Books by Isaiah Berlin currently in print in English


Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939; 5th ed., Karl Marx, 2013)
Princeton University Press, $29.95/£25.00, 9780691156507; ebook $20.97/£17.50, 9781400848119



The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History (1953; 2nd ed., USA 2013 / UK 2014)
UK (2014), Phoenix/W&N Essentials, £10.99, 9781474619707; ebook £8.99, Phoenix 9781780228433, W&N Essentials 9781780223070; audiobook £7.99, W&N Essentials 9781474619714
USA (2013), Princeton University Press, $12.95, 9780691156002; ebook $9.07, 9781400846634; audiobook $9.07/£7.69, 9780691226903


Phoenix   W&N Essentials   Princeton 

Russian Thinkers (1978; 2nd ed. 2008)
Penguin, £10.99, ebook £2.99, 9780141393179; $19.00, 9780141442204



The Age of Enlightenment: The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, selected with introduction and commentary, with the assistance of Marcus Dick (1956; 2nd ed. 2017)
The Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust, online only (free access)

Goya’s The Sleep of Reason

Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (1978)
UK: Pimlico, £18.99, 9780712665528, ebook £10.99, 9781448155460
USA: 2nd ed. (2013), Princeton University Press, $24.95/£25.00, 9780691157498; ebook $20.97/£17.50, 9781400848102

Pimlico  Princeton

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (1979)
UK: Pimlico, £25.00, 9780712666909; ebook £12.99, 9781446496190
USA: 2nd ed. (2013), Princeton University Press, $24.95, 9780691156101; ebook $17.47, 9781400843237

Pimlico Princeton

Personal Impressions (1980; 3rd ed., 2014)
UK (2018), Personal Impressions: Twentieth-Century Portraits, Pimlico, £24.00, 9781845952495; ebook (2nd ed.) £9.99, 9781448155477
USA (2014), Princeton University Press, $29.95/£25.00, 9780691157702; ebook $20.97/£17.50, 9781400851683

Pimlico  Princeton

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (1990; 2nd ed., 2013)
UK: Pimlico, £20.00, 9781845952082; ebook £9.99, 9781446496961
USA: Princeton University Press, $24.95/£20/00, 9780691155937; ebook $17.47, 9781400847815

Pimlico Princeton

The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History (1996)
UK: Pimlico, £20.00, 9780712673679, ebook £9.99, 9781446485590
USA: 2nd ed. (2019), Princeton University Press, $27.95/£22.00, 9780691182872

Pimlico FSG

The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays (1997)
UK: 2nd ed. (2013), Vintage, £30.00, 9780099582762, ebook £7.99, 9781446496954
USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30.00, 9780374527174

Vintage  FSG

The Roots of Romanticism (1999)
UK: Pimlico, £18.99, 9780712665445, ebook £8.99, 9781446496923
USA: 2nd ed. (2013), Princeton University Press, $12.95, 9780691156200; ebook $9.07, 9781400846696

 Pimlico  Princeton

The Power of Ideas (2000)
UK: Pimlico, £19.99, 9780712665544, ebook £8.99, 9781446496930
USA: 2nd ed. (2013), Princeton University Press, $29.95, 9780691157603, ebook $20.97/£17.50, 9781400848843

Pimlico Princeton

Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder (2000; 2nd ed., 2013)
UK: Pimlico, £20.00, 9781845952136, ebook £8.99, 9781446496978
USA: Princeton University Press, $35.00/£30.00, 9780691157658, ebook $24.50/£21.00, 9781400848522

Pimlico  Princeton

Freedom and its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty (2002)
UK: Pimlico, £18.99, 9780712668422, ebook, £8.99, 9781446496947
USA: 2nd ed. (2014), Princeton University Press, $29.95/£25.00, 9780691157573, ebook $20.97/£17.50, 9781400851430

Pimlico Princeton

Liberty (2002)
Oxford University Press, £38.99, $37.00, 9780199249893



The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism (2004; 2nd ed. 2016)
Brookings Institution Press, Brookings Classics, $29.95, 9780815728870, ebook $17.93, 9780815728887



Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought (2006)
UK: Pimlico, £25.00, 9781844139262, ebook £12.99, 9781446496428
USA: 2nd ed. (2014), Princeton University Press, $29.95/£25, 9780691158440, ebook $20.97/£17.50, 9781400852819

Pimlico Princeton

Unfinished Dialogue (with Beata Polanowska-Sygulska) (2006)
Prometheus, $29.99, 9781591023760; ebook 9781615927319



Letters in 4 volumes:

Flourishing: Letters 1928–1946 (2004)
Pimlico, £20, $36.95, 9780712635653; ebook £7.99, 9781448104789

Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960 (2009)
Pimlico, £18.99, $29.95, 9781844138340; ebook £10.99, 9781446496084

Building: Letters 1960–1975 (2013)
Chatto & Windus, $59.95, 9780701185763; Pimlico, £20, $37.95, 9781845952303; ebook £8.99, 9781446496084

Affirming: Letters 1975–1997 (2015)
Pimlico, £29.99, $38.95, 9781845952259; ebook £9.99, 9781473555396

         Affirming: Letters 19751997

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