My Classics Collection | Mini Bookshelf Tour 2020

hello my loves welcome back to another video today i'm bringing you the long awaited classics collection [Music] i have been procrastinating making this video because it just takes so much filming but we're here we're going to do it this video is basically going to act like a mini bookshelf tour but a very specific one in which i show you every single book as part of my classics collection and i did do one like this for my mythology and folklore collection so if you are interested in that i'll leave a link to that down below it does cross over a little bit because i mentioned my ancient classics in that video and i am also going to be starting this video with them because it just fits into both genres pretty nicely so you will see a little bit of an overlap but that's just how it goes so my classics collection i haven't added too much to it recently this was very much built like four or five years ago definitely before i started university because that was when i was a really avid reader of classics and most of the classics on these shelves i have actually read but i haven't added any new ones or at least not too many new ones for the past few years because while i've been at university and having to study classics i've not really wanted to pick them up off my own accord so this is pretty much how my collection has looked for years besides the ancient classics which i gained within the last like three years or so as i've been studying that more often otherwise it has looked pretty much the same for the last few years now so i will be talking through each and every one of my classics on my shelves the specific editions and things like that i do tend to have a lot that are within the same sort of editions so you'll see that right at the beginning when i do an overview of the classics so without further ado let's just jump right in so to kick start this video this is an overview of my classics collection as you can see it spans across two shelves and we have a lot of the same kind of additions some of my favorites are the penguin black spines also the oxford classics and the penguin english library collection but i do have some random ones as well and one thing i will say is that my classics i usually buy them either secondhand or for really cheap somewhere so most of these while there are a lot of books it probably didn't cost all that much to collect them all because most of them were about 20p at most even the cloth bounds i managed to get in a deal all of them for 10 pounds so really quite inexpensive way to collect classics so as i said in the introduction we are going to start with the ancient classics and i am going to go through these as quick as i can because i have already covered them in the mythology and folklore collection video so the first ones i have are of course the odyssey by homer this is the emily wilson translation and one of my favorite ones it's this beautiful hardback it really is one of my favorite books within my collection and this book just means a lot to me i have written dissertations on this essays it's just something that i've studied a lot underneath the hardcover jacket we have this beautiful embossed owl and i just think it's a really nice tiny detail inside and the cover itself is gorgeous too with this gold foiling but i do actually also have a paperback edition which is ruined if you have a look at this the bottom has peeled off the spine is beyond broken and this is annotated a lot because this is the edition i used for my dissertation so this is just covered in so many annotations and notes and all these different things because this was just thrown in every single bag for a good few months and it really did end up ruined which is what i knew was going to happen and that is exactly why i bought another edition i do also have a penguin black spine edition which this version is translated into a novel format which is interesting because this is written as an epic poem but this is actually the first edition i had in the edition that got me into reading ancient classics because i find poetry difficult to read so if i had to read a 400 page version i think it would have intimidated me so i read a novelized version of it continuing on with homer i do also have the iliad by homer and again this is in the penguin black spine editions i really love the cover of this one i think the illustration of the painting on the front is just beautiful and this is actually the very first ancient classic i read so i'm very very fond of it and then continuing on with homer i do also have two editions of the homeric hymns so i do have this penguin black spine edition again which is very vibrant and then i do also have this oxford world classic edition 2 which again i love the illustrations on these i think the oxford world classics are my favorite editions when it comes to ancient classics there's just something about them that really pulls me in and i love them and i have read this one too i do find it interesting seeing how the covers compare and what each publisher decided to go for when it comes to the books so continuing on with books that i have multiple editions of i do also have theogony and works in days by hesiod this one again is the oxford world classic edition and this is the one that i read and then i also have the poems of hesiod which also includes the shield of heracles and this one was gifted to me and it's translated by barry p powell it has maps and stuff inside i haven't properly read this one although i do want to to see how it compares we also have some random things like family trees in there to show the heritage and it's just really interesting this one seems to have a lot more content inside compared to the oxford world classics so i'm very intrigued to see what it's like when i get around to reading this version i then also have two editions of the buckeye by euripides again i have an oxford world classic edition this is a very common theme when it comes to my ancient classics i haven't actually read this one yet so i am really intrigued to do so we have multiple stories inside and i do also have this second hand edition which is really old but it also has different stories inside it so one reason why i have multiple editions of some of them are because they do include different stories within the collections there's no rhyme or reason towards what players are included within each collection so i do end up having multiple editions of certain plays not only for the translation