
Great Ideas is a book series published by Penguin Books. It consists of multiple series of twenty books, each about a hundred pages long. Every book contains a famous essay, often by an even more famous writer. Some of these are mildly shortened. As of October 2006 two series have been published. Recent reprints show that Penguin is moving to remove the distinction between the two series, suggesting either that future titles will be published ad hoc or that no more new titles are planned. Recently the third part in the series has been released. For the first time in the series it features additional works from the previous series' most popular writers. It features twenty writers, six writers have also been featured in the previous series and returned with a different 'great idea' namely: Albert Camus with The Fastidious Assassins, Sigmund Freud with The Future of an Illusion, Søren Kierkegaard with The Sickness Unto Death, Friedrich Nietzsche with Man Alone with Himself, George Orwell with Books versus Cigarettes and John Ruskin with The Lamp of Memory.
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