As some of you already know from previous posts, I've begun collecting the Easton Press series of leatherbound, gilt-edged books, The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. For later review/collection purposes, I'm going to list the 100 books, then bold the books I've bought in that edition which I've read (italics for those now owned but not yet read and plain text for books left to be acquired). This is not the same as the number of books from this list that I've read in other editions over the years. If it were, over 90% of the books would be marked as read.
Any of these that you own in the Easton Press edition?
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville
- A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
- A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Candide by Voltaire
- Oedipus The King by Sophocles
- The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo
- The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Sea Wolf by Jack London
- Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Poems of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
- The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Poems of John Keats by John Keats
- On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin (own Franklin Library edition)
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Collected Poems by Robert Frost
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (own Franklin Library edition)
- She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
- Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
- Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- The Iliad by Homer
- Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Aesop's Fables by Aesop
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare
- The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Beowulf
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Necklace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The History of Early Rome by Livy
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
- The Red And The Black by Stendhal
- A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Republic by Plato
- Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Billy Budd by Herman Melville
- The Confessions by St. Augustine
- Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
- The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner
- Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Any of these that you own in the Easton Press edition?
5 comments:
Track down those Dostoevsky's ASAP.
I shall. Probably will cost me $35-50 to acquire them, but they'll be worth it.
I own Huck Finn, Moby Dick and just bought the complete works of Guy de Maupassant from Easton press though not the edition on this list.
Is this top 100 weird to anyone else? Last of the Mochicans? Really? Public domain running rampant...
Larry, as you probably read Cyrillic this point is probably moot, but most academics and literary high brow people exalt Dostoevsky's (and other Russian writers) translations from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. They are newer and thought to be the most definitive in terms of quality of translation and best versions to read.
If you going to collection all 100 on the list then who cares, but if those works are new to you, considering their length and acclaimed quality, you might as well read the best possible rendering into English you can.
Just an FYI.
I own the whole series. Also own their masterpieces of Science Fiction Series, Greatest books of the 20th Century series and the complete Hemingway as well as a few random other books such as some signed Vonnegut editions. I subscribed to these series over 10 years ago. It doesn't seem so expensive when you only have to pay for 2 books a month. It did take several years to aquire them though
There is also a list with the publication years of each title at http://www.leatherboundtreasure.com/greatest_books_ever_written.html
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