Greatman's Library: Classics Collection

The Greatman’s Library Classics Collection is a carefully assembled treasury of the enduring works that have shaped literature, culture, and thought across the centuries. It spans the full arc of the Western canon, from the epic poetry of antiquity to the novels, essays, and dramas that defined later ages. Inside you’ll find epic tales, tragedies, comedies, romances, philosophical dialogues, political writings, and essays that have left an indelible mark on civilisation.

The collection moves through the great traditions of Greece and Rome, the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the intellectual ferment of the Enlightenment, and the flourishing of modern literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. It also includes essential works that influenced the political and cultural direction of nations, shaping ideals of liberty, virtue, heroism, and human destiny.

More than a literary archive, the Classics Collection demonstrates how timeless stories and ideas have been transmitted, reinterpreted, and lived by successive generations. These works are not only monuments of artistic expression but also sources of wisdom, inspiration, and moral reflection. Both fiction and non-fiction are represented, giving readers the opportunity to encounter the full breadth of human imagination and intellect.

Whether you seek the eloquence of Homer, the wit of Shakespeare, the vision of Dante, or the searching questions of modern novelists and essayists, this collection offers a comprehensive and structured pathway into the literature that has defined the course of civilisation.

What’s Covered in The Greatman’s Library: Classics Collection

Ancient Foundations

• Greek epics and drama — Homer, Hesiod, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
• Roman literature — Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Cicero, Seneca
• Early historical and philosophical texts — Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle

Medieval & Renaissance Masterworks

• Christian and medieval literature — Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas
• Dante’s Divine Comedy and Petrarch’s humanism
• Renaissance drama — Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cervantes
• Early political thought — Machiavelli, More

Enlightenment & Early Modern Classics

• Satire and reason — Voltaire, Swift, Montesquieu
• Foundations of political philosophy — Locke, Rousseau
• Early novels — Defoe, Richardson, Fielding
• Poetry and imagination — Milton, Pope, Goethe

Nineteenth-Century Literature & Thought

• Romanticism — Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats
• American classics — Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau
• Realism and social critique — Dickens, Balzac, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky
• Philosophy and society — Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche
• Epic novels of the age — Hugo, Flaubert, Eliot

Modern & Twentieth-Century Works

• Early modernist fiction — Conrad, James, Proust
• Literature of ideas — Shaw, Ibsen, Freud
• Poetic revolutions — Yeats, Eliot, Pound
• Political and cultural reflections — Orwell, Camus, Mann
• The persistence of epic and myth in modern narrative

Themes & Legacy

• Heroism and tragedy in human history
• Love, morality, and the human condition
• Liberty, governance, and social order
• Faith, reason, and the search for meaning
• The role of art and imagination in shaping civilisation