1. The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus. 2. Metamorphosis by Ovid. 3. Lysistrata, The Acharnians, The Clouds by Aristophanes. 4. Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes and The Persians by Aeschylus. 5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. 6. The Quest of the Holy Grail by Anonymous. 7. Candide by Voltaire. 8. Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud. 9. The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles. 10. Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch. 11. The Bacchae and other Plays by Euripides. 12. The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes. 13. Beowulf by Michael Alexander . 14. The Egyptian book of the dead. 15. The Symposium by Plato. 16. Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust. 17. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. 18. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 19. The Fairy Queen by Edmund Spenser. 20. The Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft. 21. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 22. The Lady with the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils. 23. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. 24. The Iliad by Homer. 25. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. 26. The Professor by Charlotte Bronte. 27. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. 28. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. 29. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde. 30. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 31. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. 32. The LoveCraft Compendium by H. P. LoveCraft. 33. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. 34. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 35. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and other strange tales by Robert Louis Stevenson. 36. The Great Gatsby by F. Scoot Fitzgerald. 37. Short stories by H. P. LoveCraft. 38. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. 39. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. 40. Dracula by Bram Stoker. 41. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster. 42. Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte. 43. A Tale of two Cities by Charles Dickens. 44. The Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus. 45. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells. 46. Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde. 47. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. 48. The collected Poems of Emily Dickinson. 49. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. 50. Paradise Lost by John Milton. 51. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. 52. The Italian by Ann Radcliffe. 53. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. 54. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire. 55. Four Comedies of Plautus. 56. Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius. 57. The Monk by Matthew Lewis. 58. Medea and other Plays by Euripides. 59. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. 60. The Rise of Rome (books 1 to 5) by Livy. 61. Six Tragedies by Seneca. 62. The Republic and the Laws by Cicero. 63. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 64. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. 65. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. 66. Great Dialogues of Plato. 67. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. 68. Macbeth by William Shakespeare. 69. Aeneid by Virgil (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) 70. Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy. 71. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. 72. Pincher Martin by William Golding. 73. The Cocktail Part by T.S. Eliot. 74. The Collected Poems by T.S. Eliot. 75. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. 76. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 77. Emma by Jane Austen. 78. The works of John Keats. 79. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. 80. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. 81. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 82. King Lear by William Shakespeare. 83. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. 84. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. 86. The Odyssey of Homer (Translated by Richmond Lattimore) 87. The Histories by Polybius. 88. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. 89. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (translated by Anne Carson) 90. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. 91. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata. 92. Early Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. 93. The Crucible by Arthur Miller. 94. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence. 95. On the Road by Jack Kerouac. 96. Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux. 97. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 98. Metamorphosis by Ovid (translated by Rolf Humphries) 99. The Iliad of Homer (translated by Richmond Lattimore) 100. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. 101. Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery. 102. The Road not Taken by Robert Frosts. 103. Selected poems of Ezra Pound. 104. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. 105. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. 106. Selected Poems by W. B. Yeats. 107. Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett. 108. Miscellany Two: A Visit to Grandpa's and other stories and poems by Dylan Thomas. 109. Diaries 1910-1913 by Frank Kafka. 110. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. 111. Selected letters of Oscar Wilde. 112. Moby Dick by Herman Melville. 113. The Inferno of Dante translated by Robert Pinsky. 114. The Complete Poems by Emily Brontë. 115. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. 116. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. 117. Shelley poetry. 118. Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley. 119. Histories by Herodotus.
This was such a fully sensory, soothing experience. I've never seen anyone give such excellent reviews for us book sniffers out there. You are wonderful.
Its so nice to see a UA-camr that thrifts books. I love the used book store and honestly I cant afford to always buy new although who doesnt love a new book!? I love and hate that my books are all a mishmash of new, used, different editions etc. I always love when I find old penguins, those are just as treasured to me. I will say I do hate the tiny writing though.
I love the explanations of the smell hahah The old grandma smell of books is the best thing in the world ❤ it's like freshly mowed grass. It's a smell you always recognize and love
5:08 lol your disapproval of monica stings because that’s how i’ve asked out three different people. normally i put my number in the middle of the book because if they’re going to commit to me, they’re going to have to commit to reading the books i recommend them
I get so excited whenever I see that you've uploaded. School has really been kicking me in the butt and your videos are like a breath of fresh air. I truly cherish every single second of your videos, I literally never want them to end. Thank you for this!!!
