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The Confessions of St. Augustine is a spiritual autobiography cast as an extended prayer, interweaving narrative, theology, and scriptural exegesis across thirteen books. Augustine recounts his youth, flirtation with Manichaeism, career in rhetoric, and conversion in Milan, while probing memory, desire, time, and creation with unusual rigor. Its Latin prose marries Ciceronian cadence to biblical allusion and Neoplatonic terms, creating a self-scrutinizing voice that helped inaugurate Western interiority and the confessional mode. Born in 354 in Thagaste, Augustine trained as a rhetor in Carthage, Rome, and Milan; he passed through Manichaean dualism, Academic skepticism, and Neoplatonism before baptism under Ambrose in 387. Composed around 397400 as he served as bishop of Hippo, the Confessions praises providence, clarifies his motives, memorializes Monica, and instructs catechumens in desire rightly ordered to God. This classic rewards readers across theology, philosophy, and literature: its phenomenology of memory and time, its honest moral psychology, and its doxological ardor remain bracing. Whether approached as spiritual memoir or meditation on the souls restlessness, The Confessions offers enduring insight and prose artistry that repay slow, attentive reading.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set amid the Jazz Age on Long Island and Manhattan, The Great Gatsby follows Nick Carraway observing Jay Gatsbys extravagant pursuit of Daisy Buchanan across East and West Egg. With lyrical compression and modernist architecture, Fitzgerald deploys motifsthe green light, the valley of ashesto expose the American Dreams glittering surfaces and moral void, balancing satire with elegy. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Midwestern by origin and a sharp chronicler of the 1920s elite, drew on Princeton training, wartime disillusion, and marriage to Zelda Sayre. Alternately dazzled and repelled by wealth, he converted personal precarity and social observation into art, refining themes of aspiration, performance, and reinvention into this most concentrated expression of his ambivalent American vision. Recommended for readers of American modernism and cultural history, the novel rewards close attention to image, cadence, and narrative distance. As social document and poetic tragedy, it speaks urgently to inequality, self-fashioning, and desire. First-time and returning readers alike will find fresh insight into privilege, illusion, and the costs of dreaming.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Treasure Island charts young Jim Hawkinss flight from a quiet inn into mutiny, marooning, and buried gold. Narrated chiefly in Jims lucid first person, with sober interludes by Dr. Livesey, it marries brisk prose to salty specificity: the creak of rigging, the stink of the stockade. Set within late-Victorian juvenile romance yet shadowed by Defoe, it consolidated pirate lore: the X-marked map, the talking parrot, and Long John Silvers unsettling blend of charm, cunning, and menace. Robert Louis Stevenson, the itinerant Scot from a dynasty of lighthouse engineers, grew up amid charts and coast talk. In 1881 he drew a treasure map to entertain his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne; the tale followed in magazine serial, its tautness shaped by that form and by his battles with illness. Travel, seafaring friendships, and moral curiosity supplied the novels ballast: a study in apprenticeship, temptation, and the ethics of command under pressure. Readers of maritime history, students of narrative craft, and adventurers at heart will find Treasure Island both swift and inexhaustible. It is a classic of action and conscience, equally suited to first-time explorers and seasoned scholars seeking the wellspring of modern pirate myth.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Dracula unfolds through diaries, letters, telegrams, a ships log, and phonograph transcripts, assembling a mosaic of testimony that drives its relentless suspense from Transylvania to Whitby and London. Stoker fuses high Gothic atmosphere with the apparatus of modernitytypewriters, rail timetables, and experimental blood transfusionsstage-managing a polyphonic hunt for an elusive predator. The novel channels lateVictorian anxieties about degeneration, sexuality, and "reverse colonization," balancing scientific rationalism with folklore as Van Helsing, Mina, and their cohort confront a foreign, mobile aristocrat who weaponizes secrecy and contagion. Bram Stoker, Dublinborn and educated at Trinity College, combined a disciplined civilservice mind with decades as Henry Irvings manager at Londons Lyceum Theatre, honing a dramatists sense of pacing and spectacle. His Whitby sojourn and meticulous notebooksfed by travel guides, medical journals, and Emily Gerards account of Transylvanian superstitionssupplied the novels geography and lore. The result, published in 1897, synthesizes theatrical set pieces with contemporary debates on criminology, psychology, and technology, reflecting an author fascinated by how modern recordkeeping might battle the uncanny. Recommended for readers of Gothic fiction, cultural historians, and thriller enthusiasts alike, Dracula remains a brisk, unsettling study of modernity besiegedat once pageturning entertainment and a touchstone for interpreting our archival age.