A friend surprised me with this box set some years ago, and it was a great way to introduce me to some authors when I was just starting to get into the classics.

I got this for 43 dollars in Korea! Very cheap for 80 books, and I enjoyed most of them (Im not quite done with all of them lol)

What a great collection! I’ll have to check it out. Though I need to check my library and see how many repeats I would be obtaining if I were to purchase this set. I really need to create my own record book of what I already own…

@librarybooks

Жыл бұрын

Right, that's why I didn't buy it earlier. I thought, "well, I have a lot these already." Now that I have the set though... I kinda love it.

I am sorry if I sound like an idiot but are the stories abridged version?

@librarybooks

8 ай бұрын

They're not abridged at all. They're either chapters pulled out from a longer work (like the chapter from Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle), poems, essays, or whole short stories.

Okay, so what does the box look on the other side? Just plain white?

@librarybooks

9 ай бұрын

Mostly, with a quote from someone about something printed on one side.

If the book take pieces of the larger work, are we going to understand it? Like do we know what’s going on in there😂 I was thinking what to buy little black classic or modern classic.

@librarybooks

Ай бұрын

You can understand it. It might be short stories or other writings that are part of collected writings. There are some selections from nonfiction works, and you don't need to know the whole book to understand a chapter.

If its not a full book and just a part of a big work wont it ruin the complete work for me???

@librarybooks

Жыл бұрын

I don't think so. They're not one chapter in a novel, which might give away some important part. It's more like, one short story from a collection of short stories, an essay from a collection of essays, or a chapter from a nonfiction work (like The Voyage of the Beagle). It could be a chapter from The Canterbury Tales or the Divine Comedy, or some of Aesop's fables. None of those are really spoiled by reading a bit out of context.

@user-vy1dv2yn8g

Жыл бұрын

@@librarybooks ohh, that's great then. Does the same goes for modern classics box?? And thank you so much

@librarybooks

Жыл бұрын

@@user-vy1dv2yn8g No, the Modern series (distinct from the Modern Classics) is different. The material in there is mostly not small pieces of larger works. I did video explaining the differences here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/epqpmJNtqsysdZM.html

Does it has white nights in it ?

@librarybooks

Ай бұрын

Hello! No, it has the first 80 volumes, but White Nights is number 118.

So it's not full book in the "book "?😂

@librarybooks

Жыл бұрын

It's a section of a larger work. It might be a short story (or a few), a section, or a chapter, that's right.

@ykvs

Жыл бұрын

sad as i am planning to buy one.

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