Wow. Just stumbled across your channel. I always enjoy watching videos from English majors cause I end up learning so much. I love classics but since i didn’t study literature in college I feel like there is so much I miss while reading these works. It’s good to get a prospective from a literary student.

@ramtinheraklion2856

3 жыл бұрын

What books do you like? You are very full of emotion

The name is a bit misleading, but Wilkie Collins was a man, he and Dickens were friends and contemporaries.

@therealfirelord3359

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads You could have been thinking of The Woman In Black? Which is also super spooky and revolutionary, more of a modern classic, written by Susan Hill. :)

@Hwaigon

3 жыл бұрын

I went exactly the same like "I thought Collins was a man..."

@kevinrussell1144

Жыл бұрын

@@Hwaigon May be Wilkie just "looked" like a man but really channeled his inner Double X? How can we be sure? He was married with 3 children? That could have been a complete Dodge in a garage full of Chryslers. Let's ask Jessie Jender.

Wuthering heights is one of my favourites too! I’ll definitely have to look into her poetry.

It's so wonderful to find young people interested in the classical authors. I found your channel through Ashleigh at 'A Frolic Through Fiction.' You have a new subscriber.

WOWW i didn't know The Faerie Queen is that giant of a book! We had to read several cantos for class back in uni and now i want to read the whole thing (even if it takes me a year to finish it!) Love this haul so much! 😍😍😍

I just recently bought several Classics and I am interested in getting more into Classics that I never had the opportunity to read as a History major.

Currently on a binge watching your videos. They are so good, no wonder you're one of my favourite comfort KZreadrs

I *clap* love *clap* a *clap* classics *clap* haul *clap* YESSSSSSS *CLAP*!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣😍

I was literally About to order some used classics when I saw your video! Love Crime and Punishment and The Woman in White is on my TBR :)

Hi🤎🤎 new subscriber. Love this haul. Love that they’re thrifted, I love used books. I’m in an early modern Europe course, so the works during the Renaissance have me intrigued!! Hope you enjoy these

A few years ago I started collecting paperbacks by Japanese authors (mostly published by Tuttle from the 80’s/early 90’s). Anyway I’ve read Snow Country and I thought it was great. It’s stark and melancholic and deals with loneliness and isolation in a way that so many Japanese novels do - something that I find very appealing in my fiction :)

I'm currently halfway through Crime and Punishment and I'm enjoying it way more than I thought I would! I started the book thinking it'd go down like a pill but the story and characters are surprisingly very entertaining. And it reads so much like an old man's rant about the popular ideas of his day, the cast of characters are almost caricatures of nihilists and utilitarianism. I'm imagining Dostoevsky cantankerously dictating the entire novel to his wife as she writes away and it makes it even funnier. Also, I read Simon Montefiore's biography of the Romanovs last year which got me super interested in Russian history and literature, I highly recommend it because he goes into depth on how the worship and later contempt of the monarchy influenced Russian writers and culture! Bonus: lots of gossip about affairs

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Ooh I'll definitely check the Romanovs out, I've been reading so many books that somehow have to do with Russian recently so I'll add that one to my list for sure

The Progress Of Poesy is also really nice and is like The Fairy Queen. I wish I could read so many wonderful, long classics like these! It must take hours

Just found the channel, and I find your videos insightful and fun to watch. At one point in this video, you surmised that The Woman in White was written by a woman. Wilkie Collins, the author, is a man (his given name is William Wilkie Collins). Don't despair, The Woman in White and The Moonstone are wonderful works, and I trust you will enjoy Collin's classic novel.

Hi!!!❤️ You have inspired me to read more classics and to start a KZread channel of my own!! My first video is super cringy but I love having an outlet to talk about books and college life! Thank you for making amazing content and being such a genuine youtuber!💕

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh that's so awesome I can't wait to check your channel out! Awe thank you so much

I totally recommend you to read crime and punishment, I read it last winter and without a shadow of doubt, no better time to enjoy such a remarkable book. Salutes from Spain (I love your reviews 😊💕).

