Diary of a Man in Despair (Reck Friedrich)(Paperback)

Diary of a Man in Despair (Reck Friedrich)(Paperback)

Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he

Nietzsche on Love (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Friedrich Nietzsche presented many of his greatest insights in pithy, well-turned short phrases that do not follow any philosophical dogma. Instead, his chastening but ultimately life-affirming philosophy puts forth true love and friendship as our best hope in dark times. Here are Nietzsche's key

Man Alone with Himself (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the

Despair (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's

Atlas of an Anxious Man (Ransmayr Christoph)(Paperback)

In The Atlas of an Anxious Man, Christoph Ransmayr offers a mesmerizing travel diary--a sprawling tale of earthly wonders seen by a wandering eye. This is an exquisite, lyrically told travel story. Translated by Simon Pare, this unique account follows Ransmayr across the globe: from the shadow of

On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Schiller Friedrich)(Paperback)

Essential reading. New Society.A classic of eighteenth-century thought, Friedrich Schiller s treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy s most profound works. In addition to its importance to the history of ideas, this 1795 essay remains relevant to our own time.Beginning

The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & a Last Diary (Barbellion W. N. P.)(Paperback)

Published shortly before the author's death in 1919, The Journal of a Disappointed Man presents a remarkable memoir that addresses struggles with poverty, inadequate education, and the creeping paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Yet author W. N. P. Barbellion manages to write with uplifting eloquence

On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Schiller Friedrich)(Paperback)

German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller's famous text on art, politics, and society'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time its pupil, even worse its minion.' One of the most profound works of German philosophy, Friedrich Schiller's

Key (Tanizaki Junichiro)(Paperback / softback)

This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko

Diary of an Irish Mother(Paperback / softback)

Set in London in 1983, 'Diary of an Irish Mother' offers a snapshot into the hectic life of Vera Byrne. Her daily struggle to hold everything together, bringing up three difficult teenagers, going to work, a DIY nightmare,a 'lazy' husband, car trouble ... and the list goes on. Never a dull

WWII Diary of a Fallen Japanese Soldier (Lake S. R.)(Paperback)

The translation of a WWII diary of a Japanese soldier in 1943 stationed on the front lines in the Solomon

Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

Underground Man (Jackson Mick)(Paperback / softback)

One of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, The Underground Man is the fictionalised diary of a deeply eccentric English

Diary of a Mad Old Man (Tanizaki Junichiro)(Paperback / softback)

While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady

Le Bal (Nemirovsky Irene)(Paperback / softback)

In a fury of adolescent rage and despair, Antoinette exacts a swift and horrible revenge... Snow in Autumn pays homage to Nemirovsky's beloved Chekhov and chronicles the life of a devoted servant following her masters as they flee Revolutionary Moscow and emigrate to a life of hardship in

Diary of a Foreigner in Paris (Malaparte Curzio)(Paperback)

Experience postwar Europe through the diary of a fascinating and witty twentieth-century writer and artist. Recording his travels in France and Switzerland, Curzio Malaparte encounters famous figures such as Cocteau and Camus and captures the fraught, restless spirit of Paris after the trauma of

Diary of a Taekwondo Master (Flint Shamini)(Paperback)

In illustrated diary format, the hilarioustale of a boy who is a taekwondo master not Marcus is a mathwhiz who is not good at sports. But his dad, a self-help author, is convinced otherwise. He believes that Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to with hilarious results. Flint's gentle,

Winter of Despair (Harrison Cora)(Paperback)

Wilkie Collins must prove his brother is innocent of murder in the second of the compelling new Gaslight mystery series. November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the

Diary of a Rugby Champ (Flint Shamini)(Paperback)

In illustrated diary format, the hilarious tale of a boy who is a rugby master--not Marcus is a math whiz who is not good at sports. But his dad, a self-help author, is convinced otherwise. He believes that Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to--with hilarious results. Flint's gentle,

The Seducer's Diary (Kierkegaard Sren)(Paperback)

'In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast,' observes John Updike in his foreword to Soren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (Book 4) (Kinney Jeff)(Paperback / softback)

THE ONE WITH THE WORST SUMMER EVER The fourth laugh-out-loud, fully-illustrated Diary of a Wimpy Kid book from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney! A global phenomenon with 250 million copies of the series sold worldwide! Greg Heffley's family are going to have to count their pennies

Diary Of An Ordinary Woman (Forster Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money

Man of Parts (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS. A MAN OF PASSION. A MAN OF THE FUTURE. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and

On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

For the first time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche's accessible exploration of key ideas in his landmark Beyond Good and Evil--in a lucid new translation Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of On the Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in fact the book