Thrifted Classics Book Haul✨
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- another thrifted classics book haul - i found so many literary classics as well as so many classical studies related works :')
🌜Hi! I'm Emma and I'm a uni student studying literature and classical studies - I make booktube videos, writing vlogs, uni vlogs, and other random things! Feel free to subscribe or come chat with me about books! :) 🌛
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there is nothing better than not knowing what a classic is about and going in blind. best feeling ever
Absolutely. Building your own opinion first on something many people have opinions on is the best way to appreciate them. You can then get into discussion with your own point👌
At age 72, numerous university degrees, I have learned much more through my readings over the years, then I ever did in school
How are you now?❤️
I am being slightly pathetic, but this gives me hope for my future life.
I wholeheartedly agree about going into classics blind. I feel I tend to enjoy them more and have a better experience when I don’t know anything about them when I start reading
Because of your pep talk about big books in the beginning of the video, i am now not afraid to read Les Miserables that has been on my side table for almost a year. 🤣
that is amazing, so glad you're gonna pick it up!!
I think Les Miserables is daunting to a lot of people, me included. I was hoping to get into it during Lockdown but sadly it still taunts me from the bookcase 😃
It's so intresting to hear Emma say "I've never read Dickens" now in 2021. So I guess this is how it started:)
In this video you say you haven't read any Dickens- fast forward to this month, February 2021, when you are starting the first Dickens book of a 4 year Dickens vs. Tolstoy journey! This is why I love watching your older videos :)
Classic books are the best gifts! I'm so envious you got to find so many classics in a thrift shop! Great haul :)
I love finding books at the thrift store! I love Charles Dickens. Tale of Two Cities is probably my favorite.
I've heard that one is people's fave so I'll get around to that one too - maybe a whole week of just reading Dickens aha
If you like Tale of Two Cities and books that are set in that period, I recommend picking up the Scarlet Pimpernel. It's often confused as a French classic, but the author was a Hungarian that lived in England and never considered herself to be French... She possibly considered herself an English author, but never French. The Scarlet Pimpernel is actually the first book in a series about the French Revolution. Highly recommended if you like reading about that period.
@@TiffWaffles Thank you! I will have to look into that one for sure!
A Tale of Two Cities is one of my favorite books of all time ❤️
I love Charles Dickens, a few years ago in a second-hand bookstore I found a New York first edition copy of his whole collection, there's I think like close to 20 books, I'd have to count them again but they adorn my bookshelves and oh gosh I just treasure them so much. That's one thing I love about thrift stores and second-hand book stores are not only can you find classics but many times antiques and first edition copies! So love it! Now, if only I can get the whole collection of Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, and the Bronte Sisters, I'll be happy! :)
I love going to second hand bookshops. You never know the treasures that you can find there. I love finding classics in these books. The city that I lived in while I was going to school had a huge classics section and was divided by nationality. There was a lot of English classics, but you found a lot of French (very rare in my part of Canada that was historically anti-French) and Greek and Roman. I found a lot of the Arthurian classics by going to this shop.
The thing is that there are many college and university students that don't realize that you can go to a secondhand bookshop and buy your books for cheap than what you find at the campus bookshop. Many university students expressed surprise and outrage at the fact that they had to buy an overpriced book when they could have spent money on a used copy that was way below the price that the university wanted. Unfortunately, bookshop owners can't advertise at the schools for their books. But eventually, students find their way to these shops.
Great Expectations is my favourite Dickens. I hope you like it. It's very gothic and sentimental
War and peace! One of my favourite classics😍 The story and the characters are great (especially pierre and andrei), though the "war" parts can be hard to get through. I hope you'll love it as much as I did! I also recommend the BBC 2016 miniseries - actors' Russian is terrible, but the performances are still great and engaging 🥰
I highly recommend picking up Kafka's The Trial before moving on to his diaries! ☺ Loved the haul!!
ooh definitely will start with that one then, thanks girl
Hi! I follow your IG and wanted to say that I love your content. You should also start UA-cam channel. You have a great taste in literature.
@@emmiereads I think you should read 1.The Metamorphosis 2.The Castle 3.The Judgment and other books of Kafka and after that read that book I read most of the Kafka books but my favorite one is the Metamorphosis😍
By the way loved the haul😀👍
And then watch the 1962 movie with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau directed by Orson Welles. It's so well executed, really excellent film.
@@sepehrf8052 letters to mileena - Franz kafka, is also good
That copy of war and peace is gorgeous! I've been avoiding reading mine to be completely honest haha
My copy of War and Peace either was a misprint and was missing paragraphs or was a mistranslation and somebody Russian came in and glued pieces of paper into the book with the correct translation because that copy is a mess and I don't know if it was a misprint or a mistranslation and somebody got angry, lol.
I can't remove the pieces of paper to see, either. They are glued onto the paper and will rip the page if I do. I have a theory that it was a misprint, but my Ukrainian friend said that it sounds like an angry Russian came in and got insulted with the translation and put their own into the book...
