Prophets of Dissent: Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzche, and Tolstoy

THE collocation of authors so widely at variance in their moral and artistic aims as are those assembled in this little book may be defended by the safe and simple argument that all of these authors have exerted, each in his own way, an influence of singular range and potency. By fairy general consent they are the foremost literary expositors of important modem tendencies. It is, therefore, of no consequence whether or not their ways of thinking fit into our particular frame of mind; what r...