Modern Classics

Classic texts, retold in contemporary English

• The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio (1353)
• Dialogues Plato (399–347 BC)
• The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
• Candide, or Optimism Voltaire (1759)
• Meditations Marcus Aurelius (c. 170–180 AD)
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
• Common Sense Thomas Paine (1776)
• The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (1787–1788)
• Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville (1835/1840)
• Democracy in America (From the French) Alexis de Tocqueville (1835/1840)
• Progress and Poverty Henry George (1879)
• The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776)
• An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas Malthus (1798)
• Philosophical Works René Descartes (1637–1644)
• Commentaries on the Gallic War Julius Caesar (c. 50 BC)
• On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin (1859)
• The Histories Herodotus (c. 430 BC)
• History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides (c. 431 BC)
• Two Treatises of Government John Locke (1689)