The classics, in the English you already speak.
Twenty-eight public-domain works of philosophy, politics, economics, and science, each rewritten sentence by sentence into clear modern prose. Nothing is summarized or cut. Read them here, or take the EPUB with you. Free, without an account.
Start here
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Meditations
A Roman emperor’s private notes on keeping your head. The best first classic there is.
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The Prince
Machiavelli on power, without flinching. Five hundred years old and still uncomfortable.
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu’s short, exact manual on strategy, read by generals and founders alike.
The shelf
The Stoics and the Greeks
Power and the state
Reason and the mind
Markets, money, and the world
A note on the text
Each edition starts from a public-domain source. A pipeline cuts the work into passages, rewrites every passage into modern English with a language model, and then checks each rewrite against its source for dropped content, changed meaning, summarizing, and stray commentary. Passages that fail are revised and checked again; those that still fail are never published.
The result is a complete modern reading of the whole work, not an abridgement. It is also machine prose reviewed by a machine, so treat it as a way in, and quote the original when it matters. The pipeline, prompts, and site are open source; the colophon explains the method in full.