Snap - we have the same edition of Emma! I love getting second hand books, to me, there just feels something so special about them! I have a couple of very old editions of books from the 1910's and I wonder how many book shelves they've been on before they got to me! Also... Book smell - there is something so unique about it and the way you described it - man! Perfect! Put it into a candle please! 👌😂
I've recently decided to do my university degree in English literature. Your channel makes me want to overindulge in classics ☕📚 I like your French, I'm from Montréal.
Thanks for making me a fan of vintage Penguin Classics. Everytime I go to a Half Price Books, I hunt for them and I always buy them since they are usually the cheapest priced books in the whole store.
Emmie, can you do a video on learning languages? I’m very interested in beginning French or Italian (eventually Greek and Latin as well) and have no idea where to start!
Oh my god your points on the fonts, spacing and font size - same. Honestly same. I cannot stand tiny writing and close spacing; certain fonts just do not do it for me. I am so so glad to see someone else think similarly because honestly I just thought I was being too picky. But gosh darn, you should be able to be picky about these things! Thanks haha. Loved the video. New sub.
phone number in books is from an old John Kusak and Kate Backinsale movie called Serendipity where 2 strangers leave it up to fate to bring them back together. You should give it a watch. :)
Hi Emma! I'm an art student debating whether I should shift to studying literature. But in the meantime I've began to build my collection further by thrifting! Which I've been able to do after moving to Wales for a bit. Thanks for inspiring me to do so! I've found a good few books from my tbr at second hand shops now. Sadly many are closed due to covid.
I’m not sure how I got into this nook of the internet but all I can say is...somehow this video is so satisfying. Books and unintentional ASMR? What more can one ask for😂
I totally feel you with the font problem. I have a copy of "The Alienist" with a serif font that is not very reader friendly to look and the font can really be impactful for the enjoyment of a book.
Some very stunning covers! Also some classics for me to look out for... I really need to challenge myself and read more classics! I've just received that newer penguin English library edition of Dracula as a birthday gift :)
Would you ever consider doing a video about where to start with he Greeks and classics and all of that stuff? I'd love to learn about that but people only recommend the illiad and the oddisey :/
You have great books all around! Some comments for the sake of conversation: Candide - I love it! It's funny and if you have read Leibniz before, it is even better. The Matter of Britain (King Arthur) - What can I say? A lot of fun. My favorite is Chrétien de Troyes. The Lady of the Camellias - I read it in highschool and it is one of my favorites. The prose is beautiful. The Prince - The beginning of what we consider Political Theory. The writing is far from engaging but it is a necessary addition to the speculum principium genre. Not many people on Booktube seem to love Dr. Moreau, but you do and I appreciate that! So many more things to say, but I will finish with this: I recommend to you two Hawthorne's books: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys and its sequel, which are two retellings of Greek myths (I know you like those) and they are very entertaining. Thanks for the video!
I Being A Calcuttan Boy Has A British Influence And I Love The Vibe You Bring Emma❤️ It Feels Like You're The Girl Whom I See Every Night In My Dreams. In my dreams, she wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together and I visualise her in you❤️. Stay Happy Emma❤️ With Much Love, Rishav❤️
I have spent more time wandering up and down the aisles of Barnes & Noble--while sipping tea, of course--than I care to admit, and I strongly agree with your assessment of their book designs. So much so that I often choose to leave B&N and drive straight to another bookshop to buy any classic I wish to read.
Nice to spot Borges’ complete fictions in the background; he certainly appreciated literary culture. I own most of those with more of an emphasis on poets. That’s a great foundation.
Monica’s out here taking risks😎 Such a calming video, I really appreciate your variety of editions because of thrifting books, mine is a totally mishmash for that same reason!
It’s hard to find contemporary books that I don’t get bored of quickly by it’s language/way of writing. Perhaps I’m not looking hard enough but it’s not wrong to say that the older way of writing is very different to now and much more lovelier.
