Woo-hoo! Christmas comes early to the G.p homestead. Today I received from my dad 10 handsome volumes from Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf. I think he has several more (but not all 51 volumes) and supect that he's just bogarting the Shakespeare et al. Whatever, I'll take it—it being Fielding, Dickens, Thackeray (a lot of Thackeray), Goethe, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and whatever's at the bottom of the box. Also included: everything pops owned by Hemingway, who seems to have found disfavor in the court of Capps Sr. And: a Bible, which my dad's always nudging me to read. I think Vanity Fair, first.
Posted by Kriston at September 13, 2006 6:18 PMOn the bright side: The Bible hath not 20 pages of Suri photos.
Posted by: Tyler Green at September 13, 2006 8:28 PMAre they handy, readable books? I ask because I know they were the predecessors of the "Great Books" which in the Britannica Edition, which are not, really.
Posted by: I don't pay at September 13, 2006 11:40 PMI have all 51 volumes (originally my great-grandfather's set), and they are indeed handy and readable. Not that I've read any of them, but I could.
Posted by: teofilo at September 14, 2006 12:00 AMHandy, readable, and both Suri and Shiloh free.
Posted by: Kriston at September 14, 2006 10:33 AMI inherited a set from my father as well. You can find most of the volumes on Ebay for relatively cheap. Beware of the "Student Edition" (1909-1910?) printed on newsprint paper.
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