Peter Tucker
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
History of Ancient Greek philosophy from pre-Socratics to Aristotle and on to the Sceptics and the Stoics. - Summary by Peter Tucker
The Cathedral
It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the c…
Twilight in Italy
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
Discourse on Metaphysics
This is a relatively short treatise by the highly influential and admired philosopher and polymath Leibniz. It presents his views on metaphy…
The Late Mattia Pascal
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…
Virgin Soil Volume 1
Turgenev's last and longest novel presents the story of a group of young people in late nineteenth century Russia, who because of disillusio…
The Bagpipers
A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTuc…
Prometheus Illbound
There is a witty and absurdist character to this contemporary setting of the plight of Prometheus, in which Zeus appears as a tremendously w…
The Captives
A story of alienation from the society which holds one captive, told from the standpoint of a young woman whose life is suddenly disrupted, …
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
Analysis of the writings of Kant's contemporary, the spiritualist religious philosopher Swedenborg, whose ideas still have a following in pr…
The Major Symptoms of Hysteria
In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspe…
Neoplatonism
This monograph focusses predictably on the theories and teachings of Plotinus but precedes this with a review of foregoing schools of philos…
The Last Days of Pekin
The author was an officer in the French navy. This book is a compilation of his experiences when stationed in China in 1900 during and immed…
Science and the Modern World
It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seve…
Virgin Soil Volume 2
The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1
The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …
Captain Fracasse
The story, set in the 17th Century during the reign of Louis XIII in France, concerns the progress of an impoverished nobleman as he venture…
The Improvement of Human Reason
The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, …
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 2
This is the second half of the novel by Goethe (the first half, Volume 1, has been recorded separately).It describes the completion of Meist…
The Prelude, Version 2
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…