oh my god i love watching your videos. it doesnt matter i watched all of your bookshelf tours, let me watch basically the same thing. (probably i watched this one before too)
I have The Three Theban plays because I had to read it for drama and I have been so tempted to read the other two. This video kinda makes me wanna do it lol
i am completely enamoured with your videos!! i only discovered you a couple of weeks ago, but I love putting your videos on in the background as i clean and do schoolwork- your whole aura is just so soothing
I have studied Classical Philology in Spain and have been around classic literary masterpieces all my life. For me reading the classics is as normal as eating everyday bread. From the European point of view, only if you read and study the classics are you able to understand the society you live in. And the language you speak, and all the nuances and allusions people constantly make: Cervantes in Spain, raboutinage and marivaudage in France, the divine epic poems from Italian Renaissance, ever present in Italy even in children's puppets... They are quite essential. It is strange to hear you Americans discovering how wonderful the classics are... for us in Europe they are a constant reference, the eternal basic tone that resonates every day. I live very near a Roman Theatre where the classics were represented in Roman times and present times as well. Yearly we celebrate festivals, visit museums, dwellings, tombs...., our streets and squares are full of the names and the statues of our writers. We live in the middle of History, and it's normal for us to read books from centuries ago. I am happy for you, that you enjoy so much the Classics. I would like to add to your list the classics from other non-English speaking countries that you may enjoy so much. A few hints to inspire you : maybe the medieval tales by don Juan Manuel, the renaissance ones in the Heptameron, the adventures of Telemachus, by Fenelon, the Sandokan ones by Emilio Salgari, the slow-paced novels by Theodor Fontane or the passionate vitriolic ones by Eça de Queiroz. I don't know if there exists any English translation of the Spanish novel Belarmino y Apolonio by Perez de Ayala, with its fabulous use of Greek words and references, a real feast (half of the action refers to academic students at university and at the cubicle of Belarmino, a kind of new Socrates), or just invite you to read Cervantes' Don Quijote and the Persiles, of which there are magnificent translation to your language.
Ariosto's Orlando you'll find at penguin classics, Tasso's Jerusalem at oxford classics. It's clear that Tolkien read this, or at least studied Handel's oratoria based on these, for he draws many of his material from these two epics and the norwegian tales by Asbjornsen (published by minnesota university, prologued by Gaiman). You may also read the welsh Mabinogion to see other sources of Tolkien atmosphere, although i don't think he drew any plot from there.
Eça de Queiroz you may also find at Penguin Classics. If you want to read The Maias, first rate piece of art, don't browse nor read any comment: people and publishers use to spoil the plot everywhere...., there are many plots in that novel, first rate ones, please don't let anyone spoil the novel for you, go and read straight ahead without any previous notes, comments nor introductions. It is a masterpiece, you may trust with your eyes closed that you'll plunge into one of the best novels ever.
Keller & Keating in 1993 published the English translation on the medieval tales by don Juan Manuel "The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio". They are written in 14th century Spanish, are wonderful and funny to read, they draw from many oriental tales, popular at that time in the Iberian peninsula (the nasri kingdom of Granada was still flourishing, with all its Persian lifestyle and tastes). Those tales inspired many writers in the following centuries, including Shakespeare. We read them at highschool in Spain for the fun of it, but they're actually a rich source of literary scholarship and research. One may follow the steps of don Juan Manuel at his old castles in Castile and Andalusia, almost as famous as the Cid or don Quijote. Another famous Spanish classic, this time from the baroque era, is Calderon, his play "Life is a Dream" is also available at Penguin Classics, it's so impressive and powerful...
I like your bookshelf especially the poetry editions. And I can see that you have Marge Piercy in your bookshelves. Especially 'He, she, it' is one of my favorite novels by her.
Such an amazing video! Thank you for such entertaining content! Would love to see mini-reviews of classic works or analyses on certain authors. Keep up the good work, much love.
just a thought! depending on the year (i'm assuming monica's copy was from the 70s), maybe they left their phone numbers in books in case they were lost, and someone could contact them? i loved the way you commented on the smells of the books :D AND I just recieved Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the mail this week! I'm so stoked to read them!
On Amazon UK the “Wordsworth classics” are almost always £2.25-£3. I got myself a copy of Mrs Dalloway today for £2.25 instead of the £6.49 for the penguin classic! I really want to collect the clothbound classics because they’re gorgeous! I wish I had decent second hand stores near me - can’t wait to have a look during uni times in London!
I discovered your channel a few days ago, and now everyday before my reading session I watch a video of yours it somehow motivates me so much to read, haha! Love you, stay safe!
For your books with offensive smells, take some dryer sheets between some of the pages, and seal up the book in a small bin. Someone sent me pictures that reeked of cigarette smoke. I put dryer sheets between the pictures and closed up the box. A month later, they didn't stink anymore.
