How wonderful that you were able to purchase those excellent classics for so little. They all sound like great stories. I've read and enjoyed Little Doritt and I just started reading Dombey and Son. By the way, I enjoy hearing the first paragraph of your books. It wets my appetite for reading them. Happy reading!😊
I just read All's Quiet on the Western Front in April. I loved it. There is so much truth in that book. I took your advice and I read Woman in White this October and it was so much fun, I put Moonstone on my list of books to read.
That is less than the price of a fancy coffee (and a much better purchase). Well done! I confess I'm jealous of access to great used book haunts. I no longer live near any. I'm reading The Mill on the Floss, of course. 😂
So much better than coffee. Though coffee does make a book even more delightful. Hope you are enjoying Mill on the Floss. I'm getting my review ready for it.😃
i haven't read Treasure Island since I was at primary school, but you've convinced me to read it again. Then read it to my grandson. Robert Louis Stevenson really was a wonderful writer of adventures stories. And, of course, many people will be reading Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde for Hallowe'en.
Thank you for your answer. Of course the strange story of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hide is probably the best short story ever written. Love Stevenson, great genius.😊❤
I will try and get that edition of treasure island. Thank you for showing it to me. I read treasure island in class with my 7 grade students, in Portugal, in portuguese. It s always a thrill.❤
What a brilliant find. A complete set of the Nonsuch Dickens goes for thousands of pounds. All these books are going on my TBR list. I regret wasting so much time reading mediocre books in the past that I can barely remember.
All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first books I purchased at a used bookstore, not a rare edition but it was a hardback and the font must have been larger than that edition because it was much larger than that edition, which I promptly defaced with a large, flowerly, girly signature of ownership in 1966, maybe it is still floating around somewhere. I also bought The Old Boys by William Trevor that summer and defaced it as well. Those Dickens editions are lovely, I remember impressing my Grandmother with my reading of Treasure Island, when she asked to see the book I was reading, when I was about twelve. It always makes me laugh when people talk about being from an old family, so is everyone, it happens with an old lady character in Barchester Towers, which I am reading now, Miss Thorne is a great character and is the hostess of a party in which some of the hoi polloi tenants are present. I read Martin Chuzzlewit long ago and remember my teacher's lecture about the satire of America and how Dickens came for the money but did not care for America.
I do love Robert Ingpen’s illustrations especially his wonderful Wind in the Willows, but for Treasure Island the illustrator has to be Newell Wyeth. Check him out.
Hello Tristian: I have learned so much about how to understand reading comprehension from you. And what makes a classic, a classic. I would love to send you a copy of a book I authored. Its title is "A Flicker in the Water"
Discovered your channel a couple of days ago and absolutely LOVE it. Have just subscribed and will always go through 100% of each episode because I adore your approach and insight. So enlightening. Question: I'm a grand-aunt to 2 avid teenage readers (girl 17, boy 10 going on 11), and would like to introduce them to the classics. Could you please create an episode that's more young readers oriented? With which to start, abridged versions or not (I see advantages and disadvantages to both approaches), from a certain nationality or to vary nationalities and approaches, etc. I've been hesitating for a long time as to what to give them. They're both the kind of children that are open-minded, broad readers, although the girl is more into characters that have strong temperaments and a strong hold on reality and life, whereas the boy is more fantasy driven. Thanks!! And congratulations for your channel. It's superb!!
Wow, you hit the jackpot! I have never read Treasure Island. The fact that I recognized so much of it as you were describing it speaks to its influence. I may have to try it. That edition is indeed stunning. I love that there's something written for boys. It's so rare these days. I can't stand the male-bashing of today and the fact that there's hardly anything for boys when it comes to books, movies, and shows. If I hear the term, "strong female character" one more time, I will scream. Plot twist: I'm a woman.
I need to finish Dombey and Son then maybe I'll read Little Dorrit next. I bought my nephews a Treasure Island for their birthday along with an audio book.
That's exactly what I did. DOMBEY and SON was truly a magnificent story. ♥️ My next pick and reading now of Dickens is LITTLE DORRIT. With both following along with audio and book . . . at the same time. Takes time management for sure but so worth it.
I loved it! Just NEVER read "Vril, the Power of the Coming Race." It will take much self-loathing for me to finish it. Reading it is akin to being a contestant on "Fear Factor." - "Let's see if Bob can eat an entire box of cockroaches."
Try and obtain ‘Platerno and I’ by Juan Ramon Jimenez. A Spanish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a wonderful, beautiful, simply written book in an excellent English translation. I thoroughly recommend it.
How wonderful that you were able to purchase those excellent classics for so little. They all sound like great stories. I've read and enjoyed Little Doritt and I just started reading Dombey and Son. By the way, I enjoy hearing the first paragraph of your books. It wets my appetite for reading them. Happy reading!😊
Oh I loved Dombey and Son. The characterisation of Cpt Cuttle and Carker is delightful. Susan Nipper makes me laugh 😃
I just read All's Quiet on the Western Front in April. I loved it. There is so much truth in that book. I took your advice and I read Woman in White this October and it was so much fun, I put Moonstone on my list of books to read.
Thanks for the Treasure Island recommendation!
That is less than the price of a fancy coffee (and a much better purchase). Well done! I confess I'm jealous of access to great used book haunts. I no longer live near any.
