Great Ideas

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23 Aug 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Penguin's Great Ideas series.

Challenge Books

1

On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

2

The Symposium by Plato

The Symposium

Plato

3

What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir

What Is Existentialism?

Penguin Great Ideas

Simone de Beauvoir

4

Being Happy by Epicurus

Being Happy

Penguin Great Ideas

Epicurus

5

How To Be a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epictetus

How To Be a Stoic

Penguin Great Ideas

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epictetus

6

Of Human Freedom by Epictetus

Of Human Freedom

Epictetus

7

The Sickness unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard

The Sickness unto Death

Kierkegaard's Writings

Søren Kierkegaard

8

Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard

9

An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant

An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

Immanuel Kant

10

Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche

Man Alone with Himself

Friedrich Nietzsche

11

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

12

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus