On the Sufferings of the World — Schopenhauer's first and most celebrated essay on pessimism: that suffering is the positive element of existence, pleasure merely its absence, and life a disappointment.
Studies in Pessimism — T. Bailey Saunders's English selection from Schopenhauer's Parerga und Paralipomena, published as Studies in Pessimism — nine essays on the suffering of the world, the vanity of existence, suicide, immortality, human psychology, education, women, and noise, closing with a set of parables, complete with the translator's note and all footnotes.
The Vanity of Existence — Schopenhauer's metaphysical essay on the vanity of existence: that time devours all things, that being is perpetually becoming was, and that human life is most honestly described as a mistake.
The World as Will and Idea — Volume 1 — Volume one of the three-volume Haldane and Kemp translation of Schopenhauer's principal work, carrying the translators' preface, the author's prefaces to the first and second editions, and the complete text of the four Books of 1818 — the world as idea, the world as will, the Platonic Idea and the object of art, and the assertion and denial of the will to live.
The World as Will and Idea — Volume 2 — Volume two of the three-volume Haldane and Kemp translation of Schopenhauer's principal work, carrying the Appendix 'Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy' and the first twenty of the fifty supplementary chapters of 1844 — the seventeen supplements to the First Book on idealism, perception, logic, the ludicrous and man's need of metaphysics, and the opening supplements to the Second Book on the thing in itself and the primacy of the will.
The World as Will and Idea — Volume 3 — Volume three of the three-volume Haldane and Kemp translation of Schopenhauer's principal work, carrying the remaining thirty supplementary chapters of 1844 — on unconscious nature, matter, teleology and instinct, on genius, madness, architecture, poetry and the metaphysics of music, and on death, heredity, sexual love, the suffering of life and the denial of the will — with the translators' abstract of the essay on the fourfold root, the index to all three volumes, and Schopenhauer's preface to the third edition.