The Reading Room Whole books, not summaries. Each one is out of copyright in both the original and the translation, so it can live here in full — the first chapter is open to everyone and the rest comes with a membership.
A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind 11 chapters · 27k words tr. G. D. H. Cole, 1913 A Treatise of Human Nature 12 chapters · 226k words A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 14 chapters · 86k words Acres of Diamonds 17 chapters · 44k words An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 14 chapters · 58k words An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 3 chapters · 150k words An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 22 chapters · 381k words Apology 6 chapters · 16k words tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871 As a Man Thinketh 4 chapters · 8k words Beyond Good and Evil 10 chapters · 63k words tr. Helen Zimmern, 1907 Civil Disobedience 43 chapters · 116k words Common Sense 9 chapters · 22k words Crito 20 chapters · 52k words tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871 Democracy and Education 56 chapters · 136k words Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 12 chapters · 36k words Discourse on Method 6 chapters · 23k words tr. John Veitch, 1850 Dream Psychology 22 chapters · 54k words tr. M. D. Eder, 1920 Essays 3 chapters · 114k words Essays of Michel de Montaigne 3 chapters · 526k words tr. Charles Cotton, 1877 Essays, First Series 12 chapters · 74k words Ethics 7 chapters · 88k words tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 2 chapters · 279k words Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals 12 chapters · 31k words tr. T. K. Abbott, 1873 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day 6 chapters · 13k words Leviathan 6 chapters · 213k words Meditations 3 chapters · 72k words tr. George Long, 1862 My Life and Work 20 chapters · 93k words Mysticism and Logic 29 chapters · 72k words Nicomachean Ethics 20 chapters · 113k words tr. W. D. Ross, 1925 On Liberty 5 chapters · 52k words Perpetual Peace 22 chapters · 54k words tr. M. Campbell Smith, 1903 Phaedo 17 chapters · 43k words tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871 Poetics 7 chapters · 15k words tr. S. H. Butcher, 1902 Politics 8 chapters · 102k words tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1885 Pragmatism 22 chapters · 52k words Principles of Political Economy 15 chapters · 239k words Second Treatise of Government 22 chapters · 57k words Self-Help 17 chapters · 140k words Symposium 12 chapters · 33k words tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871 The Age of Reason 5 chapters · 72k words The Birth of Tragedy 2 chapters · 54k words tr. W. A. Haussmann, 1909 The Communist Manifesto 4 chapters · 11k words tr. Samuel Moore, 1888 The Confessions of Saint Augustine 13 chapters · 112k words tr. E. B. Pusey, 1838 The Critique of Pure Reason 4 chapters · 209k words tr. J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 1855 The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind 4 chapters · 55k words The Enchiridion 5 chapters · 11k words tr. T. W. Higginson, 1865 The Genealogy of Morals 22 chapters · 55k words tr. Horace B. Samuel, 1913 The Principles of Psychology 3 chapters · 279k words The Principles of Scientific Management 2 chapters · 36k words The Problems of Philosophy 15 chapters · 43k words Show 10 more · 50 of 60