according to Seneca.
★ This essay has been carefully adapted in to Modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓
THE ART OF WAR is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, is composed of 13 chapters.
★ Each chapter is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics.
★ For almost 1,500 years The Art of War has been the lead text in an anthology that would be formalised as the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080.
★ The Art of War remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare and has influenced both Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy, lifestyles and beyond.
★ This version of The Art of War has been carefully adapted in to Modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓
THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu (sword fighting), and combat in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645.
The modern-day warrior employs it as a manual of technique and philosophy.
Carefully adapted in to modern English for easy reading. ✓
THE DISCOURSES of Epictetus are a series of extracts from the teachings of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus.
★ This is the complete version containing books 1 – 4.
★ Each book has been carefully adapted in to Modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓
THE ENCHIRIDION
★ The Enchiridion or Manual of Epictetus (Enchiridion is Greek for “that which is held in the hand”) is a short manual of Stoicethical advice.
★ This manual has been carefully adapted in to Modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓
THE TAO TE CHING
★ There are various translations and many new-age self-help books based on the Tao Te Ching one of the most profound spiritual books ever to be written thousands of years ago by a sage who was known as Lao Tzu.
★ The beauty of the book is that it is left open to interpretation. The problem with this however, is that some are unable to form the deep hidden meanings of the paragraphs and make any sense of them. Whilst the book is highly enlightening to some, it is equally confusing to others.
★ This book contains a translation of the ancient text and then goes on to give a unique explanation of every paragraph.
★ Each interpretation aims to make the Tao Te Ching a lot more understandable and enjoyable for all.
★ All the mystical paradoxes are explained.
★ Each of the 81 paragraphs dissected for your awakening.
THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES
by Plato, is the dialogue that presents the speech of legal self-defence, which Socrates presented at his trial for impiety and corruption, in 399 BC.
★ Specifically: The Apology of Socrates is a defence against the charges of “corrupting the youth” and “not believing in the same gods as the city, but in other gods which are novel” to Athens.
★ The Apology of Socrates is the dialogue that depicts the trial, written by Plato who details the final days of the philosopher great Socrates.
★ This book has been carefully adapted into modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓
THE PRINCE is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli.
★ The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal.
★ It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning politics and ethics.
★This book has been carefully adapted in to Modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓
SELF RELIANCE
is an essay written in 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
★ It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson’s recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his own instincts and ideas.
★ This essay is an analysis into the nature of the aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded.
★ Emerson emphasises the importance of individualism and its effect on an individual’s satisfaction in life. He stresses that anyone is capable of achieving happiness, simply if they change their mindset.
★ Emerson focuses on seemingly insignificant details explaining how life is “learning and forgetting and learning again”.
★ This book has been carefully adapted in to Modern English to allow for easy reading.
CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS is a book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
★ It was written in 1929 and explores what Freud sees as the important clash between the desire for individuality and the expectations of society.
★ The book is considered one of Freud’s most important and widely read works, and one of the most influential and studied books in the field of modern psychology.
★ This book has been carefully adapted in to Modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓
DON QUIXOTE
The Ingenious Nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
★ Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. It appears regularly on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library collection that cites Don Quixote as the “greatest literary work ever written”.
★ This is the complete work containing both volumes, and has been carefully adapted into Modern English to allow for easy reading.
EL CID is the oldest Spanish epic poem preserved.
★ It is based on the true story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, known as El Cid, and it takes place during the Spanish Reconquest.
★ This is the story of a brave man who took on the challenge of recovering his home country after it had been beseiged.
★ This poem has been completely reworked and carefully adapted in Modern English to allow for easy reading.
JAMES HARRIS 