Theodore Earnest O’Hare — Theo to everyone who knows him — is seventeen, restless, and always falling asleep over his homework. Each time he drifts off, he wakes up inside the book he was studying. Your choices determine how his story unfolds.
The Trial of Socrates
Theo standing trial alongside Socrates in Plato’s Apology and Crito
The Hemlock Cup
Theo witnessing Socrates’ final hours in Plato’s Phaedo
The Golden Mean
Theo debating virtue and the good life in Aristotle’s Ethics
The Golden World
Theo unraveling tragedy and rhetoric in Aristotle’s Poetics
The First Cause
Theo grappling with being and causation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
The Evil Genius
Theo doubting everything alongside Descartes in the Meditations
The Prince’s Gambit
Theo navigating the treacherous courts of Machiavelli’s Prince
The Dangerous Perhaps
Theo walking the razor’s edge of Nietzsche’s philosophy
Fall of the Republic
Theo caught in the conspiracies of Rome’s dying Republic, from History & Humanities I
The Parchment and the Sword
Theo surviving the upheavals from Alfred the Great to the Reformation, from History & Humanities II
The Balance of Power
Theo entangled in the power struggles from Elizabeth I to the Great War, from History & Humanities III
The War That Changed the World
Theo lost in the devastation of the Thirty Years’ War, from History & Humanities III
Words at War
Theo confronting the machinery of wartime propaganda, from The Sage of Baltimore and War: A Debate in Primary Sources
Theo and the Ten Days
Theo trading tales with Boccaccio’s storytellers during the plague, from Tales of the Decameron
Immortal Lines
Theo decoding the mysteries hidden in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Between the Lines
Theo stepping inside the worlds of Chekhov, Joyce, and Hemingway, from Reading the Modern Short Story
The Green Light
Theo chasing illusions through Fitzgerald’s glittering Long Island, from The Great Gatsby
The Sage’s Apprentice
Theo matching wits with H.L. Mencken in smoky 1920s Baltimore, from The Sage of Baltimore
The Thinker’s Labyrinth
Theo testing his mind against the full arsenal of critical thinking, from The Thinking Toolkit
The Sacred Roundtable
Theo convening the great religions at a mystical amphitheater, from Religious Roundtable
The Cloister and the Cell
Theo seeking wisdom among monks from the Desert Fathers to the present, from The Cloister and the Cell