Why I am So Clever

Summary:
Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries, including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles, and elephants.

From the author:
Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844. When he was only twenty-four, he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel University. Works published in the 1880s include The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist. In January 1889, Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin and was subsequently institutionalized, spending the rest of his life in a condition of mental and physical paralysis. Works published after his death in 1900 include Will to Power, based on his notebooks, and Ecce Homo, his autobiography.