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.
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- 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. Kirks short stories are frequently included in anthologies of fantasy and horror.
- Dr. Kirk’s story “Sorworth Place” was adapted for television in Episode 23 of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery (1972) (currently streaming on Hulu; a link and discussion are here).
Memoirs |
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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) | |
Nonfiction and Collected Essays |
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The Essential Russell Kirk | 2007 | Edited and with introduction by George A. Panichas. ISI Books, ISBN 1933859016 | |
Rights and Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution | 1997 | Introduction by Russell Hittinger. Revised and expanded version of The Conservative Constitution (Regnery, 1990). Spence Publishing, ISBN 0-9653208-2-0; Amazon listing with sample pages | |
Redeeming the Time | 1996 | ISI Books, ISBN 1-882926-14-5 (cloth) and 1-882926-21-8 (paper); Preface [PDF] | |
The Politics of Prudence | 1993, 2004 | ISI Books, introduction by Mark C. Henrie, ISBN 1-882926-01-3 (cloth) and 1-882926-00-5 (paper); Chapter One [PDF] | |
Americas British Culture | 1993, 2005 | Transaction Publishers, ISBN 1-56000-066-X (hardback); ISBN 978-1-4128-0457-8 (paper); Amazon Listing | |
Economics: Work and Prosperity | 1988 | ISBN 1-890624-12-8 | |
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. | |
The Portable Conservative Reader | 1982 | Viking/Penguin, ISBN 0-14015-095-1; Amazon Listing with Sample Pages | |
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) | |
Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliots Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century | 1971, 1988, 2008 | ISI Books, with a new introduction by Benjamin G. Lockerd Jr., ISBN1933859539 (Amazon listing); Random House, ISBN 0-394-47236-5; Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-247-3 | |
Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics | 1969, 1984 | Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-021-7 | |
Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered | 1967, 1988, 1997 | ISI Books, ISBN 1-882926-17-X; Foreword by Roger Scruton. Amazon listing with sample pages. Also available from Blackstone Audiobooks. | |
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] | |
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: Essays of a Social Critic | 1956, 1991 | Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-040-3. Amazon Listing | |
Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition | 1955, 1977 | Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-8371-9566-7 | |
Prospects for Conservatives | 1954, 1956, 1989 | Regnery, ISBN 0-89526-761-6; Amazon Listing with Sample Pages | |
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 | |
John Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in American Politics | 1951, 1964, 1978, 1994, 1997 | Liberty Fund, fourth edition, ISBN 0-86597-150-1 (paper), 0-86597-149-8 (cloth). Amazon listing | |
Novels and Collected Stories |
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Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of GhostlyTales | 2004 | Eerdmans, foreword by Vigen Guroian, ISBN: 0-8028-3938-X (hardcover), 424 pages. | |
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 | |
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 | |
Watchers at the Strait Gate (stories) | 1984 | Arkham House, ISBN 0-87054-098-X | |
Lord of the Hollow Dark | 1979, 1989 | first edition: St. Martin’s Press; second edition: Christendom Press, ISBN 0-931888-35-2 (paper) | |
The Princess of All Lands (stories) | 1979 | Arkham House | |
A Creature of the Twilight: His Memorials | 1966 | Fleet Publishing Corporation | |
The Surly Sullen Bell: Ten Stories and Sketches, Uncanny or Uncomfortable | 1962 | Fleet Publishing Corporation | |
Old House of Fear | 1961, 2007 | Eerdmans, ISBN 0802817629. Earlier editions: Fleet Publishing Corporation (cloth); Avon (paper) | |
Books About Russell Kirk |
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The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk | 2007 | By Gerald J. Russello, University of Missouri Press, ISBN 978-0-8262-1720-2 | |
Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology | 2004 | By W. Wesley McDonald, University of Missouri Press, ISBN 0826215122 | |
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) | |
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 | |
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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Publisher Information |
Eerdmans Publishing Company | 800-253-7521 | |
ISI and ISI Books | 800-526-7022 | |
Liberty Fund Press | 800-955-8335 | |
Madison Books (imprint of Cooper Square Press) | 800-462-6420 | |
Viking (imprint of Penguin Putnam Publishing Group) | 800-788-6262 | |
Regnery Publishing, Inc. | 202-216-0600 | |
Sherwood Sugden & Company (division of Open Court Publishing Company) | 800-815-2280 | |
Spence Publishing | 888-773-6782 | |
Transaction Publishers | 888-999-6778 |