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Philosophical editions of classic literature

Every classic was written into a world of arguments — about morality, freedom, God, what literature itself should do. Most of that world has gone quiet. These editions restore it.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

MAGA, Putin, and the Seduction of the Past

The Great Gatsby

“The novel concerns the nature of the self: what a person is, whether a person can be remade, and what it costs, morally and spiritually, to attempt such a remaking.”

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Reason, Obsession, and the Abyss; Or, Make The Pequod Great Again

Moby Dick

“What happens to a democratic community when it is placed under the command of a will that recognizes no limit but its own?”

Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo

The Loss of Self and the Call of the Inhuman

The Wendigo

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

MAGA, Putin, and the Seduction of the Past

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Reason, Obsession, and the Abyss; Or, Make The Pequod Great Again

Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo

The Loss of Self and the Call of the Inhuman

The Great Gatsby

“The novel concerns the nature of the self: what a person is, whether a person can be remade, and what it costs, morally and spiritually, to attempt such a remaking.”

Moby Dick

“What happens to a democratic community when it is placed under the command of a will that recognizes no limit but its own?”

The Wendigo

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