The Library

Read the classics, in full.

109 public-domain works — philosophy, psychology, science, and the books that help us understand the human. Free, and made to be read.

Philosophy

How to think, live, and find meaning.

36 books

A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

Epictetus

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Hume, David

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1: MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2

Locke, John

Apology

Plato

Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Bacon, Francis

Beyond Good and Evil

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

Descartes, René

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

Montaigne, Michel de

Ethics

Spinoza, Benedictus de

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Kant, Immanuel

Leviathan

Hobbes, Thomas

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

On Liberty

Mill, John Stuart

Politics: A Treatise on Government

Aristotle

The Art of War

Sunzi, active 6th century B.C.

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

The Critique of Pure Reason

Kant, Immanuel

The Enchiridion

Epictetus

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The Genealogy of Morals: The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

The Imitation of Christ

Thomas, à Kempis

The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

Aristotle

The Prince

Machiavelli, Niccolò

The Problems of Philosophy

Russell, Bertrand

The Republic

Plato

The Sayings of Confucius: A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects

Confucius

The social contract & discourses

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

The Symposium

Xenophon

The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics

Laozi

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Utilitarianism

Mill, John Stuart

Utopia

More, Thomas, Saint

Walden

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Thoreau, Henry David

Psychology

The mind, the unconscious, the crowd.

12 books

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Freud, Sigmund

Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Freud, Sigmund

Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego

Freud, Sigmund

Human Nature and Conduct: An introduction to social psychology

Dewey, John

Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)

Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals

James, William

The Analysis of Mind

Russell, Bertrand

The crowd : $b A study of the popular mind

Le Bon, Gustave

The Interpretation of Dreams

Freud, Sigmund

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

James, William

The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

James, William

Totem and taboo : $b Resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and neurotics

Freud, Sigmund

Science & Nature

Evolution, the cosmos, the method.

13 books

An Essay on the Principle of Population

Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert)

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Franklin, Benjamin

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Huxley, Thomas Henry

Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays

Huxley, Thomas Henry

First Principles

Spencer, Herbert

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)

Darwin, Charles

Relativity: The Special and General Theory

Einstein, Albert

The Chemical History of a Candle

Faraday, Michael

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Darwin, Charles

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Darwin, Charles

The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method

Poincaré, Henri

The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century

Haeckel, Ernst

The Voyage of the Beagle

Darwin, Charles

Human & Society

Rights, freedom, and the shape of the world.

12 books

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Wollstonecraft, Mary

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Smith, Adam

Common Sense

Paine, Thomas

Democracy in America — Volume 1

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Douglass, Frederick

The Souls of Black Folk

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)

The Story of My Life: With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy

Keller, Helen

The Subjection of Women

Mill, John Stuart

The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by Which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. to Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages.

Smith, Adam

The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights of Man

Paine, Thomas

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Northup, Solomon