Criticism Books

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary is an encyclopedic dictionary published by Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically arranged articles often criticize the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Islam, and oth..

Notes on My Books

Joseph Conrad

Notes on My Books is a collection of articles written by Joseph Conrad on guiding the readers to understand his books and writings...

Homer and Classical Philology

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Although he later rose to prominence as an innovative and controversial philosopher whose ideas influenced everyone from existentialist thinkers to the Nazi movement, Friedrich Nietzsche was trained i..

Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary

Denton Jaques Snider

The Odyssey starts by organizing itself; it maps out its own structure in what may be called a General Introduction. Herein lies a significant difference between it and the Iliad, which has simply an ..

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau's influential essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, or simply Civil Disobedience, was first published in 1849. It argued that individuals should not let governments override the..

Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

THE letters of Cicero are of a very varied character. They range from the most informal communications with members of his family to serious and elaborate compositions which are practically treatises ..

First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Catiline or Catilinarian Orations are a set of speeches to the Roman Senate given by Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the year's consuls, accusing a senator, Lucius Sergius Catilina, of leading a plo..

History of Famous Orators

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the following Rhetorical Pieces have never appeared before in the English language, I thought a Translation of them would be no unacceptable offering to the Public. The character of the Author (Mar..