Chapters (131)
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION BY H. L. MENCKEN
- INTRODUCTION
- PROLOGUE
- EGOTISM
- I
- HUMBLE AND A WANDERER
- DOGMATOPHAGY
- NEVERTHELESS, WE CALL OURSELVES MATERIALISTS
- IN DEFENSE OF RELIGION
- ARCH-EUROPEAN
- DIONYSIAN OR APOLLONIAN?
- EPICURI DE GREGE PORCUM
- EVIL AND ROUSSEAU'S CHINAMAN
- THE ROOT OF DISINTERESTED EVIL
- MUSIC AS A SEDATIVE
- CONCERNING WAGNER
- UNIVERSAL MUSICIANS
- THE FOLK SONG
- ON THE OPTIMISM OF EUNUCHS
- II
- YOUTHFUL WRITINGS
- THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE JOURNEY
- MELLOWNESS AND THE CRITICAL SENSE
- SENSIBILITY
- ON DEVOURING ONE'S OWN GOD
- ANARCHISM
- NEW PATHS
- LONGING FOR CHANGE
- BAROJA, YOU WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING
- THE PATRIOTISM OF DESIRE
- MY HOME LANDS
- CRUELTY AND STUPIDITY
- THE ANTERIOR IMAGE
- THE TRAGI-COMEDY OF SEX
- THE VEILS OF THE SEXUAL LIFE
- A LITTLE TALK
- UPON THE SUPPOSED MORALITY OF MARRIAGE
- THE SOVEREIGN CROWD
- THE REMEDY
- III
- RHETORIC AND ANTI-RHETORIC
- THE RHYTHM OF STYLE
- RHETORIC OF THE MINOR KEY
- THE VALUE OF MY IDEAS
- GENIUS AND ADMIRATION
- MY LITERARY AND ARTISTIC INCLINATIONS
- MY LIBRARY
- ON BEING A GENTLEMAN
- GIVING OFFENCE
- THIRST FOR GLORY
- ELECTIVE ANTIPATHIES
- TO A MEMBER OF SEVERAL ACADEMIES
- IV
- CERVANTES, SHAKESPEARE, MOLIÈRE
- THE ENCYCLOPEDISTS
- THE ROMANTICISTS
- THE NATURALISTS
- THE SPANISH REALISTS
- THE RUSSIANS
- THE CRITICS
- V
- VI
- THE ROMAN HISTORIANS
- MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORIANS
- VII
- OUR HISTORY
- VIII
- MY PARENTS
- MONSIGNOR, THE CAT
- TWO LUNATICS
- THE HAWK
- IN MADRID
- IN PAMPLONA
- DON TIRSO LAREQUI
- A VISIONARY ROWDY
- SARASATE
- ROBINSON CRUSOE AND THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
- IX
- PROFESSORS
- ANTI-MILITARISM
- TO VALENCIA
- X
- DOLORES, LA SACRISTANA
- XI
- MY FATHER'S DISILLUSIONMENT
- INDUSTRY AND DEMOCRACY
- THE VEXATIONS OF A SMALL TRADESMAN
- XII
- BOHEMIA
- OUR OWN GENERATION
- AZORÍN
- PAUL SCHMITZ
- ORTEGA Y GASSET
- A PSEUDO-PATRON
- XIII
- ESTÉVANEZ
- MY VERSATILITY ACCORDING TO BONAFOUX
- XIV
- THE ENMITY OF DICENTA
- THE POSTHUMOUS ENMITY OF SAWA
- SEMI-HATRED ON THE PART OF SILVERIO LANZA
- XV
- AMERICANS
- XVI
- VOTES AND APPLAUSE
- POLITICIANS
- REVOLUTIONISTS
- LERROUX
- AN OFFER
- SOCIALISTS
- LOVE OF THE WORKINGMAN
- THE CONVENTIONALIST BARRIOVERO
- ANARCHISTS
- THE MORALITY OF THE ALTERNATING PARTY SYSTEM
- ON OBEYING THE LAW
- THE STERNNESS OF THE LAW
- XVII
- THE OLD-TIME SOLDIER
- DOWN GOES PRESTIGE
- SCIENCE AND THE PICTURESQUE
- WHAT WE NEED TODAY
- OUR ARMIES
- EPILOGUE
- PALINODE AND FRESH OUTBURST OF IRE
- APPENDICES
- SPANISH POLITICIANS
- SPANISH POLITICIANS
- ON BAROJA'S ANARCHISTS
- NOTE
- THE WORKS OF PÍO BAROJA
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