The gift: how the creative spirit transforms the world

Foreword / by Margaret Atwood

Preface to the third edition

A theory of gifts. Some food we could not eat ; The bones of the dead ; The labor of gratitude ; The bond ; The gift community ; A female property ; Usury: a history of gift exchange

Two experiments in gift aesthetics. The commerce of the creative spirit ; A draft of Whitman ; Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money.