Books & Literature
The Written Word
Lord of the Flies: Novel vs. Netflix Series
Coincidentally, right after I finished reading the novel Lord of the Flies for the first time, Netflix released a 4-episode...
Examination Day | A Short Story by Henry Slesar
A friend recommended that I read the short story Examination Day by Henry Slesar—and now I understand why...
The War Prayer by Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote The War Prayer in 1905, in response to the Spanish–American War and the subsequent Philippine–American War. It...
Live Not By Lies by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested for publishing Live Not by Lies. He said: "Let the lie come into the world, let...
Ethics In Diet
The abuse, cruelty, and suffering inflicted upon the animals in factory farms, plus FREE ebook: The First Step, or The...
The Law of Love & The Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy states that the true Christian doctrine consists only in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life,...
The Lowest Animal by Mark Twain
In The Lowest Animal, Mark Twain describes how animals often show greater civility than humans, causing him to ponder man's...
Announcement: Introducing Compass Bookstore!
I've been reading & writing since I was a kid, and now blogging for many years, all the while constantly...
Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Biography
Dostoyevsky is typically regarded as one of the greatest novelists who ever lived, in both Russian and international literature, with...
Novel Recommendation: A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava
The 864-page tome A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava is as one of the most engaging novels I've...
On The Shortness of Life by Lucius Seneca
On the Shortness of Life was written by the Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, aka Seneca the Younger, wherein he...
A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard: Free Ebook!
I recently discovered this little story by Elbert Hubbard, and it really resonated with me...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
I am now publishing ebooks here on Lifeology, free for readers to download. So today, I've added Henry David Thoreau's...
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free Ebook: download Ralph Waldo Emerson's renowned essay Self-Reliance...