I'm reading The Mill on the Floss, of course. 😂
So much better than coffee. Though coffee does make a book even more delightful.
Hope you are enjoying Mill on the Floss. I'm getting my review ready for it.😃
i haven't read Treasure Island since I was at primary school, but you've convinced me to read it again. Then read it to my grandson. Robert Louis Stevenson really was a wonderful writer of adventures stories. And, of course, many people will be reading Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde for Hallowe'en.
I've got my copies of 'A Soldier on the Southern Front' by Emilio Lussu and 'The World and all that it Holds' by Aleksadar Hemon - ready for November.
I am reading the Penguin Book of Witches for the Halloween season.
Thank you for your answer. Of course the strange story of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hide is probably the best short story ever written. Love Stevenson, great genius.😊❤
What a book haul! Robert Ingpen is my favorite! I started my girls on classics with his illustrated The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Tristan, I know you are busy, but perhaps you could offer some kind words for poor Graham Greene sometime?
I will try and get that edition of treasure island. Thank you for showing it to me. I read treasure island in class with my 7 grade students, in Portugal, in portuguese. It s always a thrill.❤
It is a gorgeous edition. And as a book, it is still among my favourites. 😀❤️
What a brilliant find. A complete set of the Nonsuch Dickens goes for thousands of pounds. All these books are going on my TBR list. I regret wasting so much time reading mediocre books in the past that I can barely remember.
You are an amazing storyteller. I love following your videos.
I'm curious with the third book you've mentioned in this video. I'll give it a try. Thanks for this comprehensive recommendation🤗
Reading Ernaux currently and this is a very famous The Years. Love her. Sure, to read Treasure Island for the first time soon.
All sound wonderful. And those Dickens books are divine.
All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first books I purchased at a used bookstore, not a rare edition but it was a hardback and the font must have been larger than that edition because it was much larger than that edition, which I promptly defaced with a large, flowerly, girly signature of ownership in 1966, maybe it is still floating around somewhere. I also bought The Old Boys by William Trevor that summer and defaced it as well. Those Dickens editions are lovely, I remember impressing my Grandmother with my reading of Treasure Island, when she asked to see the book I was reading, when I was about twelve. It always makes me laugh when people talk about being from an old family, so is everyone, it happens with an old lady character in Barchester Towers, which I am reading now, Miss Thorne is a great character and is the hostess of a party in which some of the hoi polloi tenants are present. I read Martin Chuzzlewit long ago and remember my teacher's lecture about the satire of America and how Dickens came for the money but did not care for America.
I do love Robert Ingpen’s illustrations especially his wonderful Wind in the Willows, but for Treasure Island the illustrator has to be Newell Wyeth. Check him out.
Hello Tristian: I have learned so much about how to understand reading comprehension from you. And what makes a classic, a classic. I would love to send you a copy of a book I authored. Its title is "A Flicker in the Water"
Hey Tristan can you talk about Jules verne and other French authors
I’m doing a Halloween read, Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury.
Discovered your channel a couple of days ago and absolutely LOVE it. Have just subscribed and will always go through 100% of each episode because I adore your approach and insight. So enlightening. Question: I'm a grand-aunt to 2 avid teenage readers (girl 17, boy 10 going on 11), and would like to introduce them to the classics. Could you please create an episode that's more young readers oriented? With which to start, abridged versions or not (I see advantages and disadvantages to both approaches), from a certain nationality or to vary nationalities and approaches, etc. I've been hesitating for a long time as to what to give them. They're both the kind of children that are open-minded, broad readers, although the girl is more into characters that have strong temperaments and a strong hold on reality and life, whereas the boy is more fantasy driven. Thanks!! And congratulations for your channel. It's superb!!
Sorry, I meant to write great aunt. ;)
Shoot. I probably couldn't get a bookmark for four pounds at our local used bookstore. Only a slight exaggeration. 😂📙💸
Currently reading East of Eden
Wow, you hit the jackpot! I have never read Treasure Island. The fact that I recognized so much of it as you were describing it speaks to its influence. I may have to try it. That edition is indeed stunning. I love that there's something written for boys. It's so rare these days. I can't stand the male-bashing of today and the fact that there's hardly anything for boys when it comes to books, movies, and shows. If I hear the term, "strong female character" one more time, I will scream. Plot twist: I'm a woman.
I need to finish Dombey and Son then maybe I'll read Little Dorrit next. I bought my nephews a Treasure Island for their birthday along with an audio book.
That's exactly what I did. DOMBEY and SON was truly a magnificent story. ♥️
My next pick and reading now of Dickens is LITTLE DORRIT. With both following along with audio and book . . . at the same time. Takes time management for sure but so worth it.
I have so many books on my shelf to read, but this year I need to stop worrying. And not pick out so many to read within a timeframe.
I am reading Great Ex-Pip-tations.
I loved it! Just NEVER read "Vril, the Power of the Coming Race." It will take much self-loathing for me to finish it. Reading it is akin to being a contestant on "Fear Factor." - "Let's see if Bob can eat an entire box of cockroaches."
Try and obtain ‘Platerno and I’ by Juan Ramon Jimenez. A Spanish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a wonderful, beautiful, simply written book in an excellent English translation. I thoroughly recommend it.