Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

Jazzy wrote: "There is a gentleman named Stefano Bartlett on ebay who's father died, and he had collected over 200 Folio Society books, so they're being sold in wonderful condition at superb prices (some like br..."

You did well to find these, Jazzy. It’s good that a treasured collection is being shared by people like you who will appreciate it.

I found two really pretty box sets. I found one clothbound Jane Austen set that has 6 of her books. The other is a clothbound Bronte sisters set. I also found a really pretty illustrated edition of The One Hundred and One Dalmatians Set - 2 Books

Jazzy wrote: "There is a gentleman named Stefano Bartlett on ebay who's father died, and he had collected over 200 Folio Society books, so they're being sold in wonderful condition at superb prices (some like br..."

What wonderful additions. Nice that the books have been passed on.

The other aviation books by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are also great reads.
Southern Mail; Night Flight and Flight to Arras. I have all three that I tend to read every other year.

Lesle wrote: "Do not forget to check out our Group Photos of some of your favorite Libraries and your more than welcome to add your own bookcase, your favorite library or even store where you shop!

https://www...."

Thanks for the link, didn't know about this. Fabulous photos of stunning libraries and cozy reading corners :-)

Your more than welcome!

Anyone can add your favorite photo of your Library or a Library you visited. Even your own personal library of wonderful and beautiful books...they do not all have to be Classics to share!

See message 413 for a link to our Groups Photos!

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos

I am slowly adding an armful of books everyday onto my personal bookshelf. I do not want to overwhelm the home pages of my friends with a mixture of my purchases and Mom's books (mostly Mom's) into my library.

After the actual bookshelves are built, Scott took measurements last Friday and unfortunately got Strep shortly after :( I am hoping just to double check that all my books are logged!

I have found a couple of books from Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand and Don't Look Now actually in wonderful condition. Hardcovers of course :)

I retrieved from the mailbox this evening my own copy of The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey by Peter S. Beagle. This book is Beagle’s original tale, not the one many of us know from the animated 80’s movie and the classic 60’s novel. The copy I found is SIGNED & very worth the $40 I paid for it. One of my library coworkers has read the original tale and told me that it’s weird. I’m excited no matter what.

Lesle wrote: "Do not forget to check out our Group Photos of some of your favorite Libraries and your more than welcome to add your own bookcase, your favorite library or even store where you shop!

https://www...."
I added four pictures of my modest library. I hope they are of reasonable quality.

Very impressive indeed Gilbert! Thank you so much for sharing. I love the books in slipcovers, they just seem extra special to me.

Check out Gilbert's Library!

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Jazzy wrote: "Chekhov's only novel - The Shooting Party..."

Really nice cover on that one Jazzy!

Lesle wrote: "Jazzy wrote: "Chekhov's only novel - The Shooting Party..."

Really nice cover on that one Jazzy!"

It's so aesthetically pleasing as well! x

I found a really cute book online. The Library of Congress has it scanned in and you can read it for free! The book is All Aboard for Wonderland by Helen Ovington Kingsbury. I manually added it to goodreads because they didn't have it. I included the link to the LOC website. I can't search it yet but it said it could take a while for it to be searchable. The link is below.

https://www.loc.gov/item/18001718/

The following are ordered and on their way:
Title author "year
published"
Castle of otranto with nightmare abbey Hugh walpole 1764
The Mysteries of Udolpho Anne Radcliff 1794
The Monk Matthew Lewis 1796
"The Italian: or the confessional
of the black penitents" Anne Radcliff 1797
Zofloya:or the moor Charlotte Dacre 1806
The Rector and the doctor's family Mrs. Oliphant 1861
The Conquest of Plassans Emil Zola 1874
Women in love D.H.Lawrence 1920
Ulysses James Joyce 1922
Angelique in revolt Sergeanne Golon 1962
Angelique in Love Sergeanne Golon 1963

Gilbert wrote: "The following are ordered and on their way:
Title author "year
published"
Castle of otranto with nightmare abbey Hugh walpole 1764
The Mysteries of Udolpho Anne Radcliff 1794
The Monk Matthew Lewi..."

That’s quite a lovely treat from you to you!

My latest acquisition is a lonesome Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn. First published in 1969 and includes some delightful illustrations, too.

I recently picked up The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue: by Edna O'Brien

I really enjoyed The Country Girls trilogy, Kirsten.

Kathy wrote: "I really enjoyed The Country Girls trilogy, Kirsten."

I recently heard a dramatization on BBC Radio 4 and was totally caught up.

Just received: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson1759

Just received: He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope 1869

Just received: The Golden Days by Xueqin Cao 1792

I havent been ordering anyting until this week. Getting a couple Gothic Romances.

I have just been getting ebooks for various group reads, including A Sicilian Romance for this group.
For other groups-The Skylark of Space & Skylark Three: 2 Sci-Fi Books in One Edition, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, David Copperfield and some plays by Oscar Wilde.

I received in the mail yesterday https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... it is a beautiful addition. A Heritage Press edition.

Im pretty sure it was Member John Dishwater that reminded me I wanted to find this and add it to my library, Thank you!

With all the additions of my Mom's books to my library I think I will hold out on ordering new books for a while....well except a deal I cant pass up! lol

That sounds lovely.

