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If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi

Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler

Alcibiades by Plato (Cambridge Greek and Latin classics)

The Hippias major by Plato

Cratylus by Plato

The Cratylus has always been a source of perplexity to the student of Plato. While in fancy and humour, and …

Plato: Charmides, Alcibiades 1 & 2, Hipparchus, The Lovers, Theages, Minos, Epinomis. (Loeb Classical Library No. 201) by Plato

Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended …

Protagoras by Plato

[Edit: sorry all, but the last summary was really lame. Admins, please use something better - here's my best shot.] …

Sophist (Dodo Press) by Plato

Timaeus by Plato

Theaetetus by Plato

Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined …

Crito by Plato

Meno by Plato

"Plato's Meno and Phaedo are two of the most important works of ancient western philosophy and continue to be studied …

Five dialogues by None None, Plato

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato …

Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

Invisible cities by Italo Calvino (Harvest/HBJ book)

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but …