Great Ideas series one - Penguin Books Ltd

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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. 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.

And now you can tell us which book you think changed our world.

Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
St Augustine
Thomas a Kempis
Niccolo Machiavelli
Michel de Montaigne
Jonathan Swift
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edward Gibbon
Thomas Paine
Mary Wollstonecraft
William Hazlitt
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Arthur Schopenhauer
John Ruskin
Charles Darwin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Virginia Woolf
Sigmund Freud
George Orwell

On the Shortness of Life
Meditations
Confessions of a Sinner
The Inner Life
The Prince
On Friendship
A Tale of a Tub
The Social Contract
The Christians and the Fall of Rome
Common Sense
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
On the Pleasure of Hating
The Communist Manifesto
On the Suffering of the World
On Art and Life
On Natural Selection
Why I Am So Wise
A Room of One's Own
Civilization and its Discontents
Why I Write