That is a lovely cover, Lesle. I read that book for a university first year course and enjoyed it. It's a good version of their story.

At the Twig Bookstore I found:

Blue Fire / Black Amber by Phyllis A. Whitney

Graham Greene's The Comedians and

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

They only charge a dollar for hardcovers but I always donate more. The volunteer there was telling me that the movie for "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" had Tab Hunter in it. I will have to check it out someday.

My book arrived today!

The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale: 1925-1977
793pp, it's a brand-new hardcover.

The original price was £49.99, and I got it for £5.68 - Bargain.

The postman says, it looks like you're going to be busy for a while.

That is a good haul, Lesle!

You got a great bargain, Jazzy!

Lesle wrote: "The volunteer there was telling me that the movie for "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" had Tab Hunter in it. I will have to check it out someday..."

While it's a movie worth watching, don't see it expecting Tab Hunter to be in it or you will be disappointed. Unless he has an uncredited role in disguise, he's not in it. The volunteer was either mistaken, confused, or having a little fun with you - that Tab could be the 'lonely hunter.'
Tab is also not in the movie "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" and neither is Rock Hudson.

I am mainly removing books at present, but I recently got Nightmares and Geezenstacks, by Frederic Brown, as an ebook.

Lesle I think I have that Carson McCullers knocking about in a penguin paperback.

Bernard, I had to look up your book, quite interesting.

I read it as an impressionable child. But now I can enjoy it as an older, but wiser, person.

Brian wrote: "The volunteer was either mistaken, confused, or having a little fun with you..."

It is hard to tell. She might have just been wanting to make conversation. Who knows.

I went into Amnesty Bookshop today and bought From A Crooked Rib (1970) by Somalian author Nuruddin Farah for £2.

In this book Elba, a young Somalian woman, has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are "sold like cattle."

It is also available digitally from The Open Library
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22119....



I prefer to shop at the Amnesty Bookshop because it is run by volunteers and all the money goes to Amnesty International. In case you didn't know, Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end abuses of human rights.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/

I cannot remember who was discussing with Bernard about religion history so I did purchase A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong

I have not ever looked into other religions but I found your discussion interesting enough to look for something.

I hope it was a good choice to start with.

Just received Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

I was on my way to the doctor and passed the Oxfam, had plenty of time so I nipped in...and out with

Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith - Andrew Wilson

I just purchased Middlemarch. I have resolved to get my books from the library, to limit ingress, but my sisters and I have a 3 person book club and that is our next item. ( I got The Man from the Hight Castle from the Library, but have barely started it.) Also got Matthew Walker, WQhy We Sleep )Not a classic (yet) I know, sorry!)

Naphta wrote: "I just purchased Middlemarch. I have resolved to get my books from the library, to limit ingress, but my sisters and I have a 3 person book club and that is our next item. ( I got The Man from the ..."

Its ok! I have several modern writers I cannot do without their work!

Gilbert wrote: "Just received Future Shock by Alvin Toffler"

I wonder if you will find it dated or right to the point!

I got a few books on NetGalley - The one I just started reading is
The Bookseller's Tale - Martin Latham

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/boo...

Naphta wrote: "Gilbert wrote: "Just received Future Shock by Alvin Toffler"

I wonder if you will find it dated or right to the point!"

Having just started (now on P.30), it appears incredibly relevant to today. i'll let you all know further as the future hurtles towards us faster and faster.

I hit the jackpot! this is what I got -



In Search Of Lost Time, Volumes 1 To 6 Boxed Set - The Way By Swann's; In The Shadow Of Young Girls; The Guermantes Way; Sodom And Gomorrah; The Prisoner And The Fugitive; Finding Time Again (2002 Allen Lane Hardbacks)

Listed on this website, second-hand for £378.00
https://biblio.co.uk/book/search-lost...

And the whole set was just £12 from the Amnesty Bookshop!
Great condition. I ran all the way home and started organising my shelves so that they fit and I could admire them. I've already read Books 1 & 2 previously, so will start with Vol. 3.

Jazzy wrote: "I hit the jackpot! this is what I got -

In Search Of Lost Time, Volumes 1 To 6 Boxed Set - The Way By Swann's; In The Shadow Of Young Girls; The Guermantes Way; Sodom And Gomorrah; The Prisoner..."

You must be very happy with your find, Jazzy - I’m pleased for you.

yes! Thank you so much!!

I wanted the 3rd volume, so I looked about in the classics, then asked, Do you have any Proust?

The bookseller says, Proust? Come here, I have something for you!

and there in the NEW ARRIVALS they were, the box set.

Oooh, How much? I inquired.

£12.

I'll take them!! I said quickly and enthusiastically.

They look simply stunning on the bookshelf next to the letters of Sartre and Beauvoir by the way.

Lesle wrote: "I cannot remember who was discussing with Bernard about religion history so I did purchase A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by [author:Karen Ar..."

Neither can I! But it sounds like a good book. I read her account of her life as a nun, and as an ex-nun.

I bought an edition of Alice, with pictures by Arthur Rackham. A real bargain at only 47 pee!

Spiffing!

Rackham is one of the golden age illustrators.

Ha ha! I have not seen that word for yonks.

Indeed he is. My paper Alice has pictures by Carroll himself. They are less refined than the ones by Tenniel, but have a surreal quality which fits well with the story.