The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche—Thus Spake Zarathustra is in Penguin, and you may find other editions. Beyond Good and Evil: Gateway, Penguin, Random. The Birth of Tragedy (with The Genealogy of Morais): Anchor. Penguin has a Portable Nietzsche and also a Nietzsche Reader.

Further reading: Walter Kaufmann's Nietzsche: Philosopher Psychologist, Antichrist is a learned work defending Nietzsche against the kind of charges made by such critics as Bertrand Russell. See also: Ronald Hayman, Nietzsche: A Criticai Life; Richard Schacht, Nietzsche; Karl Jaspers, Nietzsche; Janko Lavrin, Nietzsche: A Biographical Introduction; Nietzsche Reader; Alexander Nehamas, Nietzsche: Life as Literature; Robert C. Holub, Friedrich Nietzsche; Heinz F. Peters, Zarathustra s Sister: The Case of Elizabeth and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Sigmund Freud—The Freud bibliography, for he was a prolific writer, is a bit intimidating. Some important works are available only hardbound; Norton publishes the multivolume Standard Edition of the complete works. Here are some recommended paperbacks: General Selection from the Works of Sigmund Freud (Anchor); Civilization and Its Discontents (Norton); General Psychological Theory (Collier); Interpretation of Dreams (Avon); New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Norton); Psychopathology ofEveryday Life (Norton, Mentor); Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Dutton).

Further reading: The standard biography, a classic, is Ernest Jones's Life and Works of Sigmund Freud (3 vols.). Basic Books also has this in an abridged edition edited by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus. In An Autobiographical Study Freud himself offers a brief account. See also: Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time; Philip Rieff, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist; Ralph Steadman, Sigmund Freud; Lionel Trilling, Freud and the Crisis of Our Time; R.W. Clark, Freud: The Man and the Cause. A tren- chant critique of the Freudian position is Jeffrey Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst.

George Bernard Shaw—Bernard Shaw's Plays (Norton), Four Plays by Shaw (Dell), and Plays Unpleasant (Penguin) will collec- tively provide you with eleven of the best plays. In separate vol­umes Penguin offers Androcles, The Apple Cart, Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Candida, The DeviVs Disciple,

Heartbreak House, Major Barbara, Man and Superman, The Millionairess, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, and Selected One-Act Plays. Oxford offers Back to Methusaleh in hardcover, as Hill and Wang does for The Quintessence of Ibsenism. There are many other eas- ily procurable editions.

Further reading: For an interesting collection of essays by vari- ous hands try Louis Kronenberger, ed., G.B. Shaw: A Criticai Survey. Other perspectives: Eric Bentley's Bernard Shaw; G.K. Chesterton's George Bernard Shaw; and Hesketh Pearson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality. See also: Michael Holroyd, The Genius of Shaw; J.F. Matthews, George Bernard Shaw.

Joseph Conrad—Nostromo: Signet, Penguin, Everyman, and Modern Library offer good editions. Many critics rate Lord Jim above Nostromo. It's available in Penguin, Airmont, Riverside, and other editions. Try also The Secret Agent (Anchor); Heart of Darkness (with The Secret Sharer) (Signet); Nigger of the Narcissus, Typhoon, and Other Stories (Penguin).