Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.

• Seneca - On the Shortness of Life
• Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
• St Augustine - Confessions of a Sinner
• Thomas à Kempis - The Inner Life
• Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
• Michel de Montaigne - On Friendship
• Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
• Edward Gibbon - The Christians and the Fall of Rome
• Thomas Paine - Common Sense
• Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Women
• William Hazlitt - On the Pleasure of Hating
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
• Arthur Schopenhauer - On the Suffering of the World
• John Ruskin - On Art and Life
• Charles Darwin - On Natural Selection
• Friedrich Nietzsche - Why I Am So Wise
• Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
• Confucius - The First Ten Books
• Sun-tzu - The Art of War
• Plato - The Symposium
• Lucretius - Sensation and Sex
• Cicero - An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
• The Revelation of St John the Divine and the Book of Job
• Marco Polo - Travels In the Land of Kubilai Khan
• Christine de Pizan - The City of Ladies
• Baldesar Castiglione - How to Achieve True Greatness
• Francis Bacon - Of Empire
• Thomas Hobbes - Of Man
• Sir Thomas Browne - Urne-Burial
• Voltaire - Miracles and Idolatry
• David Hume - On Suicide
• Carl von Clausewitz - On the Nature of War
• Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
• Henry David Thoreau - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
• Thorstein Veblen - Conspicuous Consumption
• Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
• Sigmund Freud - Civilization and its Discontents
• George Orwell - Why I Write
• Hannah Arendt - Eichmann and the Holocaust
• Plutarch - In Consolation to his Wife
• Robert Burton - Some Anatomies of Melancholy
• Blaise Pascal - Human Happiness
• Adam Smith - The Invisible Hand
• Edmund Burke - The Evils of Revolution
• Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature
• Søren Kierkegaard - The Sickness Unto Death
• John Ruskin - The Lamp of Memory
• Friedrich Nietzsche - Man Alone with Himself
• Leo Tolstoy - A Confession
• William Morris - Useful Work versus Useless Toil
• Frederick Jackson Turner - The Significance of the Frontier in American History
• Marcel Proust - Days of Reading
• Leon Trotsky - An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe
• Sigmund Freud - The Future of an Illusion
• Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
• George Orwell - Books v. Cigarettes
• Albert Camus - The Fastidious Assassins
• Frantz Fanon - Concerning Violence
• Michel Foucault - The Spectacle of the Scaffold
• Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
• Various - Writings from the Zen Masters
• Thomas More - Utopia
• Michel de Montaigne - On Solitude
• William Shakespeare - On Power
• John Locke - Of the Abuse of Words
• Samuel Johnson - Consolation in the Face of Death
• Immanuel Kant - An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?'
• Joseph de Maistre - The Executioner
• Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater
• Arthur Schopenhauer - The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
• Abraham Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address
• Karl Marx - Revolution and War
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor
• William James - On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
• Robert Louis Stevenson - An Apology for Idlers
• W.E.B. Du Bois - Of the Dawn of Freedom
• Virginia Woolf - Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
• George Orwell - Decline of the English Murder
• John Berger - Why Look at Animals?
• Chuang Tzu - The Tao of Nature
• Epictetus - Of Human Freedom
• Niccolo Machiavelli - On Conspiracies
• Rene Descartes - Meditations
• Giacomo Leopardi - Dialogue Between Fashion and Death
• John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
• Charles Darwin - Hosts of Living Forms
• Charles Dickens - Night Walks
• Charles Mackay - Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions
• Jacob Burckhardt - The State as a Work of Art
• George Eliot - Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
• Charles Baudelaire - The Painter of Modern Life
• Sigmund Freud - The Wolfman
• Theodore Herzl - The Jewish State
• Rabindranath Tagore - Nationalism
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - Imperialism
• Winston Churchill - We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End
• Jorge Luis Borges - The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise
• George Orwell - Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
• Chinua Achebe - An Image of Africa

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