Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays

10 best books like Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays (Joseph Addison): Common Sense, The Mysterious Island, Samson Agonistes, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, Apology, The Dragon and the George, The Mark of Zorro, Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar, Absalom and Achitophel, Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

Common Sense

Author	Thomas Paine
ISBN	0143036254

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them.

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The Mysterious Island

Author	Jules Verne
ISBN	0812972120

I can't remember the number of times I have re-read this Verne masterpiece and discovered something new every time I had. In fact, my book has become so frayed around the edges over the years that I fear I won't be able to open it anymore without being afraid of ruining the pages or the cover for good.
Trying...

Samson Agonistes

Author

John Milton

A tragedy by John Milton, it is considered the greatest English drama based on the Greek model and is known as one more suited for reading than performance. The work deals with the final phase of Samson's life and recounts the story as told in the Old Testament Book of Judges. Himself blind when he wrote...

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Author	Samuel Johnson
ISBN	0192839136

Written in one week to defray the cost of his mother's funeral, Johnson's moral tale is a superior example of the prose of its era, and its era—the Age of Enlightenment—is renowned for the quality of its prose. It is true that Candide—written in 1759, the same year as Rasselas--excels Johnson's...

Apology

Author	Plato
ISBN	0865163480

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier...

The Dragon and the George

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0345350502

Jim Eckert was a dragon. He hadn't planned it that way, but that's what happened when he set out to rescue his betrothed. Following her through an erratic astral-projection machine, Jim suddenly found himself in a cockeyed world - locked in the body of a talking dragon named Gorbash.
That wouldn't...

The Mark of Zorro

Author	Johnston McCulley
ISBN	0812540077

Old California, in a bygone era of sprawling haciendas and haughty caballeros, suffers beneath the whip-lash of oppression. Missions are pillaged, native peasants are abused, and innocent men and women are persecuted by the corrupt governor and his army.

But a champion of freedom rides...

Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar

Author	Rob Goodman
ISBN	0312681232

The first biography of the final man to stand against Caesar—whose principles and defiance became a rallying cry for future revolutions

He was Rome’s bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier who slept on the ground with his troops, a Stoic philosopher and staunch defender of the...

Absalom and Achitophel

Author	John Dryden
ISBN	1419104535

Excerpt from Absalom and Achitophel:

'Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age.'

But these lines prove nothing, being probably prompted by no other motive than the desire of the moment to please an Oxford audience. A passage in a letter from Dryden...

Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

Author	Brian Kilmeade
ISBN	0735213232

Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.

When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the...

The 33 Strategies of War

Author	Robert Greene
ISBN	0670034576

Brilliant distillations of the strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and Mastery

Robert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and his latest book, Mastery, espouse profound,...