This two-volume series includes 15 selections and a Reader's Aid with interpretive questions for each selection.

Rothschild's Fiddle*

Anton Chekhov

On Happiness

Aristotle

The Apology*

Plato

Heart of Darkness*

Joseph Conrad

Conscience

Immanuel Kant

Alienated Labour

Karl Marx

Genesis

Bible

Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmond Freud

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals

Charles Darwin

Othello*

William Shakespeare

Of Justice and Injustice

David Hume

The Power of the Majority

Alexis de Tocqueville

Individual Freedom

Georg Simmel

Antigone*

Sophocles

*Indicates a complete work. All other selections are taken from longer works.