Book Detective

Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to beautiful surroundings i¿½ no matter what their class.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves i¿½ and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives i¿½ and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Useful Work versus Useless Toil by William Morris

Illuminations by Walter Benjamin

The Voice of Reason by Ayn Rand

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson

Rationalism in Politics by Michael Oakeshott

The Silence of Animals by John Gray

What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson

Reality Hunger by David Shields

Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays by Louis Althusser

Sex, Art, and American Culture by Camille Paglia

Against Everything by Mark Greif

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Arguably by Christopher Hitchens

Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt

Why I Write by George Orwell

Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens

Upside Down by Eduardo Galeano

Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

What's Wrong With The World by G. K. Chesterton

Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia