Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The outsider The outsider Colin Wilson The Outsider is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1956. Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of its Tether), Franz Kafka, Alb… OL102108W
Existentialists and Mystics Existentialists and Mystics Iris Murdoch Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her mos… OL1326355W
Living death in medieval French and English literature Living death in medieval French and English literature Jane Gilbert "Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deat… OL16010964W
Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith Harrison, Russell In this, the first full-length critical study of Patricia Highsmith's literary achievements, Russell Harrison offers a thoughtful consideration of the most successful and representative of the writer… OL2671889W
French existentialist fiction French existentialist fiction Terry Keefe Broadly dividing the fiction of Sartre, Camus and Beauvoir into three periods - pre-World War II, wartime, and post-war - the book shows how the moral perspectives of the authors, as illustrated in t… OL2720535W
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre Walter Arnold Kaufmann Existentialism is perhaps the most misunderstood of modern philosophic positions-- misunderstood by reason of its broad popularity and general unfamiliarity with its origins, representatives, and pri… OL3503509W