@@TiffWaffles Omg I love it!!! That's so awesome!
You remind me of Dakota Johnson
It’s a compliment 😊
i was just going to say the same thing
Exactly
Even her voice is similar
@@repeatorevolve8610 righttt righttt her voice is just like herr
YESSS SHE LOOKS LIKE HER
as a Classical studies undergrad I appreciate this video
I found out your yt channel, and I immediately fell in loved in classic lit. After I finished the books that I'm reading- I will be switching it through classics!
War & Peace is really 1800 pages with a decent Font Size.
I still haven’t read A Midsummer Night’s Dream even though it’s been on my shelf for months. And I LOVE Macbeth. I haven’t read any other Shakespeare play but I still think it’ll always be my favorite. Edit: Oh, I’m currently reading Hamlet
Some people thrift clothes, others thrift books🤩
I read "La Dame aux Camélias" in French... A must read, I loved it!❤
I *LOVE* Charles Dickens. He’s my favorite classic author. I love him so so so much!! I really hope I’ll get to do my masters thesis about him!! If not my PhD but I’ll probably do something else for it... phew that’s still so far away!!😂😂
I also love thrifting (clothes & books)! 90% of my books are thrifted. More thrifted book hauls please 😍
Great thrift haul, Dickens is fantastic! Merchant of Venice is also epic, I come back to think about Shylock's quote on revenge pretty regularly.
wow, those books are in such good condition! now I really want to go thrifting for books :D
I really liked Great Expectations!
Dickens is phenomenal! The best place to start is Great Expectations or David Copperfield. Nobody creates characters like Dickens. A master! My favorite!
It’s truuuuueee classics are always at the thrift store!! 💜💜 wow Kafka’s diary entires is such a cool find!! Great expectations is my favorite dickins can’t wait for you to read it!! 💜💜
Rewatching your old videos while waiting for a new one has become the norm for me ♥
I see the book of Dumas as feminist, it's related to menstruation and clasics rarely talked about something so human and common.
Thank You Emma for showing me Virgil's book. I will look out for a copy. Sounds great!
Tips for reading War and Peace:
1) don’t google up family trees or who is related/married to who - many people suggest this, but I ended up spoiling the whole book 200 pages in
2) try reading it in bigger sections - most people say to read it little by little, but it is way easier to forget it that way
3) try to have a goal in mind when it comes to larger classics - for me, I really wanted to watch the 1956 Audrey Hepburn movie, and it was the main reason I picked the book up in the first place. So, a movie or show can help you achieve your goal of reading such a massive book
Hope this helps x
Bonjour Emma ! I'm French and I love your videos. I've been reading classics books lately and I love following your reading :) Could you make a video on your French classics books ? That could be very interesting ;) Bisous de France
Ah bonjour! une video avec tous mes livres français est une idée fantastique, peut-être une video entièrement en français aussi??
@@emmiereads Tu parles vraiment bien français c'est fantastique ! Une vidéo en Français est une très bonne idée, j'ai hâte de voir ça :)
Dickens is hard but Great Expectations is so well known and not as long as his other books . You will be fine with that book. It's one of the books people recommend for those new to the Classics.
I discovered your channel a few days ago and I'm really enjoying your videos so I thought I should comment.
Your videos are the reverse ASMR to me : a soft way to wake up. When I wake up from a nap I just watch one of your videos and it's just the perfect way yo wake up
Great Ecpectations is the perfect 1st Dickens! It was mine & I’ve heard many people also say so. I read in 7th grade & it turned me into a reader.
I Loved Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. You should start there. It was darkly humorous and easy to read and page after page of action and/or misfortune. 📖
I just recently listened to Lady Windermere’s Fan and it was incredibly delightful and surprisingly funny. It just made me fall in love with Oscar Wilde more. 😭
I tried liking Dickens, but I didn’t as much. He was my assigned author in high school literature class, so I read Oliver Twist and Great Exceptions and didn’t like them. I Sparked Noted the heck out of his books. I thought maybe it was because it had been forced on me, but I tried reading Bleak House on my own and could not, sadly.
Dickens is amazing, I hope you enjoy his works
This is the kind of videos I have been looking for thanks Emma. Interesting.
I'm sure you will love War and Peace as much as Anna Karenina, because Tolstoy created very strong and realistic characters... I also recommend Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy was a great admirer of his :)
I've just ordered a tale of two cities by Charles Dickens x
Ahh... Cicero and Seneca... My two biggest enemies from Latin class 😅 his works are beautiful, but they are sooo hard to translate, at least for an amateur like me
the aeneid is just augustan fan-fic, change my mind (dorian gray was a life-changer for me, hope you enjoy wilde's other stuff too!)
I love your channel Emmie ☺️❤️
I love thrifting to but I do like ebay as well
Great Expectations is awesome, hope you enjoy it!
