The Penguin Classics are my personal favorites! I am always trying to find different ones in bookstores and even in second-hand shops! My advice is looking on different second-hand book websites and also looking in thrift stores! The first Penguin Classic I ever bought was The Iliad by Homer!
Im a new reader. Yesterday i went to a library. I looked for a book that i wanted to buy. I found it but it was completely different from the one i saw on pinterest and insta.. from the cover to the size of the book... like it's completely different. Like i don't understand why there are many covers and sizes... of a same book is it publishers or whatever?? Like I'm confused is it a different edition or a different publisher oe what i don't understand and how can i buy (and know) the real original first version of a book.??
The brothers Karmazov is another level of greatness! You must make time for it and read it soon. Preferably in winter. Long books always feel like winter or fall books to me
@@dggjr1759 Unfortunately I don’t know. I read it in Arabic. But a good way to decide which translation is right for you is to read the first few pages of both and see which flows better for you. Hopefully someone else will give you a recommendation ✨
Absolutely lovely. I was happy to see Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh in your modern classics. That's my favorite book. I suppose it is a slow burn, but I adored it all the way through. It's so thoughtful, so fun, and so thoroughly British! And then it gets so flipping sad. I'm so glad you think it's wonderful as well.
Just love to see every inch of your bookalicious bookshelf. How many different books can you be reading at the time? Don't the contents mix up in your head? If you scan your already read books, how well do you remember the contents of them? After ten years of reading classics you are quite aware of the good ones and the bad ones. The next ten years, which one would you prefer? Reading ever more new classics or choosing ten or twenty best ones and reading them over and over again? Just a thought because it's been said that in the best classics there are layers after layers and digging ever deeply it always gives you new perspectives and insights.
I have read Alone in Berlin, and have that same copy. I really enjoyed it. I'm a fairly slow reader, but that book read quick for me, couple of weeks. The pace I thought was excellent. Vibrant characters. It is a little dour and depressing, but oddly hopeful too, in that an individual can make a difference.
I'm obsessed with the Penguin Modern Classics. I've started collecting them too and so far all of the novels have been excellent. The Grapes of Wrath, Alone in Berlin, and Swann's Way are on my 2023 'hopefuls' list. Steinbeck is my favourite author so I'm planning to read a lot more of his work next year.
Carolyn - if you want an Ibsen work to start off with, I definitely recommend A Doll’s House! It’s tons of fun to read into the subtext of it, I think you’ll enjoy it 😊
my favourite books mentioned here as well as some of my favourite books of all time are the book of disquiet and on the road!! and I think you should read the book of disquiet soon especially it's such a good book!
You asked about Zola, he happens to be one of my absolute favorites and I read his books in French, éditions Le Livre de Poche, the French equivalent of Penguin. Starting with Thérèse Raquin seems to be a wise choice as it does not belong to his humongous series of Rougon-Macquart. You may start the series in order though I remember I read Germinal as my first book at 14, I liked the cover and it was just sitting there at our home library. I was then hooked and I read most of the series. Highly recommended
I'm a theatre student and a big chunk of one of the semesters we studied Ibsen in my history class. We read A Doll's House and When We Dead Awaken. Doll's House was fantastic. When We Dead Awaken I honestly can't remember it so we either didn't finish or it was just forgettable.
100 recommendations for woman in white!! i absolutely loved this book :D he does do a lot of rambling and i made the mistake of having it one of the first classics i read... but recommend it a lot!!
Love your vids - so chill and interesting - The Stephen fry reading of the Sherlock Holmes series is amazing! - highly recommend when you get around to Holmes
I have about three of these! My Penguin Classics are mostly in the old edition, and getting quite yellow now; on balance my preference is for the OUP paperbacks but it's pretty marginal - the textual notes and bibliographies tend to be a bit more thorough, but they're both good, affordable academic editions. Nowadays I'm more inclined to go to AbeBooks and look through the hardbacks, which can prove to be surprisingly cost effective: for instance I recently wanted a copy of a Trollope novel in a hurry and wound up with a clean Folio Society book for a third less than the new Penguin, including delivery. No scholarly apparatus, admittedly, but that wasn't a concern.
Hans Fallada's (you nearly pronounced it right, it's just more Fállada, not Falláda) is really good. I'm reading it currently myself. Also for "Werther" - I didn't feel like it was that depressing. Goethe made the protagonist to some extent unlikeable, which makes it easier to not fully feel for him
Please read East of Eden by John Steinbeck! It's my favorite book of all time! it has such complex characters and the story is addictive! Worth the 602 pages
I think you should prioritize The Sorrows of Young Werther :) I haven't read many classics, but this is one of my favorites. A quote from it I really like: "I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
I love anyone who collects classic like I do. You should prioritize The Women in White. Wilkie Collins is considered one of the fathers of mystery. This book is amazing.
