18th Century
The Age of Enlightenment blazes with revolutionary ideas about human nature, knowledge, and society, played out against a backdrop of powdered wigs, sailing ships, and candlelit salons. Here you'll find philosophical treatises that shaped modern thought alongside tales of adventure and scandal from an era when reason and passion collided in spectacular ways.
18th Century Book Summaries
Les liaisons dangereuses
Classics
France
Romance
Robinson Crusoe
Classics
Adventure
Literature
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Philosophy
Classics
German Literature
Critique of Judgment
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Critique of Practical Reason
Philosophy
Classics
German Literature
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Classics
China
Historical Fiction
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Vathek
Gothic
Classics
Horror
England's Mistress
The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
History
Biography
Historical
Preface to Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Classics
Literary Criticism
امیل
Philosophy
Education
Classics
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Philosophy
Classics
Metaphysics
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Philosophy
Classics
18th Century
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume's Philosophical Inquiry into Human Knowledge and Reasoning
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Philosophy
History
Theory
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Philosophy
Religion
Classics
Abundance
Historical Fiction
France
Historical
The Songbird of Venice
Historical Romance
Historical Fiction
Italy
The Monk
Classics
Gothic
Horror
The Silk Weaver
Historical Fiction
Romance
Historical
