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Books for an evolving philosophy.

The Common Books form the complete literary cycle. Companion works explain, practise and develop the tradition around them. Digital editions bought here include both EPUB and PDF.

The literary collection

The Common Books

The thirty-four literary works are currently published across nine collected digital volumes.

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Common Books Volume I

The opening volume of the complete literary cycle, containing the Opening Narrative and the Book of Beginnings.

Opening Narrative · Book of Beginnings

£5.99
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Common Books Volume II

The second collected volume of the Common Books, containing the Household Book.

Household Book

£6.99
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Common Books Volume III

The third collected volume of the Common Books, containing the Road Book.

Road Book

£5.99
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Common Books Volume IV

The fourth collected volume of the Common Books, containing the Book of the Ruler.

Book of the Ruler

£4.99
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Common Books Volume V

The fifth collected volume of the Common Books, containing the Rebellion Chronicle and Book After Victory.

Rebellion Chronicle · Book After Victory

£7.99
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Common Books Volume VI

The sixth collected volume of the Common Books, containing the war books, the Trial Book and Woman Who Would Not Be Comforted.

First War Book · Second War Book · Third War Book · Trial Book · Woman Who Would Not Be Comforted

£7.99
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Common Books Volume VII

The seventh collected volume of the Common Books, bringing together six contrasting works of grief, work, movement, inward life and disagreement.

Laments · Farmer · Traveller · Merchant’s Account · Inner Country · Correspondence of Faith and Doubt

£6.99
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Common Books Volume VIII

The eighth collected volume of the Common Books literary cycle.

Collected canonical works

£7.99
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Common Books Volume IX

The ninth and final collected volume of the Common Books literary cycle.

Collected canonical works

£5.99
Collections

Buy the library together.

The collection prices are lower than buying every included title separately.

Digital collection

Complete Common Books Digital Collection

All nine published Common Books volumes in one digital collection. Every volume includes both EPUB and PDF.

£39.99
Digital collection

The Complete Continuance Digital Library

The complete current digital library: all nine Common Books volumes, The Book of the Continuance, The Practice Book, Living Tradition Framework and A First Introduction.

£49.99
Companion works

Read around the philosophy.

Exposition, practice and the living framework of the Continuance.

The Book of the Continuance cover
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The Book of the Continuance

An exposition of the Continuance philosophy, its arguments and their limits. It sits beside the Common Books as a companion work.

Principal modern exposition

£3.99
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The Practice Book of the Continuance

A companion for individual and shared practice, observance, reflection and the ordinary shared life of the Continuance.

Practice · observance · reflection

£4.99
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Living Tradition Framework

Guidance for how an evolving philosophy can develop without pretending that every later decision was already fixed at the beginning.

Framework

£2.99
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A First Introduction

The short public introduction for anyone who wants to understand the essentials of the Continuance before going further.

Free introduction

Free