I like the Penguin Classics aesthetically, also; however, they are too political for me as a corporation, and happen to support a lot of things I don't. So, I think I'll begin collecting the Oxford editions. Really enjoyable video! Thanks for sharing. :)
I prefer the Penguins over Oxfords. And I also prefer the look of the older Penguin Classics compared to the new design. I actually haven't read any comment or heard anyone say they prefer the new ones. Personally I think they lost a bit of personality with the lack of orange and differentiation of font. I also think on spines a titles and authors should have some visible difference and with the new design they look the same. I've been trying to get more of these editions, especially titles of the same author, because of the design change and I'm hoping that it takes a while for the new ones to be fully integrated and become the only ones readily available (as brand new).
well, to pick one, I guess it would have to Confederacy of Dunces, which is so very funny. The close runner-up - in case you wondered - is Miller's All My Sons, a story about corruption.
Read On the Road, of course, and East of Eden, which in my opinion is more beautiful a book than the widely appreciated Grapes of Wrath. Something else I enjoyed in my twenties was Crime and Punishment, but you might have read that already. Yes, read The Brothers Karamazov, but there are other books I read before taking on that tome and I’m glad I did. And yes, Penguin BS all the way! 😅
Great work. You may be interested in talking about Elizabeth Paradiso Urassa's books. They are very good for university students and may help the loved ones not to drop out of their studies. I appreciate what you are doing. Thank you very much.
Would you like to read "The Rainbow Troop" by Andrea Hirata and "The Land of Five Towers" by Ahmad Fuadi. So so mesmerising and are addicted. Try them.
Hey Carolyn. I'm from Germany , Hans Falladas Alone in Berlin ( Jeder stirbt für sich alleine) is my favourite novel. It's about the quiet, yet deeply moving resistence in Nazi Germany.
I read Little Man, What Now? (Kleiner Mann, was nun?) by Hans Fallada on a whim this year because it was on my parents‘ bookshelf and it has stuck with me ever since. Definitely thumbs up for Fallada!
Book mentioned: - A study in Scarlett - The lady of the Camellias - Martin Chuzzlewit - Bel - Ami - Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Woman in White - Metamorphoses - Ovid - Don Quixote - The Count of Monte Cristo - Madame Bowary - Wutherin Heights - Pride and Prejudice - Hamlet - The Blacker the Berry - Passing - Nella Larson - The marquise of o - and other stories - The Decameron - The curious case of benjamin button - The moon is down - Ethan Frome - The old curiosity shop - Oliver twist - Great Expectations - The mystery of Edwin Drood - Great Expectations - Thomas Hardy - Selected Poems - The Pickwick papers - Evelina - Peer Gynt and Brand - The sorrows of young werther - The Letters of vincent van Gogh - Cavalleria Rusticana and other stories - The book of disquiet - Therese Raquin - All my sons - Death of a salesman - Twelve Angry Men - Once there was a war - Maurice - Aspects of the novel - The longest journey - A passage to India - The epic of Gilgamesh - The three theban plays - We have always lived in the castle - The crucible - Lolita - Perfume - the story of a murderer - a confederacy of dunces - Swann's way - Alone in Berlin - On the road - Brideshead revisited - The grapes of wrath - Anna Karenina - The cossacks and other stories - The death of Ivan ilych and other stories - Childhood, boyhood, youth - Plays - Anton Chekhov - The Brothers Karamazov - Poor folks and other stories
I can see that you've only recommended the first book in the In Search of Lost Time . I think you should've recommended the whole ouvre of Marcel Proust
@@CarolynMarieReads The Woman in White is arguably W.K's greatest Novel. But I would recommend "The Dead Secret" as a 1st Wilkie Collins Novel to Read. It's only about 360 Pages and it's very good.
The Count of Monte Cristo is well worth it you should just hop right into it, one of the most digestible classics I have ever read. Kept my interest the whole 1000+ pages and I blew through it, one of my all time favorites.
@@oceanblvd26 you are talking very concise, to the point, softly and your aura is very healing... Emmie is bit aggressive,speaks like she's trying to attract next person and chooses lot of fantasy books ...I admire simplicity over showoff.
The Woman in White has one of the best villains I've ever read, and also has one of the best supporting female characters! I choose my nickname because of her. The protagonists are a bit lame but those two characters trully worth the reading. And the mystery keeps you engaged. I would love to know your thoughts on this novel when you decide to read it.
Yes, A Doll's House is very important, even if you're a woman. I read that play as a teenager, during they 1970s, and a few years later a good friend of mine took me to a production of it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Of course I haven't retained all of it but I have retained a surprising portion of it.
I'm so glad you compared the penguin and oxford editions as that was going to be my first question! I definitely prefer the black spines over white, but the oxford edition of War and Peace has a beautiful cover that draws me back to it every time 😩
I highly recommend to check the kindle samples of both Penguin and Oxford editions of any book you're planning to buy just to see which one seems like a better option. In my experience Oxford tends to fare better than Penguin regarding the extra contents
Im a new reader. Yesterday i went to a library. I looked for a book that i wanted to buy. I found it but it was completely different from the one i saw on pinterest and insta.. from the cover to the size of the book... like it's completely different. Like i don't understand why there are many covers and sizes... of a same book is it publishers or whatever?? Like I'm confused is it a different edition or a different publisher oe what i don't understand and how can i buy (and know) the real original first version of a book.??
