The Sorrows of Young Werther

Author

J.M. Coetzee

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize for literature, J.M. Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal...

Author	Joseph Conrad
ISBN	0486424529

Nostromo, Joseph Conrad’s South American novel reminds me somehow of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, perhaps the setting of mines in South America.

The underlying political ideologies are also reminiscent to some extent on Rand’s objectivism, and both author’s guileless mistrust...

Author	Peter Gay
ISBN	0393328619

Brilliant biography of Freud (probably the best since Ernest Jones’s three v. effort). Heavy emphasis on ideas, especially within the nineteenth century context (both bourgeois Vienna & 19th c. scientific -- e.g., Darwin & physiological school). Treats the psychoanalytic movement,...

Author	Mark Twain
ISBN	1843910055

"Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself," notes Adam in his diary, adding, "The new creature does. It goes out in all weathers. And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here."
Adam has a lot to learn about Eve, and even more from her, as she names the animals, discovers fire,...

Author	Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN	0140442278

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women and many other themes is taken...

Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
ISBN	0060907274

This selection includes the original poems in German with their translations and commentary.

Contents:
I live my life --
I have many brothers --
We don't dare --
I love the dark hours --
You darkness, that I come from --
I have faith --
I am too alone --
You see,...

Author	Liviu Rebreanu
ISBN	0720646502

Liviu Rebreanu mărturisea la un moment dat că în lunga perioadă de şapte ani, cât a durat scrierea romanului „Ion“, un rol important l-a avut, pe lânga amplul material documentar, o scenă văzută pe colinele dimprejurul satului şi care l-a impresionat în mod deosebit. Aflat la vânătoare,...

Author	Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN	0872203549

Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English,...