I like the older Penguins with the yellow cover. I just like the art on the cover page. I like World Classics. They are almost like the Penguins. I like to see uniformity on my shelves with my classics. But if I want a copy of a book and I order it used, I have to get what I can get. If you read Hardy, be prepared. He is not a romantic, he is a natural writer so the themes and stories do not all end well. But he writes beautifully. He will take you on a nature walk and you really see what he describes. Unbelievable! Thanks for the tour.
I love Penguin books. I don't focus on buying a certain publication and instead pick out which cover I like best. That said I love the Penguin English Library editions. Swoon I also like a lot of the Penguin Deluxe series
I have read it three times. My favorite translation is the one by Lydia Davis. I find it a book to be savored for lack of a better word. Emma Bovary for me is not a likeable character, but the story is so interesting and so advanced for the time it was written. It broke the conventions. It captures provincial life in France in such a way that as a reader, I felt that I was there. I am willing to re-read it if you want to do a buddy read later in the year. @@Shellyish
Great video! I prefer Penguin over any other publisher and for the same reasons as yours. And a tip for Bulgakov's Master and Margarita: Goethe's Faust and Bulgakov go hand in hand. Start with Goethe and a lot of things in Bulgakov will make more sense and intensify the reading experience.
I read the 2003 translation _Don Quixote_ by Edith Grossman and enjoyed it (I laughed, I cried). That one was from Harper Collins. I think your Penguin edition is the 2000 John Rutherford translation, which should be good, too. My earlier attempt to read an 18th century translation I found to be unnecessarily difficult.
I’d love to read her translation, I heard that she passed away recently and her translations to my knowledge are universally adored so I want to contribute to keeping her work alive in any way I can.
Good morning. I love collections of books. I have every book that has won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature/Fiction. Some of them are the Franklin Library Editions. My partner and I just redid our basement. We now have this huge space divided into two rooms. One is her office and the other is my office/library. I just need to get a comfortable chair besides my desk chair. I still need to do some shelf organizing and an unhaul. I love books.
love your video ideas!! i loveee a penguin classic!! if a book i want has a penguin classic version that’s my go to so this was a fun vid n i had no idea the new black n white classics were for accessibility!! how interestin!!
I never thought of the newer design of the regular black spine line being more inclusive....but I actually hate the new design :P idk it just looks cheaper to me and less classic looking. And I like the contrast between the author and title, instead of looking exactly the same- especially for titles that are names. I know they're such small details but I also don't like change and it's worse when you don't like the changes, lol! thankfully I know it'll take a while for them to switch over to the new design for AALLLL the books available in those editions (hopefully) btw the edition of Memoirs of Hadrian (30:36) is from their Penguin Modern Classics line, if you didn't know/realize.
Great collection! I love all penguins but of course am partial to the clothbound classics since it’s my intentional collection but not near as many as the black with white band.
You have a wonderful collection! Love Steinbeck! Enjoyed Flaubert! The Republic brought back terrible memories as I found it really boring when it was required reading at some point in my education. 🙂
Loved seeing which penguin books you have. I don’t appear to have many penguin black spines on my shelf but that might be that I had some and un-hauled them after I read them. 🤷♀️ Anyhoos thank you for sharing this with us!!
The scales fell from your eyes😊 Re the Wallace Stegner controversy, he partially based his book on the life of Mary Hallock Foote and her husband. Mary was a writer herself and kept journals of her life, from which Stegner borrowed heavily without attribution. At least some of the beautiful writing in the novel is actually Mary’s. Some have defended Stegner by claiming that since Mary’s journals hadn’t been published at the time, there was no copyright violation. Technically, copyright exists from the moment of a work’s creation. However in order to file a copyright infringement lawsuit, the creator has to officially register his/her copyright before doing so.
Oooh! Just checked out Penguin Nature Classics (didn’t even know this existed!) and found The Land of Little Rain. As someone born and raised in SoCal, I have spent many wonderful vacations in the various Southwest deserts. It’s on my Kindle wishlist now! P.S. I’m gonna have to put on my big girl pants one of these days and try to tackle The Count of Monte Cristo…. That page count is intimidating.
