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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.

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.

D. H. Lawrence's poetry is infused with the same bold, experimental spirit that animated the work of his greatest contemporaries while at the same being profoundly idiosyncratic.

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.

A transformative contribution the European epic tradition, Paradise Lost is for many readers the single greatest work in the English literary canon.

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

Wilfully Blind is an unforgettable account of what has gone wrong in the art world, and of what can be done to change it.

Two Hours is an exceptional novel. Witty, perceptive, and profoundly humane, this is the work of a writer at the height of her powers.

This volume collects all of Edward Said's never-before-published poems, offering insight into the personality of the author.

A lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of a consummate self-portraitist and a riveting depiction of a paradoxical personality.

Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century is a revisionary account of the forms of thought and belief that have been rejected or suppressed by orthodox Christianity over the course of the centuries. Formidably erudite without ever drifting into dry scholasticism, Resistance to Christianity ranges from the origins of the Bible to the fraught doctrinal controversies of the fourth century to the Levellers and Jansenists of the early modern period, thereby revealing the too-little-known history that lies behind the modern world¿s theological horizons.Resistance to Christianity is far more, however, than a study of religious movements and ideas; indeed, Vaneigem is bracingly unapologetic in his ambition ¿to examine the resistance that the inclination to natural liberty has, for nearly twenty centuries, opposed to . . . Christian oppression.¿ The story of how men and women have again and again resisted the authoritarian implications of religious orthodoxy is, above all, a crucial strand of the history of human freedom.Bill Brown¿s translation makes available in English a major work by one of the preeminent thinkers of our time. A remarkable feat of historical scholarship that deserves to be widely read, Resistance to Christianity represents radical thought at its most exciting, incisive, and compelling.