Great Ideas Box Set #1

by Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Paine, Friedrich Nietzsche

Highlights from Penguin's Great Ideas series in an affordable six-book boxed set

The perfect gift for the true book lover, the Great Ideas series offers groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers packaged with beautiful type-driven covers that highlight the bookmaker's art. Now six favorites from our initial list of twelve are available as a boxed

Common Sense , by Thomas Paine
Meditations , by Marcus Aurelius
On the Shortness of Life , by Seneca
The Prince , by Niccolò Machiavelli
Why I Am So Wise , by Friedrich Nietzsche
Why I Write , by George Orwell

Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, the Great Ideas Boxed Set is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the great ideas that have shaped our world.

Paperback

First published October 31, 2006

About the author

The Prince , book of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian political theorist, in
1513 describes an indifferent ruler to moral considerations with determination to achieve and to maintain power.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a philosopher, musician, and poet, wrote plays. He figured centrally in component of the Renaissance, and people most widely know his realist treatises on the one hand and republicanism of Discourses on Livy .

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