It was a sad day for me when I got a penguin classic that wasn’t a floppy book.. every single other if ordered ether online or second hand have been floppy. I have now 1 random stiff penguin book lol do you know anything about Penguin Epics the greatest stories collection? It a collection of 20 books but I cant find anything online about these editions, I found listings on eBay for them. … I think the saying you might have been trying to say was ‘the rose tinted glasses have come off and or ‘the dust has settled’ - seems you might have been combining the two? 9:97
Penguin black spine classics used to be my go-to but I really hate the new version! Not only for aesthetic reasons. The quality has been downgraded as well! The covers are thin and easily damaged! And, they now use this cheap, gray paper across their range and the printed text isn't as sharp as before. I much prefer the Oxford World Classics these days.
@@Shellyishthis is completely off topic. I was scrolling through my feed, and I stopped to look at your thumbnail (usually when I see your new posts I just click-any topic ☺️). Oh my goodness, I just wanted to say You are stunning.
The new penguin classics are horrendously bad. It looks like they deliberately wanted to make the cover art ugly. The Dickens collections is completely ruined.
Penguin Classics are the best!
I love used ones. Thank you for this great idea.
They are!
It is a lovely collection! Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome!
Love your home decor, especially the Tiffany lamp and book nook!
Thank you!!
I like the older Penguins with the yellow cover. I just like the art on the cover page. I like World Classics. They are almost like the Penguins. I like to see uniformity on my shelves with my classics. But if I want a copy of a book and I order it used, I have to get what I can get. If you read Hardy, be prepared. He is not a romantic, he is a natural writer so the themes and stories do not all end well. But he writes beautifully. He will take you on a nature walk and you really see what he describes. Unbelievable! Thanks for the tour.
Oh, thanks! I'll keep that in mind when I finally pick up Thomas Hardy.
Nice video! I just finished Ethan Frome and the companion novel, Summer. So so good!!! Love Edith Wharton’s writing.
The best!
I love Penguin books. I don't focus on buying a certain publication and instead pick out which cover I like best. That said I love the Penguin English Library editions. Swoon
I also like a lot of the Penguin Deluxe series
The Penguin Deluxe series is very beautiful and so well designed.
I also have multiple copies of Madame Bovary, including the same little market paperback you have, which I had to read in college.
Did you like Madame Bovary? I feel reluctant to read it for whatever reason.
I have read it three times. My favorite translation is the one by Lydia Davis. I find it a book to be savored for lack of a better word. Emma Bovary for me is not a likeable character, but the story is so interesting and so advanced for the time it was written. It broke the conventions. It captures provincial life in France in such a way that as a reader, I felt that I was there. I am willing to re-read it if you want to do a buddy read later in the year. @@Shellyish
Great video! I prefer Penguin over any other publisher and for the same reasons as yours.
And a tip for Bulgakov's Master and Margarita: Goethe's Faust and Bulgakov go hand in hand. Start with Goethe and a lot of things in Bulgakov will make more sense and intensify the reading experience.
Thank you for the tip!!
I read the 2003 translation _Don Quixote_ by Edith Grossman and enjoyed it (I laughed, I cried). That one was from Harper Collins. I think your Penguin edition is the 2000 John Rutherford translation, which should be good, too. My earlier attempt to read an 18th century translation I found to be unnecessarily difficult.
Oh! That's encouraging! Thank you, John!
I’d love to read her translation, I heard that she passed away recently and her translations to my knowledge are universally adored so I want to contribute to keeping her work alive in any way I can.
The old cover font is more classy, it feels more sophisticated.
Good morning. I love collections of books. I have every book that has won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature/Fiction. Some of them are the Franklin Library Editions. My partner and I just redid our basement. We now have this huge space divided into two rooms. One is her office and the other is my office/library. I just need to get a comfortable chair besides my desk chair. I still need to do some shelf organizing and an unhaul. I love books.
I have a Penguin Classics Deluxe collection . I just love them so much!
Thanks for sharing!! I love books too! They are simply wonderful! :)
love your video ideas!! i loveee a penguin classic!! if a book i want has a penguin classic version that’s my go to so this was a fun vid n i had no idea the new black n white classics were for accessibility!! how interestin!!
Thank you so much! :)
I never thought of the newer design of the regular black spine line being more inclusive....but I actually hate the new design :P idk it just looks cheaper to me and less classic looking. And I like the contrast between the author and title, instead of looking exactly the same- especially for titles that are names. I know they're such small details but I also don't like change and it's worse when you don't like the changes, lol! thankfully I know it'll take a while for them to switch over to the new design for AALLLL the books available in those editions (hopefully)
btw the edition of Memoirs of Hadrian (30:36) is from their Penguin Modern Classics line, if you didn't know/realize.
