Visionary stories worth remembering.
Classic books worth collecting.
Past Present Editions publishes updated and redesigned works of bold and influential literature, philosophy, and cultural insight.
Our books speak urgently to the modern world—from Stoic philosophy and early science fiction to strange tales, dystopian warnings, and literary masterpieces.
Introducing The Classics Series
Five New Titles. Fifteen Books Total. One Catalog Worth Owning.
Past Present Editions launched fourteen months ago with ten titles and a simple goal: to celebrate our favorite books over the years by redesigning them for a contemporary audience.
Today that catalog grows to fifteen.
We're thrilled to announce the release of five new Past Present Editions classics: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
These are five of the most celebrated novels in the English language, books that most people read in high school or college, but deserve another look (and if you don’t own them yet, to be added to your collection).
Placed alongside the existing ten—Meditations, The Metamorphosis, Passing, We, The Iron Heel, The Time Machine, The King in Yellow, The Purple Cloud, Herland, A Voyage to Arcturus—the fifteen titles now represent something genuinely cohesive and exciting: a growing catalog that moves across philosophy, literary modernism, speculative fiction, social realism, and the fantastic, unified by a single design system.
All fifteen titles are available now on Amazon.
If you're new to Past Present Editions, the best place to start is wherever your curiosity already lives. Philosophy: Meditations. American modernism: The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises. British literary fiction: To the Lighthouse or Great Expectations. The strange and visionary: A Voyage to Arcturus or The King in Yellow.
If you've been with us since the beginning, thank you. And we're just getting started!
The Collection
Passing
$15.95
One of the most incisive explorations of race, identity, and the fragile boundaries between the selves we live and the selves we conceal.
The Time Machine
$15.95
The Time Machine was H.G. Wells’ first novel, announcing him to the world with the confidence of someone who had been waiting to say something important and had finally found the form to say it in. And what he had to say about the future wasn’t good.
Meditations
$15.95
Marcus Aurelius was the most powerful man in the world. He wrote these notes to remind himself not to act like it.
The Great Gatsby
$15.95
A love story, a comedy of manners, and a devastating portrait of American desire—this is the novel that defined a century.
We
$15.95
Written before Orwell. Before Huxley. Before the word dystopia even existed, Zamyatin saw it coming first.
The Purple Cloud
$15.95
Prophetic, radical, and chillingly plausible, it stands as one of the earliest—and most unsettling—dystopian novels ever written.
The King in Yellow
$15.95
One of the defining works of weird fiction—a haunting collection whose influence echoes through Lovecraft, Borges, and modern horror itself.
The Iron Heel
$15.95
Jack London’s prophetic dystopia exposes corporate tyranny, resistance, and power, to reveal how fragile democracy becomes when wealth consolidates and dissent disappears entirely.
To The Lighthouse
$15.95
An elegy, a meditation on time, and the most precise account of human consciousness ever rendered in fiction, Woolf's masterpiece and one of the great novels in any language.
The Sun Also Rises
$15.95
A portrait of a “lost generation” after war that might be the most exquisite demonstration of Hemingway’s power of restrained prose.
The Metamorphosis
$15.95
Spare, precise, and deeply unsettling, The Metamorphosis remains one of the most enduring explorations of identity, isolation, and what it means to remain human in an indifferent world.
A Voyage to Arcturus
$15.95
Equal parts science fiction, philosophy, and spiritual quest, A Voyage to Arcturus is one of the most extraordinary and original works of speculative fiction ever written.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
$15.95
At once a dark comedy, a moral fable, and a genuine horror story, The Picture of Dorian Gray is the most wickedly intelligent novel of the nineteenth century.
Herland
$15.95
A hidden all-female civilization challenges assumptions about gender, power, and society, revealing alternative possibilities for human cooperation, progress, and equality.
Great Expectations
$15.95
A comic masterpiece and a heartbreaker in equal measure, this is the most honest account in English literature of what it costs to become someone you were never meant to be.
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