Cambridge Editions present the works and correspondence of great thinkers and writers. Introductions, explanatory notes and textual apparatus accompany a reliable version of the text, aiding scholars and students alike.

Early Christian Writings

The literary legacy of the early Christians is vast and spans multiple linguistic traditions. The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings offers a representative sample of this diverse literature in six thematic volumes: God, Practice, Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, Creation and Community.

Hegel Translations

The Cambridge Hegel Translations offer English language versions of the best modern German editions of Hegel’s work, in a uniform format suitable for Hegel scholars, together with philosophical introductions and full editorial apparatus.

Proclus' Commentaries on Plato

The Cambridge Edition of Proclus’ Commentaries on Plato features his Commentaries on Republic and Timaeus in new English translations. The Commentary on Plato’s Republic is the first complete English translation of Proclus’ Commentary to appear, and the Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus is the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. Both Editions include introductions, glossaries and indices.

The Complete Fiction of Henry James

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides a full scholarly, informative, historical edition of James’s work, with detailed annotation and extensive introductions. This edition aims to represent James’s fictional career as it evolves, with a fresh and expanded sense of its changing contexts and an informed sense of his developing style, technique and concerns.

The Works of Samuel Richardson and the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson is the first fully annotated scholarly edition of Richardson’s works, including his securely attributable minor works. It includes extensive historical and textual introductions, providing authoritative accounts of the composition, publication, early reception and subsequent revision of each work.

Almost half of the surviving Richardson correspondence, which totals almost 1,700 letters, had never appeared in print before the Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. The Cambridge Edition is designed to become the uniform scholarly edition of Richardson’s letters, with extensive introductions that provide authoritative accounts of each of Richardson’s sets of correspondences. 

The Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy

The Cambridge Edition of Hardy, in line with contemporary editorial theory, follows an early text model that allows its readers to trace, through each volume, the work’s textual evolution. Each volume also provides a facsimile of the copy-text’s title page and a bibliographical description of the principal textual witnesses.

The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock

Each volume of the Cambridge Edition of The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock has a substantial introduction, incorporating original discussion of each work’s genesis and composition, its publication history, reception and afterlife. An extensive chronology of Peacock’s life, revised by Nicholas A. Joukovsky from his edition of the Letters, is also provided at the start of every novel.

The Works of Jane Austen

This is a full scholarly edition of the works of Jane Austen: the six published novels, two volumes of unpublished work and a volume setting Austen's work in its literary, cultural, political and social context. Each volume of published and unpublished work contains the text itself, with an introduction giving a full publishing history of the work, together with explanatory notes, textual apparatus and relevant appendices.

The Works of Jonathan Swift

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated scholarly edition ever undertaken of Swift's complete works in both verse and prose. Detailed introductions, notes and appendices aim to provide an informed understanding of Swift's place in the political and cultural history of England and Ireland, and to establish the historical, literary and bibliographical contexts of his immense achievement as a prose satirist, poet and political writer.

The Works of Schopenhauer

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer offers translations of the best modern German editions of his work in a uniform format suitable for Schopenhauer scholars, together with philosophical introductions and full editorial apparatus.

Works of Immanuel Kant

The Cambridge Edition is the first complete English-language edition of the works of Immanuel Kant. It offers scrupulously accurate translations of the best modern German editions in a format suitable for both scholars and students.

Other Cambridge Editions

Other key works in the Cambridge Editions collection feature great thinkers and writers including Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; William of Ockham; Aphra Benn; René Descartes; Sextus Empiricus; and George Berkeley.