My random thoughts while watching: Most of my classics came from used bookstores, so I understand the smelly randomness of a classics collection. 😂 I have some Arcturus editions! But I'm Canadian, too, so that doesn't answer your question. I have that exact edition of Dracula! Love it! I don't love the Dover Thrift Editions either, but whenever I need to buy a book new I usually reach for those because they're so affordable. Or sometimes when an Amazon order comes really close to qualifying for free shipping, I'll throw a Dover into my cart and consider it a freebie. 😂 I'm reading that exact copy of Le Petit Prince right now! OMG Stop inhaling the ancient dust! 😂
Hi! I'm new to your channel so maybe I've already missed it, but I was wondering if you could do fall classics recommendations? We all know Dracula and Frankenstein, but what are your other favorite classics to read during fall? Anyways your videos are always so cozy and sweet and I've loved watching them
Good stuff! Suggestions: Realistic Drama - Ibsen. _A Doll's House,_ or _Hedda Gabler._ Anton Chekov: _The Cherry Orchard._ Thackeray: _Vanity Fair,_ _The Luck of Barry Lyndon._ How modern do your interests lie? Is Thomas Pynchon considered classical?
I'm glad I found someone else collects the Arcturus editions. I have Jane Eyre. Bleak House, David Copperfield, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, Sleepy Hollow (hardback), Ethan Frome and Other Stories, Far from the Maddening Crowd, Inferno, and The Pickwick Papers. I also two classics in Word Cloud editions. I kind of like the Barnes and Nobles editions with each one being different colors.
The Arcturus editions are also in the US. I buy them from the half priced book store for three dollars each if I can’t find a cheaper, better edition. They’re pretty but I also dislike the inside ngl
this is my comfort video
you get it.
Me too! I watch this video at least once a week 🤍
Yep I’m back again
Same🌿🌿🌿
omg hers and yours are my 2 top channels to go to!!!
No one else gives their opinion on smells and fonts. This is why we're here
If your pages aren't yellow and written in times new Roman size 9 it's not old enough yet
Its only smells
1. The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus.
2. Metamorphosis by Ovid.
3. Lysistrata, The Acharnians, The Clouds by Aristophanes.
4. Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes and The Persians by Aeschylus.
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
6. The Quest of the Holy Grail by Anonymous.
7. Candide by Voltaire.
8. Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud.
9. The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles.
10. Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch.
11. The Bacchae and other Plays by Euripides.
12. The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes.
13. Beowulf by Michael Alexander .
14. The Egyptian book of the dead.
15. The Symposium by Plato.
16. Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust.
17. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
18. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
19. The Fairy Queen by Edmund Spenser.
20. The Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft.
21. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
22. The Lady with the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils.
23. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
24. The Iliad by Homer.
25. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
26. The Professor by Charlotte Bronte.
27. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.
28. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
29. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde.
30. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
31. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.
32. The LoveCraft Compendium by H. P. LoveCraft.
33. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
34. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
35. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and other strange tales by Robert Louis Stevenson.
36. The Great Gatsby by F. Scoot Fitzgerald.
37. Short stories by H. P. LoveCraft.
38. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
39. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
40. Dracula by Bram Stoker.
41. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster.
42. Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte.
43. A Tale of two Cities by Charles Dickens.
44. The Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus.
45. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells.
46. Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde.
47. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
48. The collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.
49. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
50. Paradise Lost by John Milton.
51. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
52. The Italian by Ann Radcliffe.
53. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.
54. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.
55. Four Comedies of Plautus.
56. Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius.
57. The Monk by Matthew Lewis.
58. Medea and other Plays by Euripides.
59. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
60. The Rise of Rome (books 1 to 5) by Livy.
61. Six Tragedies by Seneca.
62. The Republic and the Laws by Cicero.
63. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
64. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
65. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.
66. Great Dialogues of Plato.
67. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.
68. Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
69. Aeneid by Virgil (translated by Robert Fitzgerald)
70. Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
71. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
72. Pincher Martin by William Golding.
73. The Cocktail Part by T.S. Eliot.
74. The Collected Poems by T.S. Eliot.
75. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
76. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
77. Emma by Jane Austen.
78. The works of John Keats.
79. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway.
80. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
81. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
82. King Lear by William Shakespeare.
83. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass.
84. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
86. The Odyssey of Homer (Translated by Richmond Lattimore)
87. The Histories by Polybius.
88. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides.
89. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (translated by Anne Carson)
90. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
91. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata.
92. Early Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
93. The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
94. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
95. On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
96. Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux.
97. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
98. Metamorphosis by Ovid (translated by Rolf Humphries)
99. The Iliad of Homer (translated by Richmond Lattimore)
100. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.
101. Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
102. The Road not Taken by Robert Frosts.
103. Selected poems of Ezra Pound.
104. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
105. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.
