>>9355059i hate how that shit works
>write short essay, maybe at most 20 pages>hundreds of years later>you can only purchase it in a 200 page book with analysis by some random faggot you don't care aboutthe prince and the art of war are really short but you can almost never find the pure text. some of kierkegaard's essays are short too, as is tractatus logico-philosophicus and meditations, but some ivy league faggot thinks people buy classic works to hear their opinions on them instead of to read the damn thing themselves