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The Books in My
Life
by Colin Wilson
Hampton Roads, 1998
ISBN: 1571741119
Literature, 320 pages
Trade Paperback, $15.95
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
A best-selling author, who shares his home with more 20,000
books, pinpoints the books that have made a difference in his
life and challenged him to learn.
Wilson's lifework is a search for higher states of awareness.
His insight and never-ending inquiry into consciousness,
literature and philosophy have illuminated many minds. In The
Books In My Life, he revisits the books that challenged him
to grow and helped to shape his life and perspectives, beginning
with the pulp novels he read avidly in his youth, through Mark
Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle, and on to Nietzsche, Joyce, Sartre
and Shaw. Looking over Wilson's shoulder, we watch as he is drawn
to works that affirm man's ability to consciously alter one's
life as well as the world. Tracing his growth into adulthood and
his development as a writer, Wilson pinpoints the books that he
read at important steps along the way and divulges the essence of
their magic.
The Books In My Life is an amazingly insightful look at
how a life of reading shapes our thoughts and beliefs, our hearts
and our souls. We are fortunate that Colin Wilson has welcomed us
into his private world in this masterpiece of literary reflection
and remembrance.
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COLIN WILSON grew up in
a working-class family and had little opportunity for formal
education. But even as a child, he turned to the printed word for
answers to life's innumerable questions. Today his personal
library includes more than 20,000 volumes, including more than 80
titles of his own -- among them The Outsider, which made
his reputation at age 24, The Occult, and From Atlantis
to The Sphinx -- each of which expanded his reputation into
new areas.
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