106. Selected Poems by W. B. Yeats.
107. Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett.
108. Miscellany Two: A Visit to Grandpa's and other stories and poems by Dylan Thomas.
109. Diaries 1910-1913 by Frank Kafka.
110. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
111. Selected letters of Oscar Wilde.
112. Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
113. The Inferno of Dante translated by Robert Pinsky.
114. The Complete Poems by Emily Brontë.
115. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.
116. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.
117. Shelley poetry.
118. Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
119. Histories by Herodotus.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write these down
underated comment🥺💓
Just thanks
Thanks buddy
It would have taken me years to write this down. Thanks mate.
I like that you mention the text of the books! Text font or size, or spacing of the lines and margins can really impact the reading experience.
me: getting ready to study for school
emmie: posts a video about classics
me: studying can wait i guess
emma: *talking about her classics*
me: *staring at her copy of A Court of Mist and Fury*
We stan a queen with range 🤌🏼
sameeee
“What part of the cover do you want to be green?” “Yes” 😂😂 honestly me though
At 27:59 it's so adorable how you say "because" in a French accent after reading Saint-Exupéry's name
"If I don't like a font that a book is written with ..." Same here. Absolutely. Will I read it nonetheless? Sure. Grudgingly? To be sure.
This was such a fully sensory, soothing experience. I've never seen anyone give such excellent reviews for us book sniffers out there. You are wonderful.
Its so nice to see a UA-camr that thrifts books. I love the used book store and honestly I cant afford to always buy new although who doesnt love a new book!? I love and hate that my books are all a mishmash of new, used, different editions etc. I always love when I find old penguins, those are just as treasured to me. I will say I do hate the tiny writing though.
"Monica, if you're out there..." hahaha I loled
Your sense of smell goes hand in hand with Patrick Süskind's The Perfume 😄
😂
I love the explanations of the smell hahah
The old grandma smell of books is the best thing in the world ❤ it's like freshly mowed grass. It's a smell you always recognize and love
I love watching people's classics collections!!!!!b
When I read Emma by Jane Austen, this is how I imagined her to look like
Voltaire by Candide? 😂😂
baha my brain was really struggling 😅
@@emmiereads That was sweet :D
5:08 lol your disapproval of monica stings because that’s how i’ve asked out three different people. normally i put my number in the middle of the book because if they’re going to commit to me, they’re going to have to commit to reading the books i recommend them
I get so excited whenever I see that you've uploaded. School has really been kicking me in the butt and your videos are like a breath of fresh air. I truly cherish every single second of your videos, I literally never want them to end. Thank you for this!!!
Snap - we have the same edition of Emma! I love getting second hand books, to me, there just feels something so special about them! I have a couple of very old editions of books from the 1910's and I wonder how many book shelves they've been on before they got to me! Also... Book smell - there is something so unique about it and the way you described it - man! Perfect! Put it into a candle please! 👌😂
That The Master and Margarita edition behind you has my favourite cover of all time!
of topic, but i can't seem to take my eyes out of your hair it's literally perfect!
Yeah especially the bangs
emma: inhales book deeply
emma: 😦
I've recently decided to do my university degree in English literature. Your channel makes me want to overindulge in classics ☕📚 I like your French, I'm from Montréal.
For Shakespeare I prefer the Arden editions. They're pretty expensive to own but the university library may have some of them.
They are more expensive than mass-marked editions, but they are well made, and the critical apparatus is top notch.
You inspired me to start reading again! 💞
I'm really curious to see what the font/spacing situation is on those editions! Show us!! :)
J'adore le petit prince, je le lis tous le temps haha. J'aimerais vraiment lire Emma de Jane Austen avant de regarder la version cinématographique
Est-ce que vous êtes française madame?
“Oaky afterbirth” 😂
The Office is life
Thoroughly enjoyed the smell descriptions. 10/10
I LOVE a satisfying thrifty bookshelf tour! You've gained a new subscriber 💖
5 minutes in and already subscribed hahah love many of the books, and love your approach towards them! You’re so eloquent and charismatic!
Thanks for making me a fan of vintage Penguin Classics. Everytime I go to a Half Price Books, I hunt for them and I always buy them since they are usually the cheapest priced books in the whole store.
this. this is the dream.
so so wish to have a collection like that one day 💓
your copy of the wind in the willows is to die for! so cute
Hi from Greece...thanks alot for your good comments on books dear Emma...You have chosen good field...wish you all the best dear...
you inspired me to start reading classics!!! i´ve read 4 this month. thank u
aaah amazing which ones???
