The World as Will and Idea

Schopenhauer's masterwork, read in full in the classic Haldane and Kemp translation: the world as we know it is idea, a picture in the head — and behind it the Will, blind and restless, striving through all nature until art, compassion and finally the denial of the will bring release. For anyone ready to finally hear the book that pessimism never managed to make small. Long after the last chapter, one feeling remains: the veil of the world is translucent — and you have looked through it.