Penguin Classics Collection Bookshelf Tour
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2021
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In which I show you all my Penguin Classics . . .
I'm not going to list the books mentioned in this video as there are too many, but here's a link to Penguin Classics: www.penguin.co.uk/brands/peng...
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I love these Penguin editions! They have amazing notes!
Your collection is so gorgeous!
I have some gothic literature from the penguin classics
Your collection is amazing! Definitely adding a few to my tbr!
Been waiting for this one! Thank you!
Love a good colletion. Penguine really does an amazing job with cover art!
Love your collection! I definitely appreciate the introductions and endnotes that Penguin includes (upon rereading).
I’ve been collecting the Penguin Classic Clothbounds recently. I now have 22. I really love your channel as I too love Classic Lit
Love the tour! I don't really have an imprint or set that I like to collect but I really enjoy finding old versions, like original or similar styles of Classics. If not those then the Folio Society or fancy editions with foil and the like on the spines and covers.
I have a lot of the black spined ones and a lot of the old style similar to your Wuthering Heights as I buy all my books second hand.
I didn't have access to classics as a teenager so I've always made a point to puck them up when I see them at thrift stores for a few dollars.
I have read many of them but I also see my bookshelves as books I can read throughout my life and lend out
Hi Katie- yes I have all of Jane Austen’s six novels in the Penguin black spine edition. I just love the look of them too. Thanks for sharing your shelves. 😀
All I can say is that I am really really jealous of those amazing books 📚 love your number one Australia fan John ❤️❤️
I love Penguin Classics, WOW.
I really like the critiques in the forwards of the Penguin Classics, often by a renowned contemporary author. Worth getting just for that, but I do find the print is a bit small for me these days, so I often don't buy the PCs new. I go for a good secondhand copy usually. Every now and then I buy something obscure that they put out, like Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan.
Completely agree that Penguin editions have the best introductions and notes. Thx
I'm happy to see you read brazilians books!
💖Wilkie Collins! My favs besides WinW are No name, A Rogue’s Life, Law and the Lady, and Man and Wife
Oooh, the Christina Rossetti with the Richard Dadd cover is nice. I don't collect as such, but have acquired a lot of pocket hardbacks in editions like Everyman, Oxford, Olive, Nelson and the like. They're convenient, and sewn, meaning that they have some structural integrity which doesn't just depend on glue. The Macmillan Collectors' Library editions are attractive, but the selection is rather ho hum.
I’m newer to reading so I’m working on building my book collection, I want to say I have a little over 50 books? I thrift mostly but I get a lot of pleasure out of that. The places I’m most interested in reading from are America, France, England, Brazil and Japan and I love anything between the 1880s and the 1930s-40s. Those are the golden years and places for me, but I do want to branch out more and I have no problem doing so when there are so many old books to enjoy as well. It’s 2am and I’m tired while writing this, I don’t think you’ll see this but have a great day (hopefully you said White rabbits).
Edit: I just watched the video and I’m surprised how similar our taste is for a lot of things. I’ll have to watch more by you to get more recommendations
love these editions! i always have to restrain myself from buying too many haha
Just finished "Pere Goriot" a few weeks ago, it was my first Balzac. I really liked it, and it's a quick read. The characterization is excellent in it, Paris is really one of the characters too. I think you'll really enjoy it!
I'm excited to read it!
Very interesting, informative and enjoyable. My "Mary Barton" is an Oxford World's Classics. I was surprised to find that the cover illustration was a detail from a painting of an American scene-The Strike(Pittsburg, 1877). Just expected it would be a British industrial scene. Would think there must be a bunch. I hit the jackpot! Years ago I read that Nathaniel Hawthorne was a big Anthony Trollope fan so I went out and bought an Anthony Trollope book. Randomly selected "The Small House At Allington." Just checked to make sure I still have it. I do, and it's a Penguin Classics. Going to see if I can find a poster of that "The Woodlanders" cover illustration painting. Thank you.
