comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine". – Nietzsche`s Letter to Carl Fuchs (14 December 1887). Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. Nietzsche's writing spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. CONTENTS: Homer and the Classical Philology; On the Future of Our Educational Institutions; The Greek State and Other Fragments; The Relation Between a Schopenhauerian Philosophy and a German Culture; Homer's Contest; The Birth of Tragedy; On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense; Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks; Thoughts Out of Season; Human, All Too Human; The Dawn of Day; The Joyful Wisdom; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; The Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist; Nietzsche Contra Wagner; The Will to Power; We Philologists; The Poems of Friedrich Nietzsche; The Autobiography; Ecce Homo.