Books
Philosophy for a clear mind and deliberate work, in editions we have the right to offer. Each one is a one-time purchase that stays in your library.
Louisa May Alcott
Modern · Intermediate
The book delves into the struggles of its main characters, Felix Canaris, a young man grappling with despair and hopelessness, and Jasper Helwyze, a mysterious benefactor.
$7.00
Herman Melville
Modern · Intermediate
A Wall Street lawyer hires a new copying clerk named Bartleby, who initially works diligently but soon begins refusing all tasks with the phrase "I would prefer not to.
$5.00
H. G. Wells
Modern · Intermediate
Set in post-World War I London, it follows Albert Edward Preemby, a dreamy laundry assistant who becomes convinced he is the reincarnation of an ancient Sumerian king, and his determined daughter Christina Alberta.
$7.00
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Modern · Intermediate
Raskolnikov, a destitute former student in St. Petersburg, carries out a murder he believes he can justify, and then has to live with it.
$7.00
Lewis Carroll
Modern · Advanced
Seventy-two mathematical problems that the author worked out in his head while lying awake at night, with their answers and solutions.
$5.00
Baruch Spinoza
Early modern · Advanced
Spinoza's major work, set out in geometrical order with definitions, axioms and propositions: on God, the mind, the emotions and human freedom.
$5.00
Baruch Spinoza
Early modern · Advanced
The second part of Spinoza's Ethics, on the nature and origin of the mind and its relation to the body.
$5.00
Baruch Spinoza
Early modern · Advanced
The third part of Spinoza's Ethics, which explains the emotions as natural things following from the striving of each being to persist.
$5.00
Baruch Spinoza
Early modern · Advanced
The fifth and last part of Spinoza's Ethics, on the power of the understanding over the emotions and on human freedom.
$5.00
Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern · Advanced
The opening divisions of Nietzsche's book of aphorisms "for free spirits": on first and last things, the history of the moral feelings, and the religious life.
$5.00
Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern · Advanced
The first part of Nietzsche's book of aphorisms "for free spirits", examining morality, religion, art and society without metaphysical assumptions.
$5.00
Immanuel Kant
Early modern · Advanced
Kant's third Critique, on the power of judgement: what we claim when we call something beautiful or sublime, and how we judge nature as purposive.
$5.00
Herman Melville
Modern · Intermediate
Sailor Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab, who commands the whaling ship Pequod in pursuit of Moby Dick, a giant white sperm whale that destroyed his leg.
$7.00
William Shakespeare
Early modern · Introductory
Set in Messina, the play follows two romantic pairings among soldiers and townspeople.
$5.00
Charles Dickens
Modern · Intermediate
A retired gentleman explores railway lines branching from Mugby Junction, encountering mysterious tales along the way.
$5.00
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Modern · Intermediate
A retired official in St. Petersburg sets down his bitter, contradictory thoughts on reason and free will, then recalls episodes from his youth.
$5.00
Jane Austen
Modern · Advanced
Eight years after being persuaded to break off her engagement to naval officer Frederick Wentworth, twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot encounters him again when his sister rents her family's estate.
$7.00
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Phaedo recounts the last day of Socrates' life, spent in prison discussing with his friends whether the soul survives death.
$5.00
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Walking outside the walls of Athens, Socrates and Phaedrus exchange speeches about love and then discuss what makes speaking and writing good.
$5.00
Herman Melville
Modern · Advanced
The book explores themes of love, identity, and the complexities of relationships through the life of Pierre Glendinning, a young man navigating his feelings for Lucy Tartan, amidst societal expectations and personal desires.
$7.00
L. M. Montgomery
Modern · Introductory
Twenty-nine-year-old Valancy Stirling has spent her entire life suffocated by her controlling family's expectations.
$7.00
Immanuel Kant
Early modern · Advanced
Kant's first Critique: an examination of what human reason can know independently of experience, and where its limits lie.
$5.00
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Modern · Introductory
A young tutor with a Russian general's family at a German spa town is caught up in their debts, his passion for Polina and the roulette table.
$5.00
Oscar Wilde
Modern · Intermediate
Two young gentlemen lead double lives, each pretending to be named Ernest to escape social duties and win the hearts of their beloveds.
$5.00
H. G. Wells
Modern · Introductory
Griffin, a scientist, discovers how to make himself invisible by altering his body's refractive index.
$7.00
Robert Louis Stevenson
Modern · Intermediate
Two Scottish brothers find their family torn apart when the Jacobite rising of 1745 forces them to choose opposite sides in the conflict.
$7.00
Charles Dickens
Modern · Introductory
Dickens's final and unfinished work centers on John Jasper, a cathedral choirmaster and opium addict who desires his pupil Rosa Bud—the fiancée of his nephew Edwin Drood.
$7.00
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Modern · Advanced
Set in Puritan Massachusetts during the 1640s, it follows Hester Prynne, who bears a child outside marriage and must wear a scarlet "A" as punishment for adultery.
$7.00
H. G. Wells
Modern · Intermediate
The story centers around Sir Richmond Hardy, a man immersed in the complexities of modern society and struggling with his mental state amidst the pressures of his work on the Fuel Commission.
$7.00
Robert Louis Stevenson
Modern · Intermediate
When London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson investigates strange occurrences involving his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde, he uncovers a disturbing mystery.
$5.00
Robert Louis Stevenson
Modern · Intermediate
This tale unfolds the complex dynamics between two brothers, the Master of Ballantrae and Mr. Henry Durie, set against the backdrop of the Jacobite risings in Scotland.
$5.00
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
Socrates asks the young mathematician Theaetetus a single question: what is knowledge?
$5.00
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Modern · Intermediate
Two short novels: in one a provincial hostess schemes to marry her daughter to an aged prince; in the other a man is sought out by the widower of his former mistress.
$5.00
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Modern · Introductory
Seven works of short fiction, including the title story of a lonely dreamer's four nights in St. Petersburg and the short novel Notes from Underground.
$5.00