History

Like all of Hermann Hesses’ major works, the Demian, written by the 40-year-old author in the midst of World War I, has an unusual as well as fascinating origin and effect storey. The fact that this book was completed in October 1917 but only published in June 1919, a year after the war ended, was […]

1984 is a striking and unsettling work that establishes a perfectly plausible imagined universe from beginning to end. No one can doubt the novel’s ability to capture the imaginations of entire generations, or the strength of its warnings—power that appears to expand, rather than diminish, with the passage of time.

Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and captivating women of our time, with a life filled with meaning and success. She helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history as First Lady of the United States of America, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women

When Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, it was widely regarded as a watershed moment in human thought. It is the starting point for all subsequent economic theory since it is the first scientific justification for the principles of political economics. In modern economics, Smith’s theories of capital accumulation, growth, and

Before the war, Viktor Frankl was a well-known Viennese psychiatrist who was perfectly positioned to examine how he and other detainees dealt with the horrors of Auschwitz. He saw that the guys who consoled others and gave up their last bit of bread lived the longest, demonstrating that everything can be taken away from us