but also because the collection itself has different players within them so that's just what ends up happening i do also have this random book of six greek tragedies which has a random bunch within so some of these again i do have doubles off mainly the euripides ones i again got the second hand somebody gave this to me and i wasn't really going to pass it up this one is annotated inside and i think four out of the six players that listed on the front i don't have in other collections so that's the reason why i accepted it from a friend so moving on to some of the penguin editions i have of ancient classics one of them is lysistrata and other players by aristophanes i haven't read this one yet but i am really intrigued to because i don't really know too much about the story itself or any of the stories within this collection actually so this is definitely one that i'm going to get to sometime soon i then also have a lecture under the plays by sophocles with this rather interesting stone feature on the front the three thieben plays antigone edapista king and oedipus of columnar surprise sophocles i read this one last year i think and i really really enjoyed it so i would highly recommend it medea and the players by euripides which i do actually have another edition of i forgot that at first so you do see me go and grab the oxford world classic edition in a second which i'm currently reading actually i've been currently reading it for a while but as you will see in the oxford edition i have multiple post-it notes because i did start reading it and i have put it on pause for now but it is definitely one that i want to return to because i really enjoyed the first play within it i then also have the aurastaya by skyless which i love the cover on this one it's really eye-catching i feel and then we have the rest of my oxford world classic editions so we have the trojan women and other players by euripides orestes and other players by euripides with a lot of anguish on the cover jason and the golden fleece otherwise known as the argonautica by a polonius of words deafness in chloe by longest translated by ronald mccall i actually read this one really recently so i'll leave a link to my november wrap up down below if you want to see my thoughts on that one we also have the constellation myths which i just think sounds so interesting and also the library of greek mythology translated by robin hard written by apollodorus one which you might have seen recently if you've been watching my channel at all is this huge bind up of collected ancient greek novels edited by bp reading this one is huge it's the width of my hand it's over 900 pages and i had to read this one for university because i've recently been studying the ancient greek novels so this one does have many many stories inside as you can see from the contents page we have things like kyries and calera and ephesian tail daphnis and chloe which is the edition that i read recently and also quite a few different fragments and things like that inside as well i haven't read the entirety of this but i have read most of it which definitely feels like quite the accomplishment moving on to some roman texts i do also have of its metamorphosis which is translated by a.d melville this one seems to be an older version of an oxford world classic it looks slightly different to the rest of them but it does still fit in pretty well i also have virgils and eared which i haven't read yet but i do really want to and also the rise of rome by livy books one to five translated by tj luce this cover just makes me laugh every single time he's just such a funny looking wolf so then we'll move on to what i'm going to call my random classics because these are all just random editions there's no rhyme or reason to them the first ones being the penguin little black classics so to go through these quickly i have stancliff's hotel by charlotte bronte the night is darkening around me by emily bronte the beautiful cassandra by jane austen the telltale heart by edgar allan poe jason and madea by a polonius of words and socrates's defense by plato on the complete opposite scale we then go to this huge book which is the second edition of the anthology of romanticism which i got for university last year and it was really really helpful it broke my spine i think any literature university student will relate to that because these are quite popular when it comes to studying literature and it was really helpful as you can see i've got post-it notes in it from the poetry i was studying for an exam and as you can see my edition is really really battered because i got this second hand so i don't mind though it's not something that i'm too fussed about i then also have the complete works of william shakespeare which again is huge this is the collins edition and honestly i find this cover kind of creepy because even when it's on the shelf there's just one eye of shakespeare staring into my soul but this did prove to be quite helpful because i did have a module solely dedicated to shakespeare and no matter what level of study and literature you're at you will probably come across shakespeare so it was just a thing that i decided to get when i saw it second hand i think it was about two pounds so i figured i might as well next up we have mole flanders by daniel defoe this penguin classics edition i don't know what edition it is but it's a really old one as you can see from the spine it's completely obliterated and this is a tiny one but you can tell just vaguely from the colour of the pages that this is quite an old book and again this is covered in annotations from university then we have the woman in black by susan hill this is the longman printed classics edition i don't love this edition because it's one of those which just you can tell was cheap to make but it's the one that i ended up with years ago and i don't love the story enough to go out and buy another edition so this is the one that i have i then have this strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde by robert louis stevenson including other stories as well there's quite a few different stories within this collection i'm not sure what edition this is i haven't seen it anywhere really but again this is one that i have studied before so it's covered in annotations i do find the cover quite interesting though i can't ever decide whether i actually like it or not but it's interesting to say the least i then have this sisterhood edition of little women by louisa may alcott there's quite a