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Collected in 1892 after their celebrated run in The Strand Magazine, the twelve stories of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes codify the modern detective tale. Told in Dr. Watsons crisp voice, cases from "A Scandal in Bohemia" to "The Speckled Band" stage deduction against the fog of lateVictorian London. Conan Doyle unites clockwork plotting with forensic attention to triflesash, footprints, timetableswhile sketching class anxieties, performative respectability, and the theater of urban modernity. A Scottish physician trained at Edinburgh under Joseph Bell, Arthur Conan Doyle transformed clinical observation into literary method; Holmess inductions echo Bells pedagogy. Writing between patients at his Southsea practice, he shaped magazine-length "case reports" with sharply defined problems and lucid closures. Sanguine about science yet wary of officialdom, Doyle channels a tension between legal form and a broader moral justice that animates these investigations. Essential for readers of crime fiction and students of narrative art, this collection offers brisk pleasures and durable insight. Begin here to meet Holmes and Watson at their most archetypal, and to watch modern skepticism acquire elegant narrative shape.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set along the Mississippi in fictional St. Petersburg, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer follows a boys pranks and perilswhitewashed fence, midnight graveyard, a cave, a courtroom surpriseinto social initiation. Twain blends picaresque episodes with a coming-of-age arc, using vernacular speech, quick dialogue, and comic set pieces to expose adult hypocrisy and small-town morality. Published in 1876, the novel looks back from Reconstruction to antebellum boyhood, fusing nostalgia with satire to test boundaries between play and peril, make-believe and justice, conscience and community. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), a Missouri-born printers apprentice turned riverboat pilot and journalist, mined his Hannibal childhood for dialects, rituals, and riverine geography. Fascination with the rivers freedoms and hazards, coupled with a reporters skepticism toward cant, shaped Toms exuberance and ambivalence. Influenced by regionalism and impatient with saccharine moralism, Twain treats mischief as a laboratory for ethical awakening rather than grounds for punishment or piety. This edition merits the attention of readers of American literature, teachers, and anyone interested in how style builds character. Read it for its buoyant voice and layered comedy, but also for its quiet anatomy of complicity, courage, and community-making; it remains a supple prelude to Twains darker Huckleberry Finn.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter traces Hester Prynnes public shaming for adultery and the hidden complicities binding Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and the uncanny child Pearl. Hawthorne fashions a dark romance whose ceremonious prose and intrusive narrator weave allegory and psychological realism. Emblemsthe crimson A, scaffold, and foreststructure scenes of light and shadow, while the novel, a hallmark of the American Renaissance, interrogates conscience, authority, and the spectacle of punishment. A descendant of a Salem witch-trials magistrate, Hawthorne long brooded on inherited guilt and New Englands theology; those obsessions suffuse his art. His dismissal from the Salem Custom House and the archival habits it fostered shape the books prefatory frame and its fascination with documents and memory. Years of tale-writing refined his symbolic method, enabling a critique of communal judgment that is historically situated yet inwardly modern. This work rewards readers who prize dense symbolism, ethical complexity, and an exacting historical imagination. Assign it in courses on American literature, religion, or law; or read it privately for its inexhaustible study of shame, secrecy, and forgiveness. Few works so lucidly reveal how personal desire and public authority collide, making The Scarlet Letter indispensable to any library of serious fiction.