Goals!!
The edition of North and South I have has that same duplicate cover but the art is more zoomed in! It's the Oxford World Classics edition. I didn't realise William Morris wrote - I love his art designs (The Strawberry Thief is my favourite). You have an awesome collection. I really like the Penguin Black Classics, I think they look really classy, but I'm also partial to the Penguin Deluxe Editions too. I'm on a mission to try and read all the Bronte books. Jane Eyre was my first Victorian book too! (And I'm finally going to start with Dickens in 2022 🥰)
Strawberry Thief is my favourite too. I have a lampshade with it on :) Enjoy Dickens in 2022!
I think you and I have some similar collections and choices! What I didn't have was Sarah Waters, so last night I ordered one!
I'm reading and loving The Warden in a beautiful Penguin edition. I'm wanting to read through the series before the end of the year. I've previously read Barchester Towers and Framley Parsonage, but will read again in order. I have a better appreciation of Trollope now, too. He's excellent. Thanks for steering me towards him!
Anthony Trollope is amazing!
Pretty cool.
I have 2 novels with the same cover from Penguin too. 🤣
I love Penguin Classics, but I seem to collect more of the Oxford and Dover classics. Probably because they're usually a bit cheaper than the Penguins and I try to make my book money stretch as far as possible.
I love the Folio Society ones. They are just lovely! I have the entire Trollope collection in that edition (and Dickens, Gaskell, Brontës, EM Forster, Daphne du Maurier, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, etc.)
I also love the Oxford World's Classics. I love their covers and how floppy they are! Plus, I love that there is a huge selection of books available like the newly re-translated Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, etc. There Notes are sometimes a bit spoilery, but I prefer their translation choices more than I do Penguin's.
I do love the Folio books, though I only have one of them!
Lovely video 💞
Well those are a bit nice!
Funny you should describe George Gissing as 'The Urban Hardy'. I'd never heard of him until a couple of weeks ago, when he appeared in Martin Seymour Smith's biography of Thomas Hardy. I had no idea Penguin Classics included literature from other languages and cultures, I will investigate further. As regards favourite editions, my first addictions were when I worked in bookshops back in the early 80s (yes, I know, a long time ago) they were 'Picador' and 'Penguin Modern Classics'. It was during that time I first discovered 'Everyman Classics'. I collected some back then but my interest in Everyman has gone up a few gears with their recent format which is exquisitely produced. I recently reread The Woodlanders in an Everyman Classic edition - reading has never been such a tactile experience before. I'm a George Eliot fan and, bizarrely, I've never read Middlemarch. Consequently, the Everyman edition is top of my Christmas list this year. As always, thank you for your incisive combination of depth and enthusiasm.
Slightly off topic (but only slightly!), the only popular song that namechecks all three Bronte sisters is "Love Over And Over" by Kate and Anna Mcgarrigle. Required listening for any Bronte fan!
Do any other oldsters (i.e. me!) remember the slogan "p...p...p...pick up a penguin"? Think chocolate bars not classic literature! Loving the latest bookshelf tour and am currently re-reading "Our Mutual Friend" a mere 50 years after first reading it!
I'm 32 and I remember it, am I an oldster? :D
I'm 28 and also remember that XD
In the words of Maurice Chevalier "Yes, I remember it well" :)
The black spines are my go-to for hard copies. Can't say I favor either paintings or black and white covers, though Jerry's Dancing Dogs wouldn't have been my #1 cover choice for TOCS.
I like the penguin classics but am collecting he Wordsworth classics currently ☺️
I love the wordsworth editions.
Me too. Wordsworth classics are the cheapest option I can find hah
love your simplified description of "captains of the sand" for anglo-saxons💀
The Old Curiosity Shop cover is a curiosity, all right. I'm guessing those black and white covers are from the original serial illustrations?
And yes, there is a Penguin Classics edition of Sylvia's Lovers. Just checked Amazon and there it was.