few of these as you can see on the inside flap there is a whole collection of them all of these editions have an introduction as to how these stories contributed to things like feminism and it's a really interesting concept i really like them i think that the covers are quite quirky i won't say they're my favorites but they do definitely catch the eye at least i then have the crime masterworks edition of the murders in the rue morgue by edgar allan poe this is one which i have no idea where this came from i think it must have been my mum's or something that i've just inherited because i have not bought this book i don't know where it came from but we do have a few different stories in here and it is something that i would like to read at some point because i have read a few other short stories by edgar allen poe and really enjoyed them we then have the wordsworth classics this one is withering heights by emily bronte these classics every young literature student will know them if you're in the uk because these only cost two pound and these are some of the first classics i got so i do also have jane eyre by charlotte bronte and tess of the derbyvilles by thomas hardy i then have this really bizarre edition of frankenstein by mary shelley i don't love it but the publisher sent it me and i think this is part of the originals series so they did reprint quite a few classics as you can see from the inside within these editions and again i'm not quite sure what i think of this one mainly because the sprayed edges are so brightly yellow but like the slime tinted yellow it's it's a strange edition but it's different i then also have fierce walls and faithful loves which includes the first few books of the fairy queen by edmund spencer this one i got for university i love the cover of it again it's covered in annotations and i actually really enjoyed this one i don't know whether i would read the full thing though because it's long really really long next up we have a book that i know absolutely nothing about but i got it because of the edition this is one of the original penguin classics editions this is what they used to look like this iconic orange that their logo is and that they're known for so this book is defy the foul fiend by john collier and you can see how old this book is this is definitely one of those books which is almost ready to fall apart but it is a very valued thing in my collection because i just love seeing books this old somebody wrote inside this once upon a time and it just baffles me thinking that this book is older than i am and as you can see from the inside this was published in 1934 which is how long this book has been in existence which is baffling we also have this really random edition of pride and prejudice by jane austen and i'm sure you will have noticed by now i do have multiple editions of some of the more popular things such as jane austen and the brontes but that's the recurring thing you'll see it happen more throughout this video i don't know what edition this is it does say inside the great writers library so i presume that's it but again this is one which because i've never seen an edition like it before i just wanted to have it and inside there's actually quite a lot of illustrations which is really surprising i always forget that's a part of this we do have this illustration of jane austen herself inside and yeah it's just really interesting you can tell that it's an old book because of the way that it's bound and so i decided to add it to my collection next up we have the passion of new eve by angela carter which is one of the weirdest stories i've ever read this is the virago classics edition i had never heard of it before having to read at uni and again covered in annotations you can tell which books of mine i use for university but yes definitely a strange read i will say that much i then also have the bloody chamber and other stories in the vintage edition also by angela carter this one is very well known and if you do study literature at all then it's very likely that you will come across this one i then also have the vintage edition of mrs delaway by virginia woolf i actually really like discovering how simple it is i have read this one although i remember very little about it so it's probably due a reread and then again with the vintage editions i also have the great gatsby by f scott fitzgerald all of the vintage editions have this bright red spine which is very distinctive and i again really like the cover of this one i also have this book which is one of my favorite editions that penguin have ever done these are the pocket penguins and they quite literally do fit in your pocket even though this one is one of the chunkier ones but this is the call of cthulhu by h.p lovecraft and a whole bunch of other stories i did start this one i actually still have a bookmark in here which probably needs taken out but i started reading this years and years ago really enjoyed it when i did but for some reason i just put it back down and never continued so i do need to get back on that at some point another random one is the importance of being earnest by oscar wilde this is tiny probably the tiniest classic i have because it is a play and it is just by itself so it is a tiny tiny edition it is the dover thrift edition which i've never heard of before and i can't actually remember where this came from so that's fun one which i might actually get rid of because i only had this for university last year is a christian turned turk by robert dayborne i could not tell you anything about this even though i studied it i just did not have any interest and then i do also have a modern classic which is jean reese's wide sargasso sea which is a kind of retelling or alternative retelling to jane eyre and i really want to read this one i haven't yet but i do think it would be a really interesting take on jane eyre and jane eyre is one of my favorite classics so i would love to see it so then we have my small collection of oxford world classics that are on my ancient classics first up we have the phantom of the opera by gaston laro larue i don't know how you pronounce that one i apologize we also have the castle of a tranter by horace walpole south sea tales by robert louis stevenson dr faustus i think is how you pronounce it under the plays by christopher marlowe a sicilian romance by anne radcliffe and the female curity by charlotte lennox i then also have this small collection of modern classics which i really really love although it does annoy me