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Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, Albert Camus's essay is a searching inquiry into the origins of the hubris and fanaticism that laid waste to twentieth-century Europe.

I Want to Die, I Hate My Life is at once a searching philosophical engagement with tragedy and a bracing argument against the widespread tendency to reduce literary texts to mere illustrations of philosophical ideas.

The Naturing Cosmos inaugurates a major new dialogue between philosophy, design theory, and ecology.

This Edition of Nietzsche's work serves to redress the comparative neglect that this seminal text--presented here in an elegant bilingual format--has suffered in Nietzsche studies.

The Darkroom contains Marguerite Duras Film scripts and writings about film.

Freud demonstrates through literary, mythical, and folktale examples the extraordinary way that wishes manifest themselves in people's dreams.

Written when Austen was still an adolescent, Frederic and Elfrida is a witty and inventive parody that brilliantly sends up the conventions of romantic fiction.

Virginia Woolf's third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character-an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War.

These essays are a testimony to the polymathic reach of Aldous Huxley's intellect, as well as to the relish with which he entered into some of his more surprising enthusiasms.

Victoria is an incisive study of the coercive power of economic and social forces that is also renowned for its innovative and psychologically probing narrative techniques.

Pharos and Pharillon is a brilliant work of travel writing by one of the last century's great observers of human affairs.

Joseph Conrad's last completed novel is a masterpiece of narrative tension and psychological insight.

Fancies versus Fads is a brilliant introduction to one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century literature.

These beautifully translated works demonstrate why Chekhov's short fiction has achieved universal acclaim.

William Hazlitt's essay on the ludicrousness of monarchy shows him at his best.

Plutarch's essay takes on an unusual philosophical problem: people who talk too much.

T. S. Eliot's advocacy of "impersonality" as a literary ideal in Tradition and the Individual Talent had an immeasurable impact on Modernist literature and continues to resonate today.

In In Defense of the Bullfight, Francis Wolff makes a provocative argument against the view that bullfighting is the ultimate cruel sport.

Paul Lafargue spells out with unrivaled clarity the damage inflicted by the myth that endless work is morally virtuous.

A vigorous assault on the idea that there is something transformative or ennobling about recreational travel.

Virginia Woolf's reflections on sickness, fiction, and the chilling indifference of the natural world.

An outstanding literary portrayal of the shadow cast by the First World War.

A unique combination of poetry and photography, Hungry Ghosts is a thrilling evocation of the disturbing visions and the yearnings for a world beyond that have fed both ancient and modern understandings of the afterlife.

Justice in Palestine is an essential work by one of the twentieth century¿s most powerful and authoritative voices.

in English for the first time, the letters that Modersohn-Becker and Rilke sent to one another