* e m m i e * the picture of Dorian grey, the phantom of the opera, the woodlanders and currently reading Jane eyre 🥰🥰
Talking about Fonds and space between the lines : „we’re getting really specific here.“ this is why I’m here. I’m all for the detailed thoughts 🥰
Emmie, can you do a video on learning languages? I’m very interested in beginning French or Italian (eventually Greek and Latin as well) and have no idea where to start!
i love how consistent you are :) I was literally sitting here an hour ago thinking 'when's emmie going to post a new video'.
*”It’s a sweet, oaky afterbirth”*
Me: .. what. 😂
it's a joke from The Office hahahahaha
Thankyou for commenting that so I don't have to 😂😂😂
I'm Greek and I live for the moment English people are pronouncing out Greek names😂 I love your videos❤
This is a looovely collection, and I adore this video. You seem so kind and smart.❤️
Oh my god your points on the fonts, spacing and font size - same. Honestly same. I cannot stand tiny writing and close spacing; certain fonts just do not do it for me. I am so so glad to see someone else think similarly because honestly I just thought I was being too picky. But gosh darn, you should be able to be picky about these things! Thanks haha. Loved the video. New sub.
phone number in books is from an old John Kusak and Kate Backinsale movie called Serendipity where 2 strangers leave it up to fate to bring them back together. You should give it a watch. :)
Hi Emma! I'm an art student debating whether I should shift to studying literature. But in the meantime I've began to build my collection further by thrifting! Which I've been able to do after moving to Wales for a bit. Thanks for inspiring me to do so! I've found a good few books from my tbr at second hand shops now. Sadly many are closed due to covid.
I’m not sure how I got into this nook of the internet but all I can say is...somehow this video is so satisfying. Books and unintentional ASMR? What more can one ask for😂
Have you ever made a video on how you annotate?? Or would you possibly in the future :) i need to start doing more than just circling things haha
I love that you also comment of the font and how comfortable an edition is to read. That’s always so hard to get right when you’re buying online!
I totally feel you with the font problem. I have a copy of "The Alienist" with a serif font that is not very reader friendly to look and the font can really be impactful for the enjoyment of a book.
This is so satisfying. I love thrifted books as well.
Some very stunning covers! Also some classics for me to look out for... I really need to challenge myself and read more classics!
I've just received that newer penguin English library edition of Dracula as a birthday gift :)
Tbh I didn't think I was gonna watch until the end bc my attention span is very bad but you are so funny and entertaining!
Would you ever consider doing a video about where to start with he Greeks and classics and all of that stuff? I'd love to learn about that but people only recommend the illiad and the oddisey :/
You have great books all around!
Some comments for the sake of conversation:
Candide - I love it! It's funny and if you have read Leibniz before, it is even better.
The Matter of Britain (King Arthur) - What can I say? A lot of fun. My favorite is Chrétien de Troyes.
The Lady of the Camellias - I read it in highschool and it is one of my favorites. The prose is beautiful.
The Prince - The beginning of what we consider Political Theory. The writing is far from engaging but it is a necessary addition to the speculum principium genre.
Not many people on Booktube seem to love Dr. Moreau, but you do and I appreciate that!
So many more things to say, but I will finish with this: I recommend to you two Hawthorne's books: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys and its sequel, which are two retellings of Greek myths (I know you like those) and they are very entertaining. Thanks for the video!
Font and spacing are important! I can totally be put off a book if I'm not in the mood to make my eyes work hard to decipher a weird font.
I Being A Calcuttan Boy Has A British Influence And I Love The Vibe You Bring Emma❤️ It Feels Like You're The Girl Whom I See Every Night In My Dreams. In my dreams, she wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together and I visualise her in you❤️. Stay Happy Emma❤️
With Much Love,
Rishav❤️
I adore the Arcturus editions!! They are my favorite classics to collect 😊
A sweet oaky afterbirth?!?! That has got to be the most unique description I have ever heard!
I just read the Bacchae for one of my classes and absolutely loved it!
You live in a beautiful, beautiful place. You are lucky. You make me fall in love with classics. Thank you❤
I have spent more time wandering up and down the aisles of Barnes & Noble--while sipping tea, of course--than I care to admit, and I strongly agree with your assessment of their book designs. So much so that I often choose to leave B&N and drive straight to another bookshop to buy any classic I wish to read.
My favorite are the Arcturus ones. They are just sooo beautiful.
