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Dalkey Archive Essentials eBook Series

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  • Eros the Bittersweet

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Plainwater

    Essays and Poetry (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAstonishingly beautiful poems and essays that stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions“Carson has . . . created an individual form and style for narrative verse. . . . Seldom has Pound’s injunction ‘Make It New’ been so spectacularly obeyed.”—The New York Review of BooksThe ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Short Talks

    by Anne Carson ...
    Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and a new ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Beauty of the Husband

    A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**This “exquisite meditation on love and loss” (Elle) grapples with Keats’s idea that beauty is truth while telling the story of a marriage in twenty-nine “tangos”—which, like a marriage, must be danced to the end.“[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed marriage . . . [Carson’s] verse pierces the mind with a laserlike ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Eros the Bittersweet

    An Essay (Nobel Prize Winner)

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZENamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including ... Read more

    Was $109.89 CAD Now $19.79 CAD

  • The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

    by Sister Miriam Joseph, Marguerite McGlinn ...
    Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct" English. Strunk and White's Elements of Style and William Safire's column, "On Language," provide help on diction ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers: Spinoza

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Born to be misunderstood, Spinoza was a man whose theology was banned for Godlessness. The very virtuosity of his reasoning left logicians unsettled, while even to professional thinkers in our own time, Spinoza has seemed too clever by half.And yet, as Roger Scruton shows in this strikingly readable introduction to the man and his though, Spinoza's concerns were both simple and sublime. Few ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Poetics

    by Aristotle ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of imaginative writing, including poetry, drama, and fiction. For Aristotle, the art of representation ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • From Plato to Wittgenstein

    Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe

    by G.E.M. Anscombe ...
    Series Book 18 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    In 2005 St Andrews Studies published a volume of essays by Anscombe entitled Human Life, Action and Ethics, followed in 2008 by a second with the title Faith in a Hard Ground. Both books were highly praised. This third volume brings essays on the thought of historical philosophers in which Anscombe engages directly with their ideas and arguments. Many are published here for the first time and the ... Read more

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  • The Metaphysical Elements Of Ethics (Mobi Classics)

    by Immanuel Kant,Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Translator) ...
    If there exists on any subject a philosophy (that is, a system of rational knowledge based on concepts), then there must also be for this philosophy a system of pure rational concepts, independent of any condition of intuition, in other words, a metaphysic. It may be asked whether metaphysical elements are required also for every practical philosophy, which is the doctrine of duties, and therefore ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers: Aristotle

    by Kenneth Mcleish ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers that has ever lived. Taught by Plato, he was the first genuine scientist in history, a true pioneer of both science and philosophy. Widely credited as the inventor of the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Spinoza: Ethics

    Proved in Geometrical Order

    Edited by Matthew J. Kisner ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most significant texts of the early modern period, important to history, philosophy, Jewish studies and religious studies. It had a major influence on Enlightenment thinkers and the development of the modern world. In Ethics, Spinoza addresses the most fundamental perennial philosophical questions concerning the nature of God, human beings and a good life. His ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD