early works to 1800

Treatise on political power, statecraft, and the qualities of the ideal ruler.

Presents selected portions of Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca's writings on anger and anger management, with the original Latin on the left-hand page and the author's translation on the right.

Author Mary Wollstonecraft presents her argument for the emancipation of women.

A comprehensive account of witches and devils in colonial America in which Cotton Mather, an influential minister of Boston's Old North Church, attempts to justify his role in the Salem witch trials.

Presents Thomas More's vision of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people.

A dialogue attempting to apply Plato's principles of philosophy to political affairs and discusses his vision of an ideal state.

Presents the 1726 text of Swift's satire in which a shipwrecked Englishman encounters bizarre populations in unheard-of lands, including an enlightened race of horses that makes him see his fellow humans as vile creatures; and includes notes and fourteen works of criticism.

Presents fifteenth-century Italian leader Niccolo Machiavelli's treatise on political power, statecraft, and the qualities of the ideal ruler.