I just read some poems from Catullus and Sappho. You should try and read some of them. They're very good :)

YEEEESSSS omg I love everything about this video 😍

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

awe I love everything about you

LOVE your bookhaul, Emmie! I really want to read Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene and am mildly in awe of the fact you have it as a required text for class. Oh joy! I'm so into Gothic fiction as well - I did a whole lit course called Gothic Fiction and Culture which was so fascinating. Ann Radcliffe is great, and I had a laugh at the romp that is A Castle of Otranto :D. I hope you love A Woman in White - it's SO good! And not a slog at all, it's quite fast paced if I remember correctly. You got a beautiful cover edition! I am currently listening to Fydor Dystovsky's "The Idiot" on audible but I really want to pick up Crime and Punishment. Ahh, same I'd like to read Ezra Pound! The copy of Livy's Rise of Rome is amazing - wow!

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to take a whole course about the Gothic for years but it never seems to be offered at my uni - so envious you got to take it!

OMG I’ve been wanting to haul Ann Radcliffe😍

@TiffWaffles

4 жыл бұрын

I have a few of Radcliffe's work and haven't read any of them. I really hope that I can get to her work, but haven't been reading much due to depression. I have decided to pick up some Austen, but I don't know if I like her writing.

loved what you picked upp

Encore une bien intéressante sélection, particulièrement en ce qui concerne la mythologie

This takes me back to my university days, especially Livy's The Rise of Rome. Roman history intrigues me so much. I haven't read all the books you mention...yet...but think you will adore Woman in White. I just bought the last two Collins' books I didn't own. Aren't used book sales/shops the best? In December I bought 38 delicious Classics for about $30 at a sale. Love that. Your delving into translated works is so inspiring. That's one of my goals, too, and am currently reading Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (one of two I bought at said sale).

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Used book stores are seriously the best thing in existence, especially when Canadian book prices are crazy, they're mostly where I get my books from! I'm so intrigued by Woman in White, and ah translated works are always fun, I just wish we talked more about translation itself!

@maslina4567

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads I agree! I'd much rather buy a bagful of books for $30 than one new for the same price. Translation discussions would be such a great idea...wish I knew more about the process.

If you're embracing Victorian gothic, and you haven't yet read it, you might enjoy Christina Rossetti's The Goblin Market and Other Poems.

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

FaeryLaume ooh yes I’ve read Goblin Market and absolutely adored it - definitely need to read the rest of her poems though!

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I love this 🖤 I'm binge watching your videos because they are so great (♡ω♡ ) ~♪ have a good day Emma 🌸

I want to be friends with you. You're so cool!

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That IS pretty funny about Emmie miss-gendering Wilkie. I must have missed it the first time watching the video. I remember having a similar interaction with a radical feminist many years ago who was extolling the virtues and sensitivity of that famous French author-ess, Emily Zola.....what?, oh.....Emile?!? W H A T E V E R!!!!!!!

You're a kid; you can't expect to have already read everything. Don't apologize for not (yet) having read Dostoyevsky. You said you recently (with respect to the time stamp on this video) finished Anna Karenin, by Tolstoy, and you also suggested that Crime and P. is FD's most famous work. Many would reply that the Brothers K is the better novel. Personally I prefer Tolstoy to FD, and have read much of LT's work. AK IS better than War and Peace, but anyone disagreeing with me is free to do so. Some one else also noted that Wilkie C. is a dreaded white male (as are Tolstoy, Dickens, E.M. Forester, FD, Hemingway, and on, and on) rather than female. I'm not sure how Wilkie identified himself, but I don't think it was as "Wilma". PLEASE don't trash us or speak of us with disdain. We are human too. I am also a big fan of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, and Ginny W., and who doesn't appreciate Mary Shelley and(?) JKR, Margaret Atwood, or the huge talent of Stephanie Meyer? I like your enthusiasm, and you clearly have a big following. Congratulations and best of fortune in your studies. Identified as old white guy, but still a fan.