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsches audacious fusion of philosophy and prophetic drama, composed in four parts (18831885). In parablesthe tightrope walkers fall, the "three metamorphoses" from camel to lion to childand a quasi-biblical cadence, Zarathustra descends to proclaim the Ubermensch, will to power, and eternal recurrence. At once parody of scripture and hymn to self-overcoming, it confronts Europes fin-de-siecle value crisis after the "death of God," anticipating modernism and remaking the philosophical voice. Once a brilliant classical philologist at Basel, Nietzsche wrote amid illness, solitude, and itinerant Alpine winters after breaking with Wagner and Schopenhauers pessimism. The Sils-Maria insight of 1881 crystallized eternal recurrence; engagement with Greek tragedy, Heraclitus, and the pre-Socratics furnished a vocabulary of flux and affirmation. Zarathustra is the mask through which he dramatizes experiments in valuation while rejecting academic system-building. This book rewards readers who embrace its aphoristic leaps and musical refrains: read slowly, aloud, and cyclically, letting motifs return. Essential for students of philosophy, theology, and literature, it offers bracing resources for self-transformation amid cultural disorientation. Approach it not to receive doctrines, but to practice thinking otherwise.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Candide is Voltaires brisk conte philosophique, a picaresque cascade of catastrophes that skewers Leibnizian optimism through irony. Following the guileless Candide, his tutor Pangloss, and the resilient Cunegonde across war-torn Europe, earthquake-shaken Lisbon, Jesuit Paraguay, and the mirage of Eldorado, the tale layers farce upon atrocityshipwrecks, auto-da-fe, enslavementsuntil the counsel to "cultivate our garden." Voltaires lapidary prose, aphoristic wit, and bathos compress philosophical debate into rapid scenes, situating the novella at the Enlightenments crossroads of satire, skepticism, and emerging humanitarian critique in 1759. Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), dramatist, polemicist, and exile, forged his anti-dogmatic temper through Bastille imprisonment, an English sojourn absorbing Locke and Newton, and battles with clerical and royal censors. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, with its theological aftershocks, sharpened his critique of theodicy, while the global entanglements of the Seven Years War furnished his stage of absurdities. Candide distills this cosmopolitan rationalism into narrative experiment rather than abstract treatise. Readers of philosophy, world literature, and political satire will find Candide mordantly entertaining and intellectually bracing. Attentive to its allusions and historical shocks, the book remains startlingly modern in ethical urgency. For skeptics and seekers alike, few works better teach howand whyto cultivate ones garden.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Happy Healthy Sober will inspire you to look at your relationship with alcohol and encourage you to ditch the booze to live your best life. Have you woken up at 3 a.m. berating yourself for drinking too much? Have you tried ditching the booze without success?In this book, Janey provides a personal, unique and most importantly fun guide to having a fabulous alcohol free life. She gives you the keys to making sobriety and a healthy lifestyle cool, memorable and tremendously appealing.Happy Healthy Sober is a fantastic resource for an alcohol-free life, Janeys holistic approach allows you to connect to whats important to your mind, heart, body and soul.The first 30 days of sobriety are the most difficult. This book will help you stay on track.

"I have a great mind to go to Italy and be a nun, but I dont think I should like it."Long before she created Elizabeth Bennet or Emma Woodhouse, a teenage Jane Austen was already skewering the tropes of 18th-century literature. Juvenilia Volume I is a riotous collection of "scraps" and "sketches" that displays none of the refined restraint of her later novels. Instead, readers are treated to dark humor, absurd plots, and characters who drink too much, marry too often, and faint with alarming frequency. From the chaotic social blunders of "Frederic and Elfrida" to the wild escapades of "Henry and Eliza," this volume offers a rare, unvarnished look at the birth of a satirist who would go on to change the world of fiction.The Roots of Satire: In these early pages, Austen mocks the "Sirs" and "Madams" of the sentimental novels she grew up reading. She takes the dramatic cliches of her timevows of eternal friendship, tragic coincidences, and fainting fitsand pushes them to a level of hilarious absurdity. It is a masterclass in parody that shows a young girl already in full command of her wit.A Window into the Austen Household: These stories were meant to be read aloud to the Austen family at Steventon Rectory. They reflect the lively, intellectual, and often irreverent atmosphere in which Jane was raised. Many stories are dedicated to her siblings or cousins, making the volume an intimate piece of literary history that bridges the gap between a private family hobby and public masterpiece.Dark Comedy and High Energy: Readers expecting the polite drawing rooms of Mansfield Park will be surprised by the energy here. In "Jack and Alice," for example, we find a world of "red-faced" drinking and physical comedy. This volume proves that Austen was always a rebel at heart, using her pen to puncture the pomposity of the world around her from the very start.Discover the girl behind the genius. Purchase "Juvenilia Volume I" today.

