The Future of an Illusion | Penguin Great IdeasThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. This investigation of

She went and got her camera

pulverising a library he had painstakingly built for community use

Bibliophobia is an alternately searing and darkly humorous story of breakdown and survival told through books

terrorism experts

Walid examines myths (“Could Gaza Have Been Singapore

believing that he has committed a murder

a physician

Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill

shaping the essence of Rome itself

The Frontiers of Criticism (1956) and On Poetry and Poets (1957)

“Dark times” is Brecht’s phrase

and yet by taking the minutiae of everyday life as their subject they remind us of the need to periodically turn inward and find meaning in the specific and deeply personal