Rock Crystals a novella by Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, about two missing children on Christmas Eve. Thomas Mann said Stifter is "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature"
Thomas De Quincey was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.
Joan Didion is an American writer who embodies a compelling combination of fragility and strength both in her writing and appearance.
The Tripitaka Koreana is a Korean collection of Buddhist scriptures, carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks in the 13th century. Each wood block measures 24 centimeters in height and 70 centimeters in length.
Italo Svevo was an italian writer.
Ludwig Wittgenstein is a philosopher many read and few understand.
Paul Valery was a writer who thought a lot about thinking about thinking.
Friedrich Schiller was a German philosopher who was emotionally complex.
The Faith of Graffiti is a book by the hard-hitting Norman Mailer and Jon Naar.
Fran Lebowitz is a woman who can't stop talking and God bless her for that.