The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems is a captivating collection of T.S. Eliot's most influential works. This volume brings together three of Eliot's powerful collections into one.

It includes such classic poems as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Portrait of a Lady, Preludes, Gerontion, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, and The Waste Land.

T.S. Eliot masterfully explores themes of modernism, existentialism, and the human condition through his eloquent verses.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a leading German metaphysician of the 19th century, whose influence extended far beyond the hermetic world of philosophy. His adherents ranged from Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche to Leo Tolstoy and Thomas Mann. Schopenhauer rejected the idealism of his contemporaries and embraced a practical variety of materialism. He discarded traditional philosophic jargon for a brisk, compelling style, using direct terms to express the metaphysics of the will.

In The Wisdom of Life, an essay from his final work, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), Schopenhauer advocates for individual strength of will and independent, reasoned deliberation over acting on irrational impulses. He examines how life can be arranged to derive the highest degree of pleasure and success, offering guidelines for achieving a full and rich manner of living. Schopenhauer advises that even a life well-lived must always aspire to grander heights. This work abounds in subjects of enduring relevance and is highly readable in an excellent translation.