R. J. Hollingdale is the author of Penguin Classics Introduction to Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Penguin Classics) (2005), Nietzsche (2001), Western Philosophy (1979), Thomas Mann: a Critical Study (1971), The Will to Power [by] Friedrich Nietzsche. A New Translation by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale. Edited, with Commentary, by Walter Kaufmann, with Facsims. of the Original Manuscript (1967) and , Nietzche: the Man and His Philosophy (1966).