On the Suffering of the World
by Arthur Schopenhauer | 
Man Alone With Himself
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau | 
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley | 
Walking
by Henry David Thoreau | 
The Soul of Man under Socialism
by Oscar Wilde | 
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
Critique of Judgement
by Immanuel Kant | 
Existentialists and Mystics
by Iris Murdoch | 
On the Genealogy of Morals
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
The Form of Things
by A. C. Grayling | 
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
by Henry David Thoreau | 
The Zurau Aphorisms
by Franz Kafka | 
The Examined Life
by Robert Nozick | 
Twilight of the Idols
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
The Heart of Things
by A. C. Grayling | 
Why I Am So Wise
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
An Introduction to Philosophy
by George Stuart Fullerton | 
Plutarch's Morals
by Plutarch | 
A Lover's Discourse
by Roland Barthes |
Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, the importance of sleep and why we sometimes laugh and cry at the same things.