I want to learn all about editions covers publishers og books pirated books hardcovers vs paperbacks .. newyork times best seller?? And what are classics or novels and stuff
@@joshuamatthew2897 you are getting into very muddy waters with that last question. If you're looking at NEW releases you're pretty much guaranteed an "original first version of a book" with the following caveats: the title wasn't picked up by the publisher after gaining traction as a fanfic because then it was most likely modified in some way before official publishing; you pre-ordered it, because otherwise you run the risk of getting a subsequent printing depending on how popular it turns out to be and while the book will be IDENTICAL in any meaningful way you won't get a "first printing" which is usually the most valuable edition of a book; and finally you need to get the edition from the country in which it was first published since there may be slight differences between the editions depending on the market, including WHO is the publisher (while they can be published globally by the same "Publishing House" this is not guaranteed and even if they are the "Imprint", a specialized brand name within the publishing house, may not be the same. After this your mostly looking at Special Editions without any meaningful change to the text and your main worry should be which one do you like more If your looking at older books things get more complicated, the copyright holders could have change and particular introductions or forewords might not be available anymore unless you're willing to hunt for them in the second hand market, but again, the main text should pretty much be IDENTICAL to the original text as first published barring typos, punctuations. And in works published during the last century one can occasionally find the authors coming back to rework the original text by making more substantial changes or publishers reintegrating parts that were previously censored (see the American editions of Philip Pullman's "The Amber Spyglass"). Reputable Publishers will usually mention any such changes somewhere in the book. And finally if you're looking at works published over a century ago and already on the public domain and are still aiming for the "real original first version of a book" you really have to research info on every title you´re interested in because all that I just mentioned is 10 times more relevant. Between the manuscript and the book as published today A LOT did happen! Maybe the book was first published in installments on some periodical and was then revised before being turned into a book, maybe it was being published as both at the same time and the story and structure changes a little in each (see "Lady Audley's Secret"), maybe it was published as a book but the typos and punctuation changes were too many and it took 3 editions before the "definitive" text was settled on by the author, or maybe after those 3 editions the author decides to go back and rework the text 25 years later to make the heroine less likable and while that version of the text doesn't stick on the original language that become the standard version used for translation in other languages (see Alexandre Dumas fils "La Dame aux Camélias "), or maybe the author was fine with her work but her bitter sister approves of a censored edition to make the characters more likeable after the author dies and then that also becomes the standard edition of the text for decades, and the one that gets international fame before being restored although the damage on the international markets will still linger for another 2 centuries (see Anne Brontë's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"). And while some of those titles are usually available as digitized copies online as they first appeared in print, if you´re lucky you might even find the manuscript, fair copies or first editions corrected and annotated by the author you're still never guaranteed the "real original first version of a book". My advice: stick to Oxford World's Classics editions of older books because the do have information about changes done to the text, the Penguin Classics with the black spines are a close second (the Kindle samples of both ARE your friends, do not overlooked them) and then go to the fancy annotated versions which tend to be more expensive. And for newer books, unless you are looking at these more as a collector than a reader, don't overthink it, get the edition you like best, the text should be the same (unless they say "abridged", then it does mean that is a condensed version of the text and that parts of it that don't actually affect the plot have been removed)
Madam, I'm from Papua New Guinea, in the pacific, and I am a classic life long reader,. But need DONATOONS of the whole collection to make my own library.
You have a wonderful vast collection of the Penguin Classics. I think I'm an Oxford World Classics girl but I also love the Penguin, too. I'm not sure about Shirley Jackson, are her novels depressing? It seems to me a lot of classics are very sad or very depressing? I have suffered from depression and I'm not sure I want to delve into novels with that content.
Funny that Proust is "Modern Classic" and yet is 100 years old. 2023 Suggestions: The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, Count of Monte Crisco (LOL). For your birthday, I sent a Penguin Black Spine The Grapes of Wrath, but it must have been lost in the mail. If you get to _On the Road_ it should be in 2323, not 2023 - it is that awful!
I just wanted to say that this is one of the videos that's prompted me to start collecting classics again after 20+ years. You talk so enthusiastically about each of the editions, and it's easy to see how much the authors' works mean to you. Thanks so much for the continued inspiration!
I agree 100% on the older penguin vs the current style. I bought all the dickens in the black spines with the ink pictures, and even amongst them I have some that are the older style and some that are the newer style and it drives me crazy.
