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The Illustrated Meditations
100.00 ₾Marcus Aurelius’s personal Stoic reflections in a beautifully illustrated edition — private notes to himself on equanimity, anger, desire, and what matters. James S. Romm’s commentary contextualises one of philosophy’s most beloved and practically useful texts in its second-century Roman world.
Symposium and Phaedrus
60.00 ₾Plato’s two dialogues on love, beauty, and the soul — the Symposium’s ladder of love culminating in Diotima’s vision, and Phaedrus’s meditation on beauty and the immortal soul. The richest account of Platonic love in philosophy, in an Everyman’s Library translation.
The Social Contract
30.00 ₾Rousseau’s 1762 political masterwork — ‘man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.’ The concept of the general will and the intellectual foundation of democratic theory: a text that made revolutions and whose influence on political thought has never diminished. Essential in a Wordsworth Classics edition.
Utopia
30.00 ₾Thomas More’s 1516 foundational text of political philosophy — the ideal island society that gave us the word ‘utopia’ and launched a tradition of political imagination extending to Marx, Morris, and beyond. Simultaneously serious argument, humanist satire, and ambiguous meditation: a Wordsworth Classics essential.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money The Economic Consequences of the Peace
30.00 ₾Keynes’s 1936 masterwork — the book that transformed how governments respond to economic crises, arguing that markets don’t self-correct and government spending is necessary. One of the twentieth century’s most consequential intellectual works in an accessible Wordsworth Classics edition.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
30.00 ₾Locke’s 1689 foundational text of British empiricism — the blank slate, knowledge from experience, and the philosophical groundwork for the Enlightenment. A landmark of intellectual history available in an accessible Wordsworth Classics edition: essential for students of philosophy and ideas.
Extracts from the Second Sex
30.00 ₾Key passages from Simone de Beauvoir’s foundational 1949 feminist masterpiece — ‘One is not born, but becomes, a woman.’ This Vintage selection makes de Beauvoir’s essential analysis of femininity’s social construction accessible without sacrificing the rigour that makes it indispensable.
Book of Questions Selections
100.00 ₾Selections from Pablo Neruda’s extraordinary late work — childlike, profound questions that probe existence, time, love, and the world. Simple inquiry as deep philosophical poetry: a perfect introduction to a Nobel laureate whose range extends far beyond his famous love poems.
Patti Smith: Collected Lyrics
100.00 ₾Patti Smith: Collected Lyrics (Bloomsbury) — the complete lyrics from four decades of songwriting, from ‘Gloria’ and ‘Horses’ through ‘Because the Night’ and ‘Easter’ to the work of her later decades. One of the most sustained and most seriously literary bodies of songwriting in popular music history — moving between prophetic declaration and intimate confession, between political rage and private elegy, with a freedom that almost no other songwriter has achieved. Published by Bloomsbury.
Selected Poems
55.00 ₾Selected Poems by Sylvia Plath (Faber) — the essential Plath collection, presenting the poems she was preparing for publication at the time of her death alongside essential earlier work. ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Daddy’, ‘Ariel’, ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’, ‘Morning Song’ — poems of extraordinary intensity and technical command that are as much performances as revelations, as much art as autobiography. The definitive Plath selection. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Seducer’s Diary
30.00 ₾The Seducer’s Diary by Søren Kierkegaard (Penguin) — embedded in Either/Or and now available alone, the disturbing and philosophically indispensable account of Johannes’s calculated seduction of Cordelia: simultaneously a portrait of a predatory mind and an inquiry into the difference between aesthetic and ethical modes of existence. Kierkegaard understood that the most damning portrait of a consciousness is one that presents itself as its own advocate. Published by Penguin.
Alchemised
100.00 ₾Alchemised by Sen Lin Yu (Penguin) — poems and prose pieces on transformation: what it means to change, to let go, to become something other than what you were while remaining yourself. Drawing on personal experience, Buddhist teaching, classical Chinese poetry, and contemporary neuroscience, the writing reads as poetry but functions as philosophy — accessible without being shallow, consoling without being sentimental. For readers of Mary Oliver and Maggie Nelson. Published by Penguin.
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
30.00 ₾God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin) — Nietzsche’s most explosive passages, including the death of God, the eternal recurrence, and the will to power, gathered in a Penguin Little Black Classic. The most concentrated introduction available to his central ideas — essential for anyone who wants to understand what Nietzsche was actually saying. Published by Penguin.
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
16.00 ₾My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson (Penguin) — an essential selection of poems by one of the greatest poets in the English language, gathered in a beautiful Penguin Little Black Classic. ‘I heard a Fly buzz — when I died’, ‘Because I could not stop for Death’, and other essential poems: Dickinson’s compression and originality at their most striking.
The Republic
50.00 ₾The Republic by Plato (Penguin Classics) — one of the most important texts in Western civilisation, this edition’s direct prose makes Plato’s foundational questions about justice, governance, education, and the soul feel immediately urgent and alive. The Allegory of the Cave, the concept of philosopher-kings, and the critique of democracy — all as relevant today as they were in ancient Athens.
How to Use Your Enemies
15.00 ₾How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracián (Penguin) — the seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit’s essential guide to strategy, cunning, and navigating a world where not everyone wishes you well. At under a hundred pages, this Penguin Little Black Classic delivers more concentrated wisdom about power and human nature than most books many times its length.
The Apology of Socrates
16.00 ₾The Apology of Socrates by Plato (Penguin Classics) — Socrates’ defence at his trial in Athens, 399 BC. Facing death with irony and complete moral courage, he refuses to abandon his philosophical mission. At under sixty pages, one of the most rewarding texts in Western philosophy. Trans. Hugh Tredennick.
