Ooh, I definitely need a Penguin Thomas Wolfe! And if I ever go back to get a PhD in literature-and Penguin publishes Meg-I might have to do a comparison with Moby Dick…
Everyman’s Library does the Transylvanian Trilogy in two hardcover volumes. I’m happy to finally get a good recommendation for it. It has interested me but I’ve never met a soul who has read it.
Thanks for speaking about Graveyard Clay. I just ordered it. Here in north Cork funerals are a big topic of conversation. They list the funerals every day on the radio after the news and if you make any sound you might get a slap.
I was going to suggest the Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis. The trouble is I could never get a copy of the only translation into English that I know of By Rieu. I read Rieu's translation of the Odyssey so that was perfectly acceptable to me. But finding a copy was another matter. So I feel uncomfortable recommending that I haven't read. I discovered today that a verse translation into English is being sponsored by something called The New Alexandria Project involving 42 translators and to be published in the summer of 2022. It's published by the Michigan University Press apparently as an e-book. Wow !
Which translations of the Romance of the Rose did you think were creaky? I have two: Charles Dahlberg’s edition for Princeton UP and Frances Horgan’s for Oxford World Classics. The only other English translation that I don’t have is the one by Harry Robbins, which is the oldest English version as far as I can tell.
I would like to see more classic scientific books on the Penguin Classic line, like Lectures on the phenomena common to animals and plants, by Claude Bernard, or Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by the same author. This guy works are the corner stone of modern medical physiology.
I definitely agree that Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel belongs in the Selection. After War and Peace, it's my favorite novel of all time. It is probably still in copyright. What about O lost--the edition that contains all the material that Perkins edited out. I have it, but have never gotten around to reading it.
For a fantasy collector Game, this penguin Classics cover generators, is a lot of, as i said before in the other video, the sky is the límit when You start playing it, of course is on the people that managed the company that decided what kind of books are printed,,but after that MORRISSEY book is anything is possible😄
Oh dear, I think the heat finally got to you with Meg. You might be able to make an argument for Jaws as a cultural totem (ditto The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, etc.). I see Penguin is adding a Rona Jaffe book next year, which makes me think anything goes at this point. But perhaps I just don't know enough about Rona Jaffe.
I'm surprised you didn't mention your beloved The Once and Future King, since they've come close. I'd add The Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird, George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, Lonesome Dove
I'm not familiar--never even heard of The Magyar books or its author. The one Hungarian writer I've heard of but haven't read much of is Mor Jokai. And there is the Austro Hungarian writer Robert Musil who wrote in German--most famously The Man Without Qualities (3 volumes) I read 1.5. volumes. I liked what I read. It was compared to Proust and his works were popular for about 30 years and now seem to have faded into obscurity.
They need to come out with a penguin classic of The Sylph by Georgiana Cavendish. The edition I have is an annoying transcript type university copy that is difficult to make out the words through the blotty print.
I have to disagree The Meg by Steve Alten should not be a Penguin Classic. Steve Alten in my opinion is not a good writer. The Meg is definitely not the next Moby Dick.
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Now we need a twist- books shouldn’t be in penguin classics!
Marvel and Morrissey.
I would gladly welcome a part 3
I had no idea about the 'Penguin Classics Cover Generator' but now I can't stop playing with it.
Thank you.
I love those videos and I want you to do 100 more, but i also want something more spicy: "books that are Penguin Classics... but shouldn't be"
Christ Stopped at Eboli. Great choice. I would love to see a Don Camillo collection on Penguin.
Ooh, I definitely need a Penguin Thomas Wolfe! And if I ever go back to get a PhD in literature-and Penguin publishes Meg-I might have to do a comparison with Moby Dick…
Everyman’s Library does the Transylvanian Trilogy in two hardcover volumes. I’m happy to finally get a good recommendation for it. It has interested me but I’ve never met a soul who has read it.
Last year I read three books by Jean Giono: Hill, The Open Road, and a strange little novella called Melville. I love his writing!
name the books in the description in case we miss the title? thank you
Thanks for speaking about Graveyard Clay. I just ordered it. Here in north Cork funerals are a big topic of conversation. They list the funerals every day on the radio after the news and if you make any sound you might get a slap.
I was going to suggest the Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis. The trouble is I could never get a copy of the only translation into English that I know of By Rieu. I read Rieu's translation of the Odyssey so that was perfectly acceptable to me. But finding a copy was another matter. So I feel uncomfortable recommending that I haven't read. I discovered today that a verse translation into English is being sponsored by something called The New Alexandria Project involving 42 translators and to be published in the summer of 2022. It's published by the Michigan University Press apparently as an e-book. Wow !
Which translations of the Romance of the Rose did you think were creaky? I have two: Charles Dahlberg’s edition for Princeton UP and Frances Horgan’s for Oxford World Classics. The only other English translation that I don’t have is the one by Harry Robbins, which is the oldest English version as far as I can tell.
This is great and I hope someone from Penguin is watching.
I would like to see more classic scientific books on the Penguin Classic line, like Lectures on the phenomena common to animals and plants, by Claude Bernard, or Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by the same author. This guy works are the corner stone of modern medical physiology.
I'm waiting for the Everyman's Library version of this 😋
I loved All the King's Men.
I definitely agree that Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel belongs in the Selection. After War and Peace, it's my favorite novel of all time. It is probably still in copyright. What about O lost--the edition that contains all the material that Perkins edited out. I have it, but have never gotten around to reading it.
This is a lot of fun, I could easily listen to more
For a fantasy collector Game, this penguin Classics cover generators, is a lot of, as i said before in the other video, the sky is the límit when You start playing it, of course is on the people that managed the company that decided what kind of books are printed,,but after that MORRISSEY book is anything is possible😄
Thank you!
Oh dear, I think the heat finally got to you with Meg. You might be able to make an argument for Jaws as a cultural totem (ditto The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, etc.). I see Penguin is adding a Rona Jaffe book next year, which makes me think anything goes at this point. But perhaps I just don't know enough about Rona Jaffe.
I'm surprised you didn't mention your beloved The Once and Future King, since they've come close. I'd add The Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird, George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, Lonesome Dove
The Orwell volumes have recently been added, though the cover for 1984 is hideous.
I wish I had known about that app that makes the fake Penguin covers! I had to make my own crappy ones! 😩
Also, U.S.A is still in print in the Library of America.
Oh Michael yours were great because you did make them yourself I only found the app because I was too lazy to make them myself 😂
I enjoyed your own made covers. Very creative
I'm not familiar--never even heard of The Magyar books or its author. The one Hungarian writer I've heard of but haven't read much of is Mor Jokai.
And there is the Austro Hungarian writer Robert Musil who wrote in German--most famously The Man Without Qualities (3 volumes) I read 1.5. volumes. I liked what I read. It was compared to Proust and his works were popular for about 30 years and now seem to have faded into obscurity.
They need to come out with a penguin classic of The Sylph by Georgiana Cavendish. The edition I have is an annoying transcript type university copy that is difficult to make out the words through the blotty print.
What a cool app!
I have to disagree The Meg by Steve Alten should not be a Penguin Classic. Steve Alten in my opinion is not a good writer. The Meg is definitely not the next Moby Dick.