Shelfology Book Pairing

A Novel -- 20th Anniversary Edition

by David Foster Wallace

This deluxe paperback edition--featuring flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissell--celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Infinite Jest. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One of the most well-known works of philosophy is The Will to Power, which was assembled from the notebooks. The first critical edition in any language is presented here. The Will to Power has repeatedly been disparaged after World War II, despite being incorrectly thought to be Nietzsche's most systematic work up until the Nazi era. It actually offers a remarkable selection from Nietzsche's notebooks, organised by topic to make it easy for readers to find what the philosopher had to say on a variety of topics.