All I can say is that I love penguins 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧books prayers and blessings for you and your family love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
Thank you, John!! :)
@@Shellyish your welcome 🙏
Great collection! I love all penguins but of course am partial to the clothbound classics since it’s my intentional collection but not near as many as the black with white band.
Those clothbound books are really very beautiful.
You have a wonderful collection! Love Steinbeck! Enjoyed Flaubert! The Republic brought back terrible memories as I found it really boring when it was required reading at some point in my education. 🙂
I feel like I read a couple of excerpts of The Republic in college as well, but I cannot fully remember. Thank you, BJ! :)
Loved seeing which penguin books you have. I don’t appear to have many penguin black spines on my shelf but that might be that I had some and un-hauled them after I read them. 🤷♀️
Anyhoos thank you for sharing this with us!!
THANK YOU, Charlie! :)
The scales fell from your eyes😊 Re the Wallace Stegner controversy, he partially based his book on the life of Mary Hallock Foote and her husband. Mary was a writer herself and kept journals of her life, from which Stegner borrowed heavily without attribution. At least some of the beautiful writing in the novel is actually Mary’s. Some have defended Stegner by claiming that since Mary’s journals hadn’t been published at the time, there was no copyright violation. Technically, copyright exists from the moment of a work’s creation. However in order to file a copyright infringement lawsuit, the creator has to officially register his/her copyright before doing so.
I love Penguin books and I can’t explain why.
Oooh! Just checked out Penguin Nature Classics (didn’t even know this existed!) and found The Land of Little Rain. As someone born and raised in SoCal, I have spent many wonderful vacations in the various Southwest deserts. It’s on my Kindle wishlist now! P.S. I’m gonna have to put on my big girl pants one of these days and try to tackle The Count of Monte Cristo…. That page count is intimidating.
Best of luck with The Count! It's been on my TBR for quite a while.
*scales*. The scales fell from your eyes.
😂😂. Great video so far👍 (of course)
HA! Thank you!
Thomas Hardy is fantastic! What a beautiful writer!
I cannot wait to read him!
Thanks for the info!
🧡🌻
A lot of my classics in the penguin imprint.
It was a sad day for me when I got a penguin classic that wasn’t a floppy book.. every single other if ordered ether online or second hand have been floppy. I have now 1 random stiff penguin book lol do you know anything about Penguin Epics the greatest stories collection? It a collection of 20 books but I cant find anything online about these editions, I found listings on eBay for them. … I think the saying you might have been trying to say was ‘the rose tinted glasses have come off and or ‘the dust has settled’ - seems you might have been combining the two? 9:97
Thanks.
You are very wrong about Gaskell: the storylines were wrapped up and the book is basically complete.
Thanks for the correction.
15:57 I prefer the prior version of the colophon.
Beautiful penguin classic. .how many books do you read on the go. I’m trying three at the moment. ❤😊
I usually have two to four books on the go. :) Thank you, Helen!
Penguin black spine classics used to be my go-to but I really hate the new version! Not only for aesthetic reasons. The quality has been downgraded as well! The covers are thin and easily damaged! And, they now use this cheap, gray paper across their range and the printed text isn't as sharp as before. I much prefer the Oxford World Classics these days.
Hmmm. Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
Im not super into Austen never read her I'm more of a Dickenson i can see shes very popular though
I have a zillion Steinbeck Penguins. Never read one.
Ha! You see that I'm the same!
You remind me of Penny from The Big Bang Theory, but with dark hair and similar eyes and expressions.
Awe!! Thank you!!
The scales have fallen from your eyes. A biblical phrase used about the Apostle Paul.
Thank you, Todd! ☺️☺️
Scales have fallen from your eyes.
Thanks!
@@Shellyish I enjoyed your presentation. Thank you for posting
Scales fallen from my eyes…
Ha! Thank you!
@@Shellyishthis is completely off topic. I was scrolling through my feed, and I stopped to look at your thumbnail (usually when I see your new posts I just click-any topic ☺️). Oh my goodness, I just wanted to say You are stunning.
@@kamidsjournee Awe! Thank you!! ☺️
The new penguin classics are horrendously bad. It looks like they deliberately wanted to make the cover art ugly. The Dickens collections is completely ruined.
Ha!