In 2018 I finished The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (he‘s my fave) and it was the best decision of my life. :D
I also just discovered your channel and instantly subscribed. Keep up the good work. :)
ah I'm so scared to work my whole way through Wilde because I don't ever want his works to end, but so glad you enjoyed it
I've read Great Expectations and it is very accessible and the prose is simple. If you were able to get through Anna Karenina (which I'm currently reading) you will breeze through Great Expectations.
I need a friend like u, people think it’s weird that I like classics
I studied a few of Seamus Heaney's poems for my Irish cultural history class and his writing is so beautiful
i'm so excited to get into them ah
We studied Burial at Thebes as part of my OU Degree in one of the compulsory Modules which covered the Roman and Greek classics.
I love Othello!!
You are definitely not alone in not reading Dickens - I feel like it's just not something I would enjoy - but will look forward to hearing what you think! Macbeth is my favourite Shakespeare play so I hope you enjoy it! I wish the thrift stores over here had as good a selection as yours.
aha I'll let ya know how it goes! and i feel like macbeth could easily become my fav play as well so I'm excited to start it
I swear charles came up to my mind before you showed the book!
Same
I've read both Anna Karenina and War and Peace, loved Anna but sadly I wasn't as fond of War and Peace (maybe a reread will change my opinion) but I hope you have a better reading experience with it. One classic I want to read is The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Gary Watters I actually loved War and Peace and wasn’t a huge fan of Anna Karenina. I wanna reread Anna Karenina to see if may be I missed something.
I love both! And his novellas are also worth it 🙌
I'd love to read Kafka's Diaries. The Trial and The Metamorphosis are both great.
Did you ever read Great Expectations? Liked your video. Props for showing off your Greek: An Intensive Course textbook. It's the one we used when I took greek (just one semester, I ended up taking it pass fail after I got a "see me" instead of a grade on the first exam).
Discovered your videos today ..you are beautiful ...your videos and your voice is soo soothing ...love from India ....
hey there! it's so cool seeing you pick up titles like war and peace as well as cicero & seneca's works. would love to know your opinions on them, especially seneca's plays since i've been eyeing that for a while. glad i found your channel. cheers!
I haven't got into the Iliad , Odyssey or anything else like that. I don't understand them . I have got a gem but just haven't got into them . Will not give up though.
Be sure to read “Resurrection!”
I’m currently reading War & Peace (about 60% in) it has taken me a month because I don’t want to rush it. I want to enjoy it and have time to digest it because is the last Tolstoy read that I have left so I feel sad that my journey with him is ending 🥺. But I’m so excited to hear your thoughts about it! I find that Tolstoy is not very popular on the BookTube community 🙏
Awe don't think of it as your journey with him ending, really it's just beginning! Once you've read all of someone's work, there's nothing to be done but go back and read all of their work again which is sometimes an even better experience
* e m m I e * You’re right, that is so true. I do hope that you enjoy it 🙏🖤
It might be random but I love your talking speed
I love the way you speak
;-; I wish we have vintage bookstores here in my province;-;
I know I'm late to the party, but does anyone know which publisher/edition Emma's copy of Great Expectations is?
'If you are on a budget, you can still read Shakespeare'
Oscar Wilde wrote some beautiful children's tales. I cry at the end of the selfish giant,and the happy Prince is adorable l. The man was pure great. Much maligned and yet so precious.
I have read Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and I loved them. The first Charles Dickens book I read was Great Expectations. I think you'll like it and even if you don't, no problem. Also, I am so glad that you uploaded. I hope you have a nice day and keep being awesome! :)
ah I'll have to let you know my thoughts then, and awe thank you, you as well!
Talking about Leo Tolstoy makes me want to read Anna Karenina again.
do it
Hello, I didn’t catch the title of the book you mentioned when you said you were not afraid of War and Peace anymore because you’ve read _________ which was really really long. I’m really interested to know what that other book is. Was that Anna Karenina? Thank you 😊
I think it was
War and Peace easy to follow? It has like 500 characters
Dickens is very accessible. If you want something to fear...James Joyce is at the top of the list, but it doesn't mean one shouldn't tackle it.
This war and peace is going to be symbolic 🤣
Literally can we be best friends
Great Expectations wasn’t my favorite Dickens book but I really love some of his other books.
her voice is so pretty
Does somebody know who is the author of the Greek book in the shelf?
🙂💕
To think that I knew the Chinese name of the Lady of the Camilles forever but for a moment didn’t recognize that title in English... I’ve only seen the opera but not read the book, so that must be my excuse.
I love these videos ✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧ they are so insightful and great. Great Expectations is an interesting read, I would say. However, I think is not one of his finest works but it has some intriguing passages and characters, like Pip 🌸 Looking forward to hearing your opinions on it 🦉 Macbeth is my favourite play ☠️ Have a good day Emma ❤️
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I like you!
Stop yelling ppl all of our secrets!😅
😕and now imagining she just read summary...