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 set:

• 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.