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.
Featured Title
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
The private reflections of a Roman emperor seeking clarity, discipline, and peace in a chaotic world.
Written in the few private moments of an emperor's life—on military campaigns, in the quiet hours before battle, far from the grandeur of Rome—Meditations was never meant to be read by anyone but its author. A journal by the most powerful man in the world reminding himself not to act like it.
What survives is something without precedent in the ancient world: a ruler holding himself to account, page after page, with a rigor he never demanded of anyone else.
Nearly two thousand years later, the questions he was asking have not changed. How do we act well under pressure? What do we actually control? How do we face loss, ingratitude, and mortality without losing ourselves in the process?
Meditations does not flatter its reader. It does not promise transformation or relief. It offers something rarer—the unguarded thinking of a remarkable mind, working through the hardest problems of a human life with patience, honesty, and almost unbearable clarity.
It has survived this long for a reason, and should be read by all.
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.
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.
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.
And Coming Soon!
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.
Herland
$15.95
A hidden all-female civilization challenges assumptions about gender, power, and society, revealing alternative possibilities for human cooperation, progress, and equality.
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