Essays and Aphorisms
60.00 ₾Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer (Penguin Classics) — his most accessible writing: witty, direct reflections on suffering, happiness, women, books, and death. Schopenhauer is among the most quotable of all philosophers. This Penguin Classics selection, translated by R.J. Hollingdale, is the ideal introduction to a thinker who influenced Nietzsche, Freud, and Wagner.
The Joyous Science
50.00 ₾The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin Classics) — the work in which he first announced the death of God and introduced the eternal recurrence. Written 1882–87, this collection of aphorisms and reflections is among his most stylistically adventurous: a restless intelligence grappling with the collapse of Western certainty. Trans. R.J. Hollingdale.
The Myth of Sisyphus
46.00 ₾The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics) — the foundational text of absurdist philosophy. Confronting the absurdity of existence — our need for meaning in a meaningless universe — Camus arrives at his celebrated answer: one must imagine Sisyphus happy. Brief, brilliant, and enduringly useful.
Selected Poems
46.00 ₾Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Modern Classics) — the finest work from his entire poetic career in a bilingual edition. From early ultraist verse to the late sonnets of near-blindness, Borges’s poetry displays precision, musical exactness, and philosophical depth. With translations by W.S. Merwin, Mark Strand, and Richard Wilbur.
The Symposium
35.00 ₾The Symposium by Plato (Penguin Classics) — one of the most beautiful discussions of love in Western literature. A series of speeches at an Athenian dinner party, culminating in Socrates’ account of Diotima’s teaching that erotic desire is the soul’s longing for immortality and truth. Translated by Christopher Gill.
On the Suffering of the World
30.00 ₾On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer (Penguin) — the core of his pessimistic philosophy in brilliantly readable essays. On suffering, boredom, the consolations of art, and the path to peace through renunciation — witty, sharp, and consistently illuminating. Translated by R.J. Hollingdale.
Meditations
25.00 ₾Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Penguin Classics) — the private journal of the Emperor of Rome. Stoic reflections on what is in our power, the impermanence of things, and the obligation to act justly. Two thousand years old and still one of the most useful works of philosophy ever written. Translated by Maxwell Staniforth.
Status Anxiety
40.00 ₾Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton (Penguin) — a brilliant diagnosis of our chronic anxiety about social position. Having shown how meritocracy creates this condition, de Botton offers five traditional remedies: philosophy, art, politics, Christianity, and Bohemia. Incisive, accessible, and genuinely useful.
The Republic
60.00 ₾The Republic by Plato (Penguin Classics) — one of the most important texts in Western thought. Home to the Allegory of the Cave, the concept of philosopher-kings, and the foundational critique of democracy. Two and a half millennia old and still indispensable. Desmond Lee’s standard translation.
Timaeus and Critias
46.00 ₾Timaeus and Critias by Plato (Penguin Classics) — his cosmological creation myth and the only ancient source for the legend of Atlantis. Timaeus shaped Christian theology and medieval cosmology; Critias describes the island civilisation destroyed for abandoning virtue. Translated by Desmond Lee.
The Laws
55.00 ₾The Laws by Plato (Penguin Classics) — his last and most pragmatic work on legislation and constitutional design. More practical than the Republic, it addresses education, religion, and the full social organisation required for a good state. The fullest expression of Plato’s mature political thought. Translated by Trevor Saunders.
Human, All Too Human
46.00 ₾Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin Classics) — the turning point in his philosophy, from Romantic idealism to rigorous psychological analysis. Dedicated to Voltaire, this collection of aphorisms examines morality, religion, and art with unsentimental clarity. Translated by Marion Faber.
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
50.00 ₾Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard (Penguin Classics) — the founding document of existentialism. Two complete worldviews — aesthetic and ethical — constructed through pseudonymous authors, with the reader left to choose. The ‘Diary of a Seducer’ is among its most celebrated passages. Translated by Alastair Hannay.
The Politics
50.00 ₾The Politics by Aristotle (Penguin Classics) — one of the foundational texts of Western political thought. Aristotle’s systematic analysis of the state, government, and political flourishing, drawing on the study of 158 Greek city-states, has shaped political theory from Aquinas and Machiavelli to the present. Translated by T.A. Sinclair.
The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
46.00 ₾The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche (Vintage) — the Apollonian-Dionysian distinction explained and the cultural case against Wagner made. Two essential works in the philosophy of art, in Walter Kaufmann’s standard translation.
Don Juan
50.00 ₾Don Juan by Lord Byron (Penguin Classics) — widely regarded as his masterpiece and one of the great poems in English. A vast, exuberant comic epic blending adventure, romance, and savage satire, left unfinished at his death in 1824. Irresistible and inexhaustible.
Selected Poems
50.00 ₾Selected Poems by Lord Byron (Penguin Classics) — essential Byron, from the early poems that made him famous to the mature brilliance of Don Juan. Includes ‘Childe Harold’, the Hebrew Melodies, and key passages from his comic masterpiece. The ideal introduction to one of Romanticism’s most dazzling voices.
Selected Poems
50.00 ₾Selected Poems by John Keats (Penguin Classics) — the great odes, narrative poems, and celebrated lyrics in a compact annotated edition. The ideal introduction to one of the supreme poets in the English tradition. Edited by John Barnard, with full scholarly notes.
The Complete Poems
60.00 ₾The Complete Poems by Thomas Wyatt (Penguin Classics) — the entire surviving work of the founder of the English lyric tradition, who introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into English at Henry VIII’s court. Remarkable for sophistication and emotional directness. The standard scholarly edition, edited by R.A. Rebholz.
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