Contents of Chapter
1. Good Book
2. From China
3. Writer’s Goal
4. Good Style
5. Simplicity
6. Clarity
7. Henry James
8. Five Techniques
9. Style
10. Everyday Poetry
11. Reader and Writer
12. Two Worlds
13. Purpose of Literature
14. Is Beauty Universal?
15. Educated Laymen
16. Goethe
17. Letters
18. Personal, Interesting
19. Reading2
20. Valuable Service
21. Maturing Taste
22. Keats
23. Chekhov
24. Kafka
25. Flaubert
26. Objective or Subjective?
27. Dostoyevsky
28. Tolstoy
29. Joyce
30. Proust
31. Proust and Ruskin
32. Proust and Detachment
33. Shakespeare and Detachment
34. Blood and Judgment
35. The Power of Thought
36. Shakespeare
37. Hamlet and Prospero
38. Growth from Disaster
39. The Hermetic Tradition
40. Character Pairs
41. Kundera
42. Whitman and Zen
43. Milosz and Zen
44. Mark Twain
45. The Desire to Die
Contents of Book
1. Philosophy
2. Ethics
3. Religion
4. Psychology
5. Genius
6. Sundry Thoughts
7. Literature
8. Education
9. Language
10. Modern Times
11. Politics
12. Physics
13. Life- and Death-Instincts
14. Decadence and Renaissance