A Case of Hysteria: (Dora)
Sigmund Freud
A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him. The 18-year-old ‘Dora’ was ...
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The Castle
Franz Kafka, Anthea Bell (ed.), and Ritchie Robertson (ed.)
A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats - this is the setting for Kafka’s story about a ...
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The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil
Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent’s psychological ...
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ECCE Homo: How To Become What You Are
Friedrich Nietzsche and Duncan Large (ed.)
Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative ...
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Émile Durkheim, Carol Cosman (ed.), and Mark S. Cladis (ed.)
‘If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.’
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), ...
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A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
Franz Kafka, Joyce Crick (ed.), and Ritchie Robertson (ed.)
Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their ...
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud, Joyce Crick, and Ritchie Robertson
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud’s original argument, ...
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The Man who Disappeared (America)
Franz Kafka and Ritchie Robertson (ed.)
Entering New York harbour, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, ‘her arm with the sword stretched upward’. This forbidding introduction sets the tone for Kafka’s ...
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka, Joyce Crick (ed.), and Ritchie Robertson (ed.)
With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary ...
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke and Robert Vilain (ed.)
The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to record his life in a series of loosely ...
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux and David Coward (ed.)
A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine Daaé. Under his guidance her singing rises to ...
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Swann in Love
Marcel Proust, Brian Nelson, and Adam Watt (ed.)
‘Swann’s love … could not have been torn out of him without destroying him almost entirely’
Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of ...
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The Swann Way
The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to ...
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Michael Beaney (ed.)
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in English translation in 1922, is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the twentieth ...
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