"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patienceor give it a more fascinating name: call it hope."When Mr. Henry Dashwood dies, his estate passes to his son from a first marriage, leaving his second wife and three daughtersElinor, Marianne, and Margaretnearly destitute. Forced to move to the modest Barton Cottage in Devonshire, the sisters must navigate the treacherous waters of love and social standing with very different philosophies. Elinor, representing "Sense," possesses a cautious, composed nature that hides a deep well of emotion. Marianne, representing "Sensibility," is passionate, impulsive, and unashamedly romantic. As they encounter the reserved Edward Ferrars, the dashing but unreliable John Willoughby, and the steadfast Colonel Brandon, both sisters must learn that life requires a delicate balance between the head and the heart.A Study in Contrasts: Austen brilliantly pits the restraint of the Enlightenment against the rising tide of Romanticism. Through the sisters parallel heartbreaks, she examines whether it is better to suffer in dignified silence or to give oneself entirely over to the "luxury of grief."The Reality of Regency Survival: Beyond the romance, the novel is a sharp critique of the economic vulnerability of women in the 1800s. Without an inheritance, the Dashwood sisters only "career" path is marriage, making every social interaction a high-stakes negotiation for their future security.The Redemption of the Heart: From the rainy rescue on the hills of Devonshire to the painful betrayals in London ballrooms, Sense and Sensibility is a story of resilience. It is a masterpiece that proves that while "sense" may protect the heart, "sensibility" is what makes life worth living.Find your balance. Purchase "Sense and Sensibility" today.

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."Meet J., Harris, and Georgethree quintessential Victorian gentlemen who convince themselves they are suffering from "overwork" and every malady in the medical dictionary (except housemaids knee). Their cure? A leisurely rowing trip up the River Thames from Kingston to Oxford. Accompanied by the worlds most cynical fox terrier, Montmorency, the trio embarks on a journey filled with disastrous cooking, tangled tow-lines, unreliable barometers, and the eternal struggle of opening a tin of pineapple without a tin-opener.The Comedy of the Everyman: Jerome K. Jeromes genius lies in his ability to find the universal in the mundane. Whether its the chaotic attempt to hang a picture by Uncle Podger or the legendary "Cheese" story that drives an entire train carriage to madness, the humor is as fresh and relatable today as it was in the 1880s.A Love Letter to the Thames: Between the slapstick and the satire, the novel contains beautiful, lyrical descriptions of the river. It captures a specific moment in British history when the Thames was transitioning from a commercial highway to a place of leisure and "messing about in boats."A Timeless Remedy for Stress: Three Men in a Boat remains the perfect antidote to the "seriousness" of modern life. It celebrates friendship, the absurdity of human nature, and the idea that the best stories come from the things that go spectacularly wrong.Pack your bags (but leave the heavy cheeses behind). Purchase "Three Men in a Boat" today and laugh your way up the river.

"Beneath the church of Moonfleet, a secret lies buried in the darkand some secrets are better left untouched."In the fog-drenched coastal village of Moonfleet, young orphan John Trenchard accidentally stumbles upon the secret vault of the Mohune family while hiding in the church graveyard. There, he discovers the entrance to a smuggling tunnel and the restless spirit of "Blackbeard" Mohune, a man whose lost diamond is said to be cursed. Taken under the wing of the gruff innkeeper Elzevir Block, John is thrust into a dangerous world of midnight runs, revenue men, and the search for a treasure hidden within a coded message from the grave. From the cliffs of Dorset to the terrifying depths of the Carisbrooke well, Moonfleet is a masterpiece of suspense and high-stakes survival.A Classic Adventure of Honor and Loyalty: At its heart, the story is about the relationship between John and Elzevir. Block, who lost his own son to the law, finds a surrogate in John. Their loyalty to one another is tested by imprisonment, storms at sea, and the corrupting influence of the legendary Mohune diamond.The Gothic Atmosphere of the Sea: Falkner excels at creating a sense of dread and mystery. The sound of the "snoring" of the surf on the beach and the haunting imagery of the Mohune crypt provide a Gothic backdrop to the fast-paced action. It captures the historical reality of the "free traders" (smugglers) who operated along the English coast when the law was often as cruel as the sea itself.The Search for Blackbeards Diamond: The quest for the diamond leads John and Elzevir far from the shores of Moonfleet. The tension peaks as they attempt to decode the mystery of the diamonds locationa journey that proves that the greatest treasures are often found in the people we love, rather than the gems we seek.Uncover the secret of the Mohunes. Purchase "Moonfleet" today and embark on the ultimate maritime adventure.

The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingways breakthrough novel and a defining work of modernist literature. Following a group of expatriates traveling through Europe after World War I, the novel captures themes of alienation, masculinity, love, and moral emptiness. Written in Hemingways distinctive, restrained style, this novel remains a powerful portrait of a generation searching for meaning in a fractured world.

Evelina is a landmark 18th-century novel that helped shape the modern novel of manners. Frances Burney follows a young womans entrance into society, revealing social hypocrisy, gender constraints, and personal growth with wit and sensitivity. Influential on later writers such as Jane Austen, this novel remains essential for understanding the evolution of English fiction.