Correct, but worth noting that it's not "fees" as in "membership fees" - the "s" on the end really is an "sss" sound, not a "z". Or, if you prefer, "fils" rhymes with "fleece", not "flees" :)
I want to say that The Tale of Genji, to my knowledge, holds the title of first novel. It precedes Don Quixote by about 600 years and Murasaki Shikibu is just great.
Great video! Yes, you’re pronouncing Boccaccio and Verga right 👌 I’ve also heard that Don Quijote is considered the first novel, but I think a more proper one for the title is The Tale of Genji by Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, written in the eleventh century
When I get on my treadmill I listen to the audiobook the count of Monte Cristo because it is so big so I would rather listen to the audio. That’s how I got through the book
I think ‘Ghosts’ is a pretty good place to start with Ibsen. Terrific play that exhibits his feminism but also a nice dose of 19th century anti-clericalism.
Yes Italian Literature!! If you like fantasy-esque type of stories I'd recommend "Invisible Cities" by Calvino. They make us read it in highschool because it's really short and easy. A great book to start :)
The penguin blackspines are gorgeous and have good content inside, but I feel like no one talks about the low quality of the covers, the get soo easily wrecked and scratched and ripped, while other editions are much more durable :/ I still love them though
I'm french so I had to read Thérèse Raquin by Zola for school and I really enjoyed it! From what I remember it's a pretty odd book about guilt and the human nature and what probably kickstarted my love for "weird" books.
I as well am intensely passionate about the Penguin collection. Also, I always look to see who's painting is displayed upon the cover, so in that manner we share the same fondness. Thank you for this episode.
Dont be intimidated by Sophocles' plays! I read Antigone and excerpts of the others this year and the texts are really accesible and fairly short! The stories are also wonderfully dramatic and easy-ish to understand, as plays were written for the masses, too, back then! And theyre just finger-lickingly dramatic to read😮💨😮💨
You know, if you talk about Sophocles, or another of the Greek playwrights you can include in your discussion the power of fate, but just try talking about fate and trying to sound reasonable when talking about Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment! They seemed to have learned that to some degree we are watching ourselves perform a puppet-show or a play. In this respect I think maybe the Modernists lose their arguments, which tend to be more theoretical than practical.
Hi, new subscriber. I personally love ❤ “The Woman in White”. A great autumnal book to read. Mystery, romance, danger, and intrigue. Wilkie Collins is a favorite of mine, especially “The Law and the Lady”. Thank you for sharing all your thoughts on books.
The Penguin Classics are my personal favorites! I am always trying to find different ones in bookstores and even in second-hand shops! My advice is looking on different second-hand book websites and also looking in thrift stores! The first Penguin Classic I ever bought was The Iliad by Homer!
Im a new reader. Yesterday i went to a library. I looked for a book that i wanted to buy. I found it but it was completely different from the one i saw on pinterest and insta.. from the cover to the size of the book... like it's completely different. Like i don't understand why there are many covers and sizes... of a same book is it publishers or whatever?? Like I'm confused is it a different edition or a different publisher oe what i don't understand and how can i buy (and know) the real original first version of a book.??
The brothers Karmazov is another level of greatness! You must make time for it and read it soon. Preferably in winter. Long books always feel like winter or fall books to me
Haha that’s perfect- I just started it and I’m pretty sure it’ll take me all winter
Нам в России буквально пихают их в горло, а потом мы терпеть не можем нашу русскую литературу
Which translation is better: Peaver or McDuff, or someone else???
@@dggjr1759 Unfortunately I don’t know. I read it in Arabic. But a good way to decide which translation is right for you is to read the first few pages of both and see which flows better for you. Hopefully someone else will give you a recommendation ✨
@@dggjr1759definitely Peaver
Absolutely lovely. I was happy to see Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh in your modern classics. That's my favorite book. I suppose it is a slow burn, but I adored it all the way through. It's so thoughtful, so fun, and so thoroughly British! And then it gets so flipping sad. I'm so glad you think it's wonderful as well.
The book of Disquiet! Lovely to see Portuguese literature on your channel 😍
Totally agree with you. The older Penguin is much better than the new ones.
Love your channel
I feel we all dislike the new Penguin Black Spines 😅. I love these bookshelf tours!
True true.
I’m almost on chapter 33 of The Count of Monte Cristo and I’m enjoying it! I’m also reading In Search of Lost Time. 😊
East of Eden is in my top 3 favorites!! Steinbeck is a treat, you'll love him!! Super evocative, amazingly fleshed out characters.
That’s my favorite book but I just started reading. What are your other two?
I love this collection of Penguin Black spine classics! You made my day, Carolyn! 💖📚✨
I’ve always enjoyed Henrik Ibsen’s works. I would suggest ‘A Doll’s House’ to begin your Ibsen adventure.
Just love to see every inch of your bookalicious bookshelf. How many different books can you be reading at the time? Don't the contents mix up in your head? If you scan your already read books, how well do you remember the contents of them?
