The Campaigns of Alexander (Penguin Classics)

Arrian

Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt, revised by J. R. Hamilton. 'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian's o...

Great Ideas: Fear And Trembling

Soren Kierkegaard

The infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus   Writing under the pseudonym of "Johannes de silentio," Kierkegaard expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in ...