Essential writings digitally reformatted and edited for pleasure, inspiration, and edification. 

 

These reprints are intended for pleasurable and sustained reading rather than for academic study. They are offered in the spirit of the Great Books tradition, inviting readers to engage a classic text as a living work— meant to be read and reflected upon today. The translations in this volume have been lightly updated to reduce archaic language and to improve readability, while preserving the sense and integrity of the original English rendering. In keeping with this aim, the translator’s footnotes that accompanied the original edition have not been included, allowing the text itself to be read with greater continuity and ease.