After ten years of reading classics you are quite aware of the good ones and the bad ones. The next ten years, which one would you prefer? Reading ever more new classics or choosing ten or twenty best ones and reading them over and over again? Just a thought because it's been said that in the best classics there are layers after layers and digging ever deeply it always gives you new perspectives and insights.
I ❤ Penguin Classics! And such a broad range of selections (moreso than Oxford World's Classics, which I love also).
I have read Alone in Berlin, and have that same copy. I really enjoyed it. I'm a fairly slow reader, but that book read quick for me, couple of weeks. The pace I thought was excellent. Vibrant characters. It is a little dour and depressing, but oddly hopeful too, in that an individual can make a difference.
I'm obsessed with the Penguin Modern Classics. I've started collecting them too and so far all of the novels have been excellent. The Grapes of Wrath, Alone in Berlin, and Swann's Way are on my 2023 'hopefuls' list. Steinbeck is my favourite author so I'm planning to read a lot more of his work next year.
Carolyn - if you want an Ibsen work to start off with, I definitely recommend A Doll’s House! It’s tons of fun to read into the subtext of it, I think you’ll enjoy it 😊
Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies Paradise/The Ladies' Delight) by Émile Zola is my favourite book, so I definitely recommend reading it!
My collection is very small, but growing! I prefer the ones with the penguin in the orange circle too.
my favourite books mentioned here as well as some of my favourite books of all time are the book of disquiet and on the road!! and I think you should read the book of disquiet soon especially it's such a good book!
Your colection is beautiful!! Congratulations and thank you ❤
Excellent! Those collections are very interesting and so beautifull... Greating from Dominican Republic.🇩🇴
You asked about Zola, he happens to be one of my absolute favorites and I read his books in French, éditions Le Livre de Poche, the French equivalent of Penguin. Starting with Thérèse Raquin seems to be a wise choice as it does not belong to his humongous series of Rougon-Macquart. You may start the series in order though I remember I read Germinal as my first book at 14, I liked the cover and it was just sitting there at our home library. I was then hooked and I read most of the series. Highly recommended
I'm a theatre student and a big chunk of one of the semesters we studied Ibsen in my history class. We read A Doll's House and When We Dead Awaken. Doll's House was fantastic. When We Dead Awaken I honestly can't remember it so we either didn't finish or it was just forgettable.
100 recommendations for woman in white!! i absolutely loved this book :D he does do a lot of rambling and i made the mistake of having it one of the first classics i read... but recommend it a lot!!
Love your vids - so chill and interesting - The Stephen fry reading of the Sherlock Holmes series is amazing! - highly recommend when you get around to Holmes
I have about three of these! My Penguin Classics are mostly in the old edition, and getting quite yellow now; on balance my preference is for the OUP paperbacks but it's pretty marginal - the textual notes and bibliographies tend to be a bit more thorough, but they're both good, affordable academic editions. Nowadays I'm more inclined to go to AbeBooks and look through the hardbacks, which can prove to be surprisingly cost effective: for instance I recently wanted a copy of a Trollope novel in a hurry and wound up with a clean Folio Society book for a third less than the new Penguin, including delivery. No scholarly apparatus, admittedly, but that wasn't a concern.
I love these editions. Nice collection.
I love it! I want it!, I actually have only 5 penguin classics haha :c
Hans Fallada's (you nearly pronounced it right, it's just more Fállada, not Falláda) is really good. I'm reading it currently myself. Also for "Werther" - I didn't feel like it was that depressing. Goethe made the protagonist to some extent unlikeable, which makes it easier to not fully feel for him
The Book of Disquiet ( _Livro do Desassossego_ , in Portuguese) is a very good choice, this book was written by one of various Pessoa's heteronyms.
Carolyn, i think you should start zola, from his "Germinal" first.
I recomend “a doll’s house” by henrik ibsen!
Please read East of Eden by John Steinbeck! It's my favorite book of all time! it has such complex characters and the story is addictive! Worth the 602 pages
I think you should prioritize The Sorrows of Young Werther :) I haven't read many classics, but this is one of my favorites. A quote from it I really like: "I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
I love anyone who collects classic like I do. You should prioritize The Women in White. Wilkie Collins is considered one of the fathers of mystery. This book is amazing.
I like the Penguin Classics aesthetically, also; however, they are too political for me as a corporation, and happen to support a lot of things I don't. So, I think I'll begin collecting the Oxford editions.
Really enjoyable video! Thanks for sharing. :)
Pretty!!
I prefer the Penguins over Oxfords. And I also prefer the look of the older Penguin Classics compared to the new design. I actually haven't read any comment or heard anyone say they prefer the new ones. Personally I think they lost a bit of personality with the lack of orange and differentiation of font. I also think on spines a titles and authors should have some visible difference and with the new design they look the same. I've been trying to get more of these editions, especially titles of the same author, because of the design change and I'm hoping that it takes a while for the new ones to be fully integrated and become the only ones readily available (as brand new).
