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“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part,
the rest are lost in the multitude.”-Voltaire

     In this insightful new work, The Books in my Life, author Colin Wilson revisits the books that shaped his life. Beginning with the pulp novels, comic books and boys magazines he read as a young man, through Mark Twain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and on to Nietzsche, Joyce, Sartre and Shaw, Wilson discusses the ideas and challenges that these books presented  him. Tracing his development as a writer and his growth into adulthood, Wilson pinpoints the books that he read along the way and discusses the essence of their magic.    
    

     Wilson, author of more than eighty books including the best-selling classic The Outsider, has spent the better part of his life exploring life’s larger questions such as the nature of consciousness and the evolution of man. His New Existentialism (1983) refuted the nihilism of Heidegger, Sartre and Camus through discussion of how our growing and evolving consciousness can only enhance humankind’s place in the universe rather than diminish it.  As Wilson shares a lifetime of reading  with us, we become more aware of how this experience shaped his thoughts and beliefs, leading him into realms of philosophical and metaphysical thought that few have traveled.
   

     The Books in My Life, read either as a reference tool or as an extended philosophical work, will delight and intrigue readers with its reflective and intimate style. It is both gracious and profound as it expands the reader’s awareness of the broader issues of human consciousness and its evolution.

6 X 9, Trade paper, 311 pages, ISBN 1-57174-111-9, $15.95