I absolutely love visiting thrift stores/used bookstores and rescuing/ adopting books. This video makes me what to go out and do that asap. ❤
I watch this whenever I feel sad, thanks for making me feel good
Nice to spot Borges’ complete fictions in the background; he certainly appreciated literary culture. I own most of those with more of an emphasis on poets. That’s a great foundation.
Monica’s out here taking risks😎
Such a calming video, I really appreciate your variety of editions because of thrifting books, mine is a totally mishmash for that same reason!
Also I really really would like to thank you for telling us so specifically how the books smell
Is it just me or we really set high standards after being enlighted by classics.
Trust me, we really did.
It’s hard to find contemporary books that I don’t get bored of quickly by it’s language/way of writing. Perhaps I’m not looking hard enough but it’s not wrong to say that the older way of writing is very different to now and much more lovelier.
oh my god i love watching your videos. it doesnt matter i watched all of your bookshelf tours, let me watch basically the same thing. (probably i watched this one before too)
i love your voice so much, its nice and soothing
I have The Three Theban plays because I had to read it for drama and I have been so tempted to read the other two. This video kinda makes me wanna do it lol
i am completely enamoured with your videos!! i only discovered you a couple of weeks ago, but I love putting your videos on in the background as i clean and do schoolwork- your whole aura is just so soothing
I have studied Classical Philology in Spain and have been around classic literary masterpieces all my life. For me reading the classics is as normal as eating everyday bread. From the European point of view, only if you read and study the classics are you able to understand the society you live in. And the language you speak, and all the nuances and allusions people constantly make: Cervantes in Spain, raboutinage and marivaudage in France, the divine epic poems from Italian Renaissance, ever present in Italy even in children's puppets... They are quite essential. It is strange to hear you Americans discovering how wonderful the classics are... for us in Europe they are a constant reference, the eternal basic tone that resonates every day. I live very near a Roman Theatre where the classics were represented in Roman times and present times as well. Yearly we celebrate festivals, visit museums, dwellings, tombs...., our streets and squares are full of the names and the statues of our writers. We live in the middle of History, and it's normal for us to read books from centuries ago.
I am happy for you, that you enjoy so much the Classics. I would like to add to your list the classics from other non-English speaking countries that you may enjoy so much. A few hints to inspire you : maybe the medieval tales by don Juan Manuel, the renaissance ones in the Heptameron, the adventures of Telemachus, by Fenelon, the Sandokan ones by Emilio Salgari, the slow-paced novels by Theodor Fontane or the passionate vitriolic ones by Eça de Queiroz. I don't know if there exists any English translation of the Spanish novel Belarmino y Apolonio by Perez de Ayala, with its fabulous use of Greek words and references, a real feast (half of the action refers to academic students at university and at the cubicle of Belarmino, a kind of new Socrates), or just invite you to read Cervantes' Don Quijote and the Persiles, of which there are magnificent translation to your language.
Yes, there is a translation, by Baumgarten & Berns, 1990, of Belarmino and Apolonio, I guess you would find it at university libraries.
you'll find the Heptameron, Madame de Sevigne and Marivaux in penguin classics, Fenelon's Telemachus by Cambridge press.
Ariosto's Orlando you'll find at penguin classics, Tasso's Jerusalem at oxford classics. It's clear that Tolkien read this, or at least studied Handel's oratoria based on these, for he draws many of his material from these two epics and the norwegian tales by Asbjornsen (published by minnesota university, prologued by Gaiman). You may also read the welsh Mabinogion to see other sources of Tolkien atmosphere, although i don't think he drew any plot from there.
Eça de Queiroz you may also find at Penguin Classics. If you want to read The Maias, first rate piece of art, don't browse nor read any comment: people and publishers use to spoil the plot everywhere...., there are many plots in that novel, first rate ones, please don't let anyone spoil the novel for you, go and read straight ahead without any previous notes, comments nor introductions. It is a masterpiece, you may trust with your eyes closed that you'll plunge into one of the best novels ever.
Keller & Keating in 1993 published the English translation on the medieval tales by don Juan Manuel "The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio". They are written in 14th century Spanish, are wonderful and funny to read, they draw from many oriental tales, popular at that time in the Iberian peninsula (the nasri kingdom of Granada was still flourishing, with all its Persian lifestyle and tastes). Those tales inspired many writers in the following centuries, including Shakespeare. We read them at highschool in Spain for the fun of it, but they're actually a rich source of literary scholarship and research. One may follow the steps of don Juan Manuel at his old castles in Castile and Andalusia, almost as famous as the Cid or don Quijote.