Nice video Carolyn!
well, to pick one, I guess it would have to Confederacy of Dunces, which is so very funny. The close runner-up - in case you wondered - is Miller's All My Sons, a story about corruption.
amazing amazin amazing collection
Read On the Road, of course, and East of Eden, which in my opinion is more beautiful a book than the widely appreciated Grapes of Wrath. Something else I enjoyed in my twenties was Crime and Punishment, but you might have read that already. Yes, read The Brothers Karamazov, but there are other books I read before taking on that tome and I’m glad I did. And yes, Penguin BS all the way! 😅
you need to read The Count of Monte Cristo its a great story of jealousy and revenge
I would always recommend Nana by Emil Zola
Great work. You may be interested in talking about Elizabeth Paradiso Urassa's books. They are very good for university students and may help the loved ones not to drop out of their studies. I appreciate what you are doing. Thank you very much.
Would you like to read "The Rainbow Troop" by Andrea Hirata and "The Land of Five Towers" by Ahmad Fuadi. So so mesmerising and are addicted. Try them.
Hey Carolyn. I'm from Germany , Hans Falladas Alone in Berlin ( Jeder stirbt für sich alleine) is my favourite novel. It's about the quiet, yet deeply moving resistence in Nazi Germany.
I read Little Man, What Now? (Kleiner Mann, was nun?) by Hans Fallada on a whim this year because it was on my parents‘ bookshelf and it has stuck with me ever since. Definitely thumbs up for Fallada!
have y’all read thomas wolfe?
Carolyn, I love your posts A recommended book is The power and the glory by Graham Greene
lovely person lovely books, very jealous
I'm so confused. Is there a difference between the penguin little black classics and this edition. 'I'm very sorry. I'm a starter.
11:18 Laurel & Hardy
Book mentioned:
- A study in Scarlett
- The lady of the Camellias
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Bel - Ami
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The Woman in White
- Metamorphoses - Ovid
- Don Quixote
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Madame Bowary
- Wutherin Heights
- Pride and Prejudice
- Hamlet
- The Blacker the Berry
- Passing - Nella Larson
- The marquise of o - and other stories
- The Decameron
- The curious case of benjamin button
- The moon is down
- Ethan Frome
- The old curiosity shop
- Oliver twist
- Great Expectations
- The mystery of Edwin Drood
- Great Expectations
- Thomas Hardy - Selected Poems
- The Pickwick papers
- Evelina
- Peer Gynt and Brand
- The sorrows of young werther
- The Letters of vincent van Gogh
- Cavalleria Rusticana and other stories
- The book of disquiet
- Therese Raquin
- All my sons
- Death of a salesman
- Twelve Angry Men
- Once there was a war
- Maurice
- Aspects of the novel
- The longest journey
- A passage to India
- The epic of Gilgamesh
- The three theban plays
- We have always lived in the castle
- The crucible
- Lolita
- Perfume - the story of a murderer
- a confederacy of dunces
- Swann's way
- Alone in Berlin
- On the road
- Brideshead revisited
- The grapes of wrath
- Anna Karenina
- The cossacks and other stories
- The death of Ivan ilych and other stories
- Childhood, boyhood, youth
- Plays - Anton Chekhov
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Poor folks and other stories
Thank you for this! :)
I can see that you've only recommended the first book in the In Search of Lost Time . I think you should've recommended the whole ouvre of Marcel Proust
Thank you so much ❤
Wish I would of seen this before I skimped through the video.
@@CarolynMarieReads The Woman in White is arguably W.K's greatest Novel. But I would recommend "The Dead Secret" as a 1st Wilkie Collins Novel to Read. It's only about 360 Pages and it's very good.
The Count of Monte Cristo is well worth it you should just hop right into it, one of the most digestible classics I have ever read. Kept my interest the whole 1000+ pages and I blew through it, one of my all time favorites.
Your Penguin Classics collection look so cool. Seems like they're all taken care of.
"Taken care of" is not how I would describe a book that has never been read, which most of these were at the time of upload.
Just what I needed this Friday! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! 🍁🥰
Aw I’m so glad! Thank you, I hope you had a great thanksgiving as well! 🧡
Ibsen 's Doll's House is absolutely beautiful and so inspiring
Don’t be daunted by Sophocles - it’s amazing - so easy to read
I like your way of explaining and emoting more than Emmie
really? why’s that?
@@oceanblvd26 you are talking very concise, to the point, softly and your aura is very healing... Emmie is bit aggressive,speaks like she's trying to attract next person and chooses lot of fantasy books ...I admire simplicity over showoff.
The Woman in White has one of the best villains I've ever read, and also has one of the best supporting female characters! I choose my nickname because of her. The protagonists are a bit lame but those two characters trully worth the reading. And the mystery keeps you engaged. I would love to know your thoughts on this novel when you decide to read it.
About Ibsen: A Doll's House is a good place to start (if you don't mind reading plays)! Loved to look through this part of your book collection!
