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Tocqueville Alexis de
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859) was a French philosopher. His ‘Democracy in America’ is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, and above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.
Darwin Charles
There have been few books written of more significance than ‘The Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882). Although some of the detail has superseded by subsequent scientific progress, the book remains central to current evolutionary theory.
Dante
Dante Alighieri (1265? – 1321) is considered the finest poet that Italy has ever produced, and is also celebrated as a major influence on western European culture through his major work, ‘The Divine Comedy’.
Clausewitz Carl von
Carl von Clausewitz (1780 – 1831) was a Prussian professional soldier, who achieved fame as a military theorist, and his classic work, ‘On War’, has become one of the most inflential books on the philosophy of warfare.
Bunyan John
John Bunyan (1628-1688) was the writer of ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’, that was at one stage the second most popular book after the the Bible.
Boccaccio Giovanni
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is heralded as one of Europe’s foremost storytellers. Boccaccio is renowned for ‘Decameron’, a collection of one hundred novellas, and widely recognised as a masterpiece of world literature.
Aristotle
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics.
Ali Abdullah Yusuf
Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf (1872 – 1953) was an Indian Islamic scholar who translated the Qur’an into English. His translation is one of the most widely-known and used in the English-speaking world.
Spyri Johanna
Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) was a Swiss writer, and ‘Heidi’, her story of the Swiss orphan girl sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps, has been a perennial favourite since its publication in 1880.