Mentioning Amazon works, it's just links RUclips rejects!
I think the black and white covers are indeed from the original illustrations.
The TV movie version of Uncle Silas starring Peter O’Toole was SO creepy!
They definitely are beautiful looking books 📚 I love the painting covers better too..
When I saw Chekhov's short story, it made wonder if you read Russian classics ? I haven't heard you talk about them often .
I have read some - I like War and Peace and Anna Karenina and I read Crime and Punishment years ago. I LOVE Chekhov, both is plays and short stories, and I've enjoyed Turgenev and Pushkin's short works too. I need to read more though :)
O Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma is lovely, hope you enjoy it.
I did!
There is a lovely version of Sylvia's Lovers - you should look out for it :)
I need to get my hands on that . . .
Hahaha i came here to recommend you a Machado de Assis book, edited by penguin (the posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas), and i find you talking about Lima Barreto and Jorge Amado 😂 i loved it! Lima Barreto and Jorge Amado are good, but the best brazilian writers are Machado de Assis and Guimarães Rosa. Take a look at Clarice Lispector too.
Yes, I really liked The Alienist - I need to read Brás Cubas.
Penguin Black Spines are definitely my usual preference when it comes to classics but I do have a random assortment of other editions. The only other 'collection' I have is some of Trollope's books in an old Folio edition that I picked up for about £5 each second-hand, I love them as they have a real 'classic' look to them and the font is nice to read.
After watching this video:
I'm watching my *“green-eyed monster”* moving it's *“slow thighs”*
Jorge Amado is pronounced as George Amado ( not as in Spanish). The ‘J ‘ in Portuguese is pronounced as the ‘J’ in English ( John, Jonathan, even George) . Hope you don’t mind.
I love Penguin books, any type. And your collection is very good.
Thank you! I thought it was and then when I looked it up (as a whole name, the author, not just Jorge), it said it wasn't. But I'll know for the future :)
Love this bookshelf tour! Penguin Classics are my favorite. I'm very annoyed though by their new cover and spine look, with the title and author in white and a different font -- I don't understand the decision, but it sucks.
I am also a bit sad they've changed the design. I bought some of mine second hand so my sets matched.
Is there a master list somewhere for the black spine penguin books?
Not sure about a list exactly but most of them are listed on Penguin's website: www.penguin.co.uk/brands/PenguinClassicsCompleteList.html?redirect=false&sort=classicsYearPublish&classicsSeries=Penguin+Classics
Would you ever read one of the James Joyce tomes?
I have not! I've only read Dubliners by him.
I'm curious to know if you've read 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', or if perhaps, like me, you're reluctant it to read it, knowing it will sadden and frustrate you that it's incomplete?
I have indeed read it, and I loved it so much, and I'm so sad that it wasn't finished!
How can I get the older penguin classics the one with the orange text and glossy feel
I'm not sure I'm afraid! Second hand shops are probably the best place.
@@katiejlumsden it’s hard to find those where I live sadly!
The Our Mutual Friend cover is great, although the print is smaller than in other Penguin Dickens, same for Nicholas Nickleby - why do they do that? Not a fan of the new Penguin styles for Dickens, the paintings on the cover are better aesthetically. Also, some of the new Penguin books flop all over the place e.g. Sketches by Boz - of course Penguin say that they are better for reading? Will be great to hear a review on American notes - I think some of Dickens best writing can be found in his obscure stuff like this, The Uncommercial Traveller and the Christmas Stories - e.g. Mrs Lirriper & Somebody's Luggage.
I think they probably make the font smaller if the book is longer - so Our Mutual Friend is very thick already so they can't have the font too big. I like the floppy books though - I do find them easier to read!
read more brazilian literature, please 🤧❤️| Brazilian here 🇧🇷
I'd like to :)
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I recently had to read some Skteches by Boz for uni and I'm surprised its not in your Dickens collection! I also agree, I personally hate the new drawings they use for Dickens.