Yes, A Doll's House is very important, even if you're a woman. I read that play as a teenager, during they 1970s, and a few years later a good friend of mine took me to a production of it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Of course I haven't retained all of it but I have retained a surprising portion of it.
I'm so glad you compared the penguin and oxford editions as that was going to be my first question! I definitely prefer the black spines over white, but the oxford edition of War and Peace has a beautiful cover that draws me back to it every time 😩
I highly recommend to check the kindle samples of both Penguin and Oxford editions of any book you're planning to buy just to see which one seems like a better option.
In my experience Oxford tends to fare better than Penguin regarding the extra contents
Im a new reader. Yesterday i went to a library. I looked for a book that i wanted to buy. I found it but it was completely different from the one i saw on pinterest and insta.. from the cover to the size of the book... like it's completely different. Like i don't understand why there are many covers and sizes... of a same book is it publishers or whatever?? Like I'm confused is it a different edition or a different publisher oe what i don't understand and how can i buy (and know) the real original first version of a book.??
I want to learn all about editions covers publishers og books pirated books hardcovers vs paperbacks .. newyork times best seller?? And what are classics or novels and stuff
@@joshuamatthew2897 you are getting into very muddy waters with that last question.
If you're looking at NEW releases you're pretty much guaranteed an "original first version of a book" with the following caveats: the title wasn't picked up by the publisher after gaining traction as a fanfic because then it was most likely modified in some way before official publishing; you pre-ordered it, because otherwise you run the risk of getting a subsequent printing depending on how popular it turns out to be and while the book will be IDENTICAL in any meaningful way you won't get a "first printing" which is usually the most valuable edition of a book; and finally you need to get the edition from the country in which it was first published since there may be slight differences between the editions depending on the market, including WHO is the publisher (while they can be published globally by the same "Publishing House" this is not guaranteed and even if they are the "Imprint", a specialized brand name within the publishing house, may not be the same. After this your mostly looking at Special Editions without any meaningful change to the text and your main worry should be which one do you like more
If your looking at older books things get more complicated, the copyright holders could have change and particular introductions or forewords might not be available anymore unless you're willing to hunt for them in the second hand market, but again, the main text should pretty much be IDENTICAL to the original text as first published barring typos, punctuations. And in works published during the last century one can occasionally find the authors coming back to rework the original text by making more substantial changes or publishers reintegrating parts that were previously censored (see the American editions of Philip Pullman's "The Amber Spyglass"). Reputable Publishers will usually mention any such changes somewhere in the book.
And finally if you're looking at works published over a century ago and already on the public domain and are still aiming for the "real original first version of a book" you really have to research info on every title you´re interested in because all that I just mentioned is 10 times more relevant. Between the manuscript and the book as published today A LOT did happen! Maybe the book was first published in installments on some periodical and was then revised before being turned into a book, maybe it was being published as both at the same time and the story and structure changes a little in each (see "Lady Audley's Secret"), maybe it was published as a book but the typos and punctuation changes were too many and it took 3 editions before the "definitive" text was settled on by the author, or maybe after those 3 editions the author decides to go back and rework the text 25 years later to make the heroine less likable and while that version of the text doesn't stick on the original language that become the standard version used for translation in other languages (see Alexandre Dumas fils "La Dame aux Camélias "), or maybe the author was fine with her work but her bitter sister approves of a censored edition to make the characters more likeable after the author dies and then that also becomes the standard edition of the text for decades, and the one that gets international fame before being restored although the damage on the international markets will still linger for another 2 centuries (see Anne Brontë's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall").
And while some of those titles are usually available as digitized copies online as they first appeared in print, if you´re lucky you might even find the manuscript, fair copies or first editions corrected and annotated by the author you're still never guaranteed the "real original first version of a book".
My advice: stick to Oxford World's Classics editions of older books because the do have information about changes done to the text, the Penguin Classics with the black spines are a close second (the Kindle samples of both ARE your friends, do not overlooked them) and then go to the fancy annotated versions which tend to be more expensive. And for newer books, unless you are looking at these more as a collector than a reader, don't overthink it, get the edition you like best, the text should be the same (unless they say "abridged", then it does mean that is a condensed version of the text and that parts of it that don't actually affect the plot have been removed)
So glad that I will be ending my Friday night watching this. Thanks for sharing this with us, Carolyn. Greetings from the Philippines. 🥰
Aw thank you for being so lovely and kind! Sending love from New York to the Philippines 😄
Thanks a lot! Now i know what books i should buy. Have you read meditations by Marcus Auerlius ? I can highly recommend that book.
Madam, I'm from Papua New Guinea, in the pacific, and I am a classic life long reader,. But need DONATOONS of the whole collection to make my own library.
You have a wonderful vast collection of the Penguin Classics. I think I'm an Oxford World Classics girl but I also love the Penguin, too. I'm not sure about Shirley Jackson, are her novels depressing? It seems to me a lot of classics are very sad or very depressing? I have suffered from depression and I'm not sure I want to delve into novels with that content.
