PENGUIN BOOKS GREAT IDEAS

Seneca On the Shortness of Life

Marcus Aurelius Meditations
Thomas a Kempis The Inner Life
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince
Michel de Montaigne On Friendship
Edward Gibbon The Christians and the Fall of Rome
Thomas Paine Common Sense
William Hazlitt On the Pleasure of Hating
John Ruskin On Art and Life
Charles Darwin On Natural Selection
Friedrich Nietzsche Why I am So Wise
George Orwell Why I Write

Throughout history, some books have The Stoic writings of the philosopher
changed the world. They have trans- Seneca offer powerful insights into
formed the way we see ourselves - and the art of living and the importance of
each other. They have inspired debate, reason and morality, and continue to
dissent, war and revolution. They have provide profound guidance to many
enlightened, outraged, provoked and through their eloquence, lucidity and
comforted. They have enriched lives - timeless wisdom.
and destroyed them. Now PENGUIN
brings you the works of the great
thinkers, pioneers, radicals and vision-
aries whose ideas shook civilization and
helped make us who we are.