Another famous Spanish classic, this time from the baroque era, is Calderon, his play "Life is a Dream" is also available at Penguin Classics, it's so impressive and powerful...
I like your bookshelf especially the poetry editions. And I can see that you have Marge Piercy in your bookshelves. Especially 'He, she, it' is one of my favorite novels by her.
Such an amazing video! Thank you for such entertaining content! Would love to see mini-reviews of classic works or analyses on certain authors. Keep up the good work, much love.
You have so many great books in your classics collection! I love it! And those collector's editions are gorgeous!
just a thought! depending on the year (i'm assuming monica's copy was from the 70s), maybe they left their phone numbers in books in case they were lost, and someone could contact them?
i loved the way you commented on the smells of the books :D
AND I just recieved Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the mail this week! I'm so stoked to read them!
I love how she tells us what the book smells like
baaabe, your videos are now my comfort space. soo happy i found your channel, you just exhale good vibes ✨✨
A beautifully crafted work indeed!
this is insane! i love seeing how passionate you are about these books and literature :))
I see BORGES IN THE MIDDLE OF HER BOOKS! :D iknow cause is the classic BORGES's pose!
On Amazon UK the “Wordsworth classics” are almost always £2.25-£3. I got myself a copy of Mrs Dalloway today for £2.25 instead of the £6.49 for the penguin classic! I really want to collect the clothbound classics because they’re gorgeous! I wish I had decent second hand stores near me - can’t wait to have a look during uni times in London!
I love small print, makes me feel like there's a lot to the story. But I totally get the annoyance
Yes! Faerie Queen! I took an English college course on this and still have it! I loved what I read.
AH This video is so soothing :) I also love the little descriptors you give for each book, v entertaining.
I discovered your channel a few days ago, and now everyday before my reading session I watch a video of yours it somehow motivates me so much to read, haha! Love you, stay safe!
Your collection is so cozy! Makes me want to browse through your library 🖤
For your books with offensive smells, take some dryer sheets between some of the pages, and seal up the book in a small bin. Someone sent me pictures that reeked of cigarette smoke. I put dryer sheets between the pictures and closed up the box. A month later, they didn't stink anymore.
i come back to this video every once in a while. you are such a sweet soul ❤️
My random thoughts while watching:
Most of my classics came from used bookstores, so I understand the smelly randomness of a classics collection. 😂
I have some Arcturus editions! But I'm Canadian, too, so that doesn't answer your question.
I have that exact edition of Dracula! Love it!
I don't love the Dover Thrift Editions either, but whenever I need to buy a book new I usually reach for those because they're so affordable. Or sometimes when an Amazon order comes really close to qualifying for free shipping, I'll throw a Dover into my cart and consider it a freebie. 😂
I'm reading that exact copy of Le Petit Prince right now!
OMG Stop inhaling the ancient dust! 😂
Hi! I'm new to your channel so maybe I've already missed it, but I was wondering if you could do fall classics recommendations? We all know Dracula and Frankenstein, but what are your other favorite classics to read during fall? Anyways your videos are always so cozy and sweet and I've loved watching them
Good stuff!
Suggestions: Realistic Drama - Ibsen. _A Doll's House,_ or _Hedda Gabler._ Anton Chekov: _The Cherry Orchard._
Thackeray: _Vanity Fair,_ _The Luck of Barry Lyndon._
How modern do your interests lie? Is Thomas Pynchon considered classical?
Voltaire by Candide, wait what?
Much love from France, almost spilled my coffee with that one
I'm glad I found someone else collects the Arcturus editions. I have Jane Eyre. Bleak House, David Copperfield, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, Sleepy Hollow (hardback), Ethan Frome and Other Stories, Far from the Maddening Crowd, Inferno, and The Pickwick Papers. I also two classics in Word Cloud editions. I kind of like the Barnes and Nobles editions with each one being different colors.
Such a phenomenal collection. My mouth is watering now ahaha, I'm going straight to the bookstore now.
The arcturus editions are my white whale I own 4 classics in those editions and I cherish them I love them so muchhhh
i don’t think you know how LOUD i squealed when i saw this notification!!!
The Arcturus editions are also in the US. I buy them from the half priced book store for three dollars each if I can’t find a cheaper, better edition. They’re pretty but I also dislike the inside ngl
you're so cute!🌹🥰🤩😍😁i have the same addiction,i can't stop going to thrift stores for books.they have the coolest classics.