Funny that Proust is "Modern Classic" and yet is 100 years old. 2023 Suggestions: The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, Count of Monte Crisco (LOL). For your birthday, I sent a Penguin Black Spine The Grapes of Wrath, but it must have been lost in the mail. If you get to _On the Road_ it should be in 2323, not 2023 - it is that awful!
I love Zola! I suggest starting with 'L'Assommoir', it seems to be most people's favourite, including mine :)💓
Start with Zola with Therese Raquin, 100% you're gonna love it!
I just wanted to say that this is one of the videos that's prompted me to start collecting classics again after 20+ years. You talk so enthusiastically about each of the editions, and it's easy to see how much the authors' works mean to you. Thanks so much for the continued inspiration!
Definitely prioritise ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ by Goethe - it is a masterpiece; incredibly beautiful and poignant.
On the road is gonne make your life feel boring, amazing book
Does your copy of the sorrows of young werther include annotations/notes throughout the chapters?
i wish i could have these kind of collection
I agree 100% on the older penguin vs the current style. I bought all the dickens in the black spines with the ink pictures, and even amongst them I have some that are the older style and some that are the newer style and it drives me crazy.
i didn’t see sometimes a great notion in your collection
It's Alexander Dumas "Fees" the L in 'fils' (son in french) isn't pronounced, just typing this bc i know you like to know the correct pronounciation
Correct, but worth noting that it's not "fees" as in "membership fees" - the "s" on the end really is an "sss" sound, not a "z". Or, if you prefer, "fils" rhymes with "fleece", not "flees" :)
Hi! Don't worry about the length of The Count of Montecristo. I was afraid too but it is really fast paced. Loved it. ❤️
I only read penguin classics, there are so many!
in the west there are such beautiful and high-quality books, now I understand why everyone who moved there complains about high prices in bookstores.
I want to say that The Tale of Genji, to my knowledge, holds the title of first novel. It precedes Don Quixote by about 600 years and Murasaki Shikibu is just great.
do you have the any of them by Toni Morrison
Great video!
Yes, you’re pronouncing Boccaccio and Verga right 👌
I’ve also heard that Don Quijote is considered the first novel, but I think a more proper one for the title is The Tale of Genji by Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, written in the eleventh century
Yes!
When I get on my treadmill I listen to the audiobook the count of Monte Cristo because it is so big so I would rather listen to the audio. That’s how I got through the book
One day i will read all of them
I think ‘Ghosts’ is a pretty good place to start with Ibsen. Terrific play that exhibits his feminism but also a nice dose of 19th century anti-clericalism.
Que mano de plata tiene ome, librazos
Evelina is one of my favourites! Very similar vibes to Jane Austen, definitely think you would enjoy it ❤
Yes Italian Literature!! If you like fantasy-esque type of stories I'd recommend "Invisible Cities" by Calvino. They make us read it in highschool because it's really short and easy. A great book to start :)
Hi! I wanted to ask this for a long time: do you have any books from Hungary? :)
Don Quixote is the Bain of my existence. I read it/parts of it in Spanish , I couldn’t finish it
Bel Ami is fantastic.
You should get and read the bell jar ! It’s my favorite book
The Count of Monte Cristo only took me just over a month to read. If you’re daunted by the size I would recommend reading it along side the audiobook
Please read Thérèse Raquin, best Zola novel to start, it is quiet short… love triangle, shocking ending… yes, go for it!
The penguin blackspines are gorgeous and have good content inside, but I feel like no one talks about the low quality of the covers, the get soo easily wrecked and scratched and ripped, while other editions are much more durable :/
I still love them though
I'm french so I had to read Thérèse Raquin by Zola for school and I really enjoyed it! From what I remember it's a pretty odd book about guilt and the human nature and what probably kickstarted my love for "weird" books.
I as well am intensely passionate about the Penguin collection. Also, I always look to see who's painting is displayed upon the cover, so in that manner we share the same fondness. Thank you for this episode.
Dont be intimidated by Sophocles' plays! I read Antigone and excerpts of the others this year and the texts are really accesible and fairly short! The stories are also wonderfully dramatic and easy-ish to understand, as plays were written for the masses, too, back then! And theyre just finger-lickingly dramatic to read😮💨😮💨
You know, if you talk about Sophocles, or another of the Greek playwrights you can include in your discussion the power of fate, but just try talking about fate and trying to sound reasonable when talking about Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment! They seemed to have learned that to some degree we are watching ourselves perform a puppet-show or a play. In this respect I think maybe the Modernists lose their arguments, which tend to be more theoretical than practical.
anna karenina LOVE!! I love how you went through every book with enthusiasm :) so excited to see more !
Hi, new subscriber. I personally love ❤ “The Woman in White”. A great autumnal book to read. Mystery, romance, danger, and intrigue. Wilkie Collins is a favorite of mine, especially “The Law and the Lady”. Thank you for sharing all your thoughts on books.