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In this vein, ‘The Everyman’s Library’ collection excellently assembles classics on thick acid-free paper, cloth bindings, and essays introducing/contextualizing the work
Thanks. I’d not heard of them before, and looking at some of their collection I think I’ll be adding them to my list of books I want to buy.
Also a big fan of Asimov's "Robot Dreams".
Oxford University Press's World Classics paperback series has very many good books at prices comparable to NYRB's.
One caution though: when much younger, I thought that I had accomplished something when I bought a book, and I wrote the date of purchase on the flyleaf. Eventually, I learned that the purchase, even if it took half or more of an hour's wage, was the least of the investment. That might argue for your stocking up more gradually.
I have a set from more than 20 years ago, but I just checked and it is quite expensive now.
However, that being said, it has all of the classics.
Dude go to half priced books or your local secondhand bookstore and just clean house. Classics in particular are a dime a dozen. Here's a list of "classics" to give you some ideas: * A Hundred Years of Solitude * Crime and Punishment * East of Eden * Moby Dick * Shakespeare's collected works * Bible, Koran, etc - keep as many sacred tomes as you can * Plato's Republic, maybe some other philosophy classics like Thus S…
> Bible, Koran, etc - keep as many sacred tomes as you can what makes them sacred?
Dude go to half priced books or your local secondhand bookstore and just clean house. Classics in particular are a dime a dozen. Here's a list of "classics" to give you some ideas: * A Hundred Years of Solitude * Crime and Punishment * East of Eden * Moby Dick * Shakespeare's collected works * Bible, Koran, etc - keep as many sacred tomes as you can * Plato's Republic, maybe some other philosophy classics like Thus S…
> Bible, Koran, etc - keep as many sacred tomes as you can what makes them sacred?
There's something sacred in preserving exact words of something over thousands of years, through many languages.
- The Holy Bible - Moby Dick by Melville - The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky - The Master And Margarita by Bulgakov - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - The Iliad by Homer - The Odyssey by Homer - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandra Dumas - The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler - The Qur'an - The Prince by Machiavelli - The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - The Confessions by Saint Augustine - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - The Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi - The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric - Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric - Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun - Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger - All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque - The Divine Comedy by Dante
--- This list totals out at 311.14EUR and has 23 books. [0] - https://www.bookdepository.com/ [1] - https://www.betterworldbooks.com/