Russell Kirk’s Writings
Russell Kirk “has defended traditional
values in a culture that restlessly seeks the shock of the new.
Through numerous writings and lectures, conversations and seminars,
he has taught Americans about America—about its deeply conservative
habits, about the roots of its constitutional order, about the
Burkean influence on our Founders.”
—The Hon. John Engler
Below is a partial list of the books of Russell Kirk (memoirs, nonfiction,
and fiction), as well as various books about
him.
Items marked with a bullet are still in print or readily available;
for the others, we suggest you try a used book service such as abebooks.com or
the search service isbn.nu. Publishers’ contact
information is also below. You might also try searching for
titles at the Mecosta
Book Gallery, just down the street from the Kirk Center.
Watch our site for information on new editions. The American
Cause and The Roots of American
Order have just been released. Ancestral
Shadows, a new volume of his
collected stories (with foreword by Senior Fellow Vigen Guroian)
is now available from Eerdmans.
- In addition to the books below, Dr. Kirk edited thirty volumes
of The Library of Conservative Thought, many of
which are still in print from Transaction
Publishers.
- Dr. Kirk delivered sixty lectures at The
Heritage Foundation, several of which are available on-line.
- Audio recordings of several lectures that Dr. Kirk gave at
the Intercollegiate Studies Institute are available here.
- Dr. Kirk’s short stories are frequently included in anthologies
of fantasy and horror. Two volumes of his collected stories were
recently released from Ash Tree Press,
- Dr. Kirk’s story “Sorworth Place” was adapted
for television in Episode 23 of Rod Serling’s Night
Gallery (1972).
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The
Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary
Conflict |
1995 |
Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-3765-4 (cloth), 0-8028-3954-1
(paper) |
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The
American Cause |
1957, 1966, 2002 |
ISI
Books, ISBN 1-882926-93-5;
edited with a new introduction by Gleaves Whitney; Amazon.com
Listing; (earlier edition: Greenwood Publishing Group,
ISBN 0-8371-7988-2); Introduction
[PDF]; Chapter
One [PDF] |
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Rights
and Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution |
1997 |
Introduction by Russell Hittinger. Revised
and expanded version of Our Conservative Constitution. Spence
Publishing, ISBN 0-9653208-2-0; Amazon
listing with sample pages |
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Redeeming
the Time |
1996 |
ISI
Books, ISBN 1-882926-14-5
(cloth) and 1-882926-21-8 (paper); Preface
[PDF] |
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The
Politics of Prudence |
1993 |
ISI Books, introduction by Mark C. Henrie, ISBN 1-882926-01-3 (cloth) and 1-882926-00-5
(paper); Chapter
One [PDF] |
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The Conservative
Mind: From Burke to Eliot |
1953, 1995 |
Regnery,
ISBN 0-89526-724-1 (seventh edition, cloth). Also available
from Blackstone Audiobooks. Amazon listing with sample
pages |
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America’s British Culture |
1993 |
Transaction
Publishers, ISBN 1-56000-066-X; Amazon
Listing with Sample Pages |
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The
Roots of American Order |
1974, 1992, 2004 |
ISI
Books, foreword by Forrest McDonald (PDF),
ISBN 1-932236-08-2 (cloth), 1-882926-99-4 (paper); Amazon
listing; (earlier editions from Regnery Gateway, ISBN
0-89526-755-1) |
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The Portable Conservative Reader |
1982 |
Viking/Penguin, ISBN 0-14015-095-1; Amazon
Listing with Sample Pages |
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Eliot and His
Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth
Century |
1971, 1988 |
Random House, ISBN 0-394-47236-5;
Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-247-3 |
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Enemies of the Permanent Things:
Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics |
1969, 1984 |
Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-021-7 |
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Edmund
Burke: A Genius Reconsidered |
1967, 1988, 1997 |
ISI
Books, ISBN 1-882926-17-X; Foreword by Roger
Scruton. Amazon
listing with samle pages. Also available
from Blackstone Audiobooks. |
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The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things
Are Written on the Sky (eleven lectures) |
1987 |
Regnery,
ISBN 0-89526-574-5. Also available
from Blackstone Audiobooks. |
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Economics:
Work and Prosperity |
1988 |
ISBN 1-890624-12-8 |
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Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: Essays
of a Social Critic |
1956, 1991 |
Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-040-3. Amazon
Listing |
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Academic Freedom:
An Essay in Definition |
1955, 1977 |
Greenwood Publishing Group,
ISBN 0-8371-9566-7 |
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Prospects
for Conservatives |
1954, 1956, 1989 |
Regnery, ISBN 0-89526-761-6; Amazon
Listing with Sample Pages |
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John
Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in American Politics |
1951, 1964, 1978,
1994 |
Liberty Fund, fourth edition,
ISBN 0-913966-40-1 (paper), 0-913966-39-8 (cloth) |
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Ancestral
Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales |
2004 |
Eerdmans,
foreword by Vigen Guroian, ISBN: 0-8028-3938-X
(hardcover), 424 pages. |
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What
Shadows We Pursue: Ghost Stories, Volume Two |
2003 |
Ash-Tree
Press, ISBN 1-55310-051-4 (cloth); edited and with an
introduction by John Pelan |
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Off
the Sand Road: Ghost Stories, Volume One |
2002 |
Ash-Tree
Press, ISBN 1-55310-043-3 (cloth); edited and with an
introduction by John Pelan |
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Watchers at the Strait Gate (stories) |
1984 |
Arkham
House, ISBN 0-87054-098-X |
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Lord of the Hollow
Dark |
1979, 1989 |
first edition: St. Martin’s
Press; second edition: Christendom
Press, ISBN 0-931888-35-2 (paper) |
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The Princess of All Lands (stories) |
1979 |
Arkham House |
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A Creature of
the Twilight: His Memorials |
1966 |
Fleet Publishing Corporation |
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The Surly Sullen Bell: Ten Stories
and Sketches, Uncanny or Uncomfortable |
1962 |
Fleet Publishing Corporation |
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Old House of
Fear |
1961 |
Fleet Publishing Corporation
(cloth); Avon (paper) |
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Russell
Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind |
1999 |
By James E. Person, Jr., Madison Books,
ISBN 1-56833-131-2 (First
Things review) |
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The Unbought
Grace of Life: Essays in Honor of Russell Kirk |
1994 |
Edited by James E. Person,
Jr. Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-043-8 |
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Russell Kirk: A Bibliography |
1981 |
Compiled by Charles Brown, with an essay
by Henry Regnery. Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan
University |
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