Penguin classics

Plato examines the nature of justice and other topics such as imitative poetry in this philosophical work depicting a dialogue between Socrates--representing Plato--and several other thinkers. Includes an introduction by translator Desmond Lee, explanatory notes, and a selected bibliography.

Memoir of nineteenth-century historian and philosopher Henry Adams in which he discusses the forces that influenced his life including, politics, religion, society, and literature.

Presents a shortened version of the journal kept by Charles Darwin while on an 1831 voyage to chart the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, in which he recorded his observations about geology, natural history, and other topics.

Presents Mary Antin's 1912 account of her experiences as a Jewish immigrant who came to America from a Russian village in 1894, when she was twelve.

Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller?s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for the New York Times Magazine entitled ?What It Means To Be a Homosexual? in response to a homophobic article published in Harper?s Magazine. Described as ?the most widely read and discussed essay of the decade,? it carried the seed that would blossom into On Being Different?one of the earliest memoirs to affirm the importance of coming out.

A nineteenth-century French woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.

Artie Kipps, orphaned at a young age and raised by his aunt and uncle who apprenticed him to a draper, struggles to master the rules and etiquette of polite society after learning that he is the grandson and heir of a very wealthy gentleman.

In a series of adventures Nicholas, a young hero, journeys from the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys' boarding school to a high-spirited acting troupe in nineteenth-century England.