that they've now changed the spines to this like pale mint green color rather than white because now they just don't match so first up i have don't look now and other stories by daphne du maurier coming up for air by george orwell 1984 also by george orwell lolita by vladimir nabokov and the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson which is a fairly recent addition to the collection before moving on to the penguin black spine editions i did also come across this one which is the crucible by arthur miller which is one of my favorite plays it's about the selling witch trials basically and i really enjoyed it so my penguin classics are by far my largest collection these are the ones i've always loved and so i do have a lot of them as you can see some of them are pretty roughed up around the edges but that is because i do buy a lot of them secondhand so yeah i do have a lot of them i struggle to fit them on screen but to go through them one by one at first up we have a doll's house and other players by henrik ibsen this is one of the earliest classics i bought for my studies because i read this one at a level and there are a few different players within this one i didn't love this one but i decided to keep it anyway for some reason i then also have therese rocco by emily zola i think is the closest i would be able to pronounce it i apologize to all the french frogs out there don quixote by cervantes which i did start reading and i got about 200 pages in and then just gave up next up we have les miserables by victor hugo which i did start reading i only got 100 pages in as you can see all of my tabs are still in there i think i split this up into 50 pages per time but i do intend to come back to this at some point we then have madame bovary by gustaf lebear mary barton by elizabeth gaskill lady chatterley's lover by d h lawrence the monk by matthew lewis a christmas carol under the christmas writings by charles dickens oliver twist by charles dickens which is very battered hard times also by charles dickens i don't know why my dickens books are the ones that are the most battered but here we are the turn of the screw by henry james which is probably one of my favorite classics i love this one a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare honestly don't know why i still have this considering i have the full collection but oh well i do also have othello by william shakespeare j by charlotte bronte and aristotle's poetics so then we move on to my penguin english library editions which is some of the most distinctive editions because of the orange stripe spines and i absolutely adore them these are some of my favorite editions so i do have a few of them first up we have the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde the woman in white by wilkie collins which i think is really good but it is quite a long classic at 800 pages the tenant of wildfell hall by anne bronte dracula by bran stoker which i'm ashamed to say i have not yet read alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll where angels fear to tread by e.m foster a room with a view by ian foster howard's end also by ian foster another edition of frankenstein by mary shelley and another edition of jane eyre by charlotte bronte on to the final group of books i've basically categorized these as pretty editions so we have the virago edition of rebecca by daphne de maurier which is just beautiful i love how intricate this design is we also have this different take on the penguin black spine classics with a shakespeare inspired collection of all of his sonnets so this one i actually got from stratford-upon-avon from shakespeare's birthplace in 2018 as you can see from the note i've put inside and this is one of the additions that you can only get there so i decided to pick it up and add to my collection i then have these beautiful christmas classics which i just absolutely adore these are very recent editions and in each of these you have different well-known authors such as louisa melka and charles dickens so this one is a timeless christmas and inside the writing is quite big actually i can imagine these being pretty quick to read and i will be reading some myself over december we then also have a vintage christmas which has more louisiana male cop charles dickens ellen montgomery mark twain more and also a classic christmas which has more of the same also so much hands christian anderson in there as well so i just think these are really beautiful christmas books and then we have my cloth bound classics all of which besides the charlotte bronte one i got for ten pound like all of them for ten pound which is just baffling so to go through all of the jane austen ones all of which i have read besides this collection of short stories called love and friendship and other youthful writings and yes friendship is meant to be spelt that way continuing with jane austen we also have sense and sensibility emma mansfield park pride and prejudice northanger abbey which has the design coming off the front because i've read it a few times now and persuasion as the last of the jane austen's but then we do also have villette by charlotte bronte so that is it for my classics collection that was a long ride but i do hope you enjoyed looking through it like i said at the beginning i have actually read most of these and i don't tend to keep the ones i dislike so i feel like this collection is a pretty good representation of the kind of classics i do like to read if anybody was wondering so with that being said i am going to end this video here do let me know if you spotted any favorites or if there's any particular edition that you love there's so many beautiful editions of classics i personally really love the chilton classics but i think all of the ones that are published in those editions i already have so i don't really need more but they are beautiful book covers so it's always worth checking out if you are interested but i will stop babbling now i hope you enjoyed this video if you did then remember to leave a like and a comment let me know that you're here if you're not subscribed already then please consider doing so down the description box i'll leave a link to the previous video that i've done like this all of my social media and other bookish stuff as well so be sure to check it out if you haven't already but for now i hope you're having a lovely day and i see you next time with a new video bye [Music]

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Published: Sun Dec 20 2020