John Lockes Second Treatise of Government offers a lucid, juridical argument for political authority founded on natural law and consent. From a state of nature governed by reason, Locke derives a labor theory of property, the money convention, and limits on accumulation. He delineates fiduciary legislative power, executive prerogative, and a right of resistance, rebutting Filmers divine-right absolutism and shaping early liberal constitutionalism. An Oxford-trained physician and philosopher, Locke served Anthony Ashley Cooper, experienced exile in the Dutch Republic, and witnessed the Exclusion Crisis and the Glorious Revolution; the Two Treatises appeared anonymously in 1689. His administrative and colonial entanglements (e.g., the Carolina constitutions) informed chapters on property, conquest, and slavery, while his tolerationism and empiricism pressed against arbitrary rule. Scholars, lawyers, and citizens alike should read this Treatise for its elegant architecture and enduring theses on consent, property, and limited governmentand also critically, for its tensions over slavery and empire. As a foundation text of modern constitutionalism, it rewards close study alongside Hobbes, Filmer, and later republican and liberal thinkers.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

In The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), Smollett fashions a polyphonic epistolary tour of Britain in which a gouty Welsh squire, his scheming sister, their spirited niece and nephew, a hilariously unlettered maid, and companions view Bath, London, and Scotland from clashing angles. The novel blends picaresque momentum with social reportage: spas, coaching inns, assemblies, and playhouses become stages for satire tempered by sympathy. Its lettersfrom Brambles irascible complaints to Win Jenkinss phonetic blundersanatomize post-Union identities, medical fashions, and the pressures of urban modernity, even as sentiment softens judgment. Smollett, a Scottish surgeon-turned-man of letters, drew on medical training, editorial combat, and hard-won travel experience (not least his Travels Through France and Italy) to shape this late masterpiece. Composed in the shadow of illness and partial exile in Italy, the book refines his earlier asperities into comic benevolence without sacrificing diagnostic bite. This novel suits readers seeking both laughter and layered cultural history: students of eighteenth-century fiction, travel writing, and British nationhood will find a lucid primer and a sophisticated case study. Admirers of Fielding and Sterne alike will relish its energy; newcomers will discover a generous, stylistically dazzling guide to a society on the move.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Sense & Sensibility (1811) traces Elinor and Marianne Dashwood from dispossession at Norland Park to Barton Cottage and London, staging the friction between prudence and passion in ties with Edward Ferrars, Colonel Brandon, and John Willoughby. In poised irony and early free indirect style, Austen reworks the sentimental novel into a comedy of manners alert to money, rank, and reputation, exposing entail and primogeniture as engines that commodify feeling. A clergymans daughter from Hampshire (17751817), Austen began the tale in the 1790s as the epistolary "Elinor and Marianne," revising it at Chawton before publishing anonymously as "By a Lady." Family brushes with financial insecurity and long observation of gentry sociability, conduct books, and circulatinglibrary fiction sharpen her ethical realism and her measured skepticism toward fashionable displays of sensibility. Read this novel for a lucid account of how hearts and fortunes are schooled by society. It welcomes newcomers to Austens art while rewarding scholars of the British novel, gendered economics, and narrative technique. Wise, witty, and unsentimental about sentiment, Sense & Sensibility remains a bracing study of sisterhood, prudence, and desire under the constraints of custom, capital, and reputation.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Platos Republic is a dramatic Socratic dialogue that interrogates the nature of justice in the individual and the city, weaving dialectical argument with myth and images. Across ten books, Socrates and his interlocutors construct the kallipolis, governed by philosopher-kings, articulate the tripartite soul, and advance a rigorous program of education, including music, gymnastics, and mathematics. The analogies of the Sun and the Divided Line culminate in the Allegory of the Cave, situating politics within a metaphysics of Forms and a critique of poetry and mimesis. Composed in the early fourth century BCE, the work bears the imprint of Platos aristocratic Athenian upbringing, the trauma of the Peloponnesian War, and, above all, the execution of his teacher Socrates. As founder of the Academy, Plato seeks a curriculum for rulers, reshaping civic life through philosophical training and ethical discipline, against the perceived excesses of democratic and oligarchic regimes. Readers interested in political theory, moral psychology, education, or epistemology will find The Republic inexhaustible. Approach it patiently, attending to its dramatic form as well as its arguments; it rewards with a vision of civic order linked to the quest for truth, and a bracing challenge to our assumptions about freedom and culture.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.