A study of the message for our time to be found in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Kafka, this small book has a depth of insight and a comprehensiveness of treatment beyond what its modesty of size and tone indicates. William Hubben has been able to accomplish this admirable feat by a skillful selection and blending of biography and lucid exposition. The result can be recommended as one of the most straightforward and easily understandable introductions to the whole modern experience of existentialism.