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NGu~GI~ wa thIoNG’o
b. 1938, Kenyan
Petals of Blood
Introduction by Moses Isegawa
Through the story of a spectacular
triple murder and its investigation, one
of Africa’s foremost novelists paints a
devastating and controversial picture of a
modern third world nation. So explosive
was the theme of this novel that when
it was first published in 1977, its author
was taken into custody and held without
charges by the so-called liberal Kenyan
government.
432 pp. 978-0-14-303917-4 $15.00
“The definitive african book of the twentieth
century.” —m o s e s i s e g a w a
thoMas NIcKersoN
1805 – 1883, american
oweN chase
1796 – 1869, american
The Loss of the Ship Essex,
Sunk by a Whale
First Person Accounts
Edited by Thomas Philbrick with an
Introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick
In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex
was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm
whale. The incident was the Titanic story
of its day and provided the inspiration
for Melville’s Moby-Dick. This edition
combines the only extant first-person
narratives of the doomed voyage with
every relevant contemporary account.
256 pp. 978-0-14-043796-6 $15.00
FrIedrIch NIetzsche
1844 – 1900, german
The Portable Nietzsche
Edited and Translated with an Introduction
by Walter Kaufmann
This essential collection includes the
definitive translations of Twilight of the
Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra
Wagner, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, as
well as selections from his other books,
notes, and letters.
704 pp. 978-0-14-015062-9 $18.00
FrIedrIch NIetzsche
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death
of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five
by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor
of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879
when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous
breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is
dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the
disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values
derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were
appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he
had never intended.
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