We've added a new series of audio books entitled "Books That Changed the World". This series features "biographies" of some of the most influential books in history. These nine books you've probably heard of, but you may not have had a chance to read them in their entirety. The series features nine of today's great writers and historians providing an in-depth looks at these works and the ways in which they have shaped our world. Here are the nine books in the series:
On the Wealth of Nations by P.J. O'Rourke
The Qur'an: A Biography by Bruce Lawrence
Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Browne
Plato's Republic by Simon Blackburn
Clausewitz's on War by Hew Strachan
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man by Christopher Hitchens
The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
Marx's Das Kapital by Francis Wheen
Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography by Alberto Manguel
Dive deeper into some of the great books in history!
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