Penguin Clothbound Classic Collection (67 Books?!) 2018

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  • Here is my Penguin Clothbound Classics collection as it stands in early December 2018! I've also included my philosophy classics & poetry classics for good measure so... yeah. It's like 67 books. At least the collection is almost complete!! :) Let me know which one of these is your fav
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    Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
    Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
    Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
    The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
    War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
    Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
    Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
    Dracula by Bram Stoker
    Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 1, Volume 2, & Volume 3) by Marcel Proust
    The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
    Bleak House by Charles Dickens
    Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
    Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
    Middlemarch by George Eliot
    Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
    Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    Love and Friendship by Jane Austen
    Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
    Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
    A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzergerald
    The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
    The Travels by Marco Polo
    Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
    Treasure Island by Robert Lous Stevenson
    The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
    The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
    Hard Time by Charles Dickens
    Persuasion by Jane Austen
    The Pearl by John Steinbeck
    Emma by Jane Austen
    Villette by Charlotte Bronte
    The Odyssey by Homer
    Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
    Metamorphoses by Ovid
    A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Paradise Lost by John Milton
    The Iliad by Homer
    The Sonnets & A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare
    Orlando by Virginia Woolf
    Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence
    A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
    Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
    Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
    The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
    The Confessions by St. Augustine
    A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
    Fear & Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
    The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
    Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
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  • @nanjappa42
    @nanjappa42 5 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    It is a nice collection to look at. The cloth cover is really well designed. But appearances can be deceptive. Though called Clothbound, the volumes are simply glued, and not signature -stitched. The result is that the volumes cannot be opened fully, they do not lie flat on the desk when opened. Compare these volumes with Everyman''s Library volumes and you will know the difference. The binding is not durable. When we spend a fortune on these books, we expect better quality. All that glitters is not gold.

    • @holistic7980
      @holistic7980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I agree. I had the some years ago and the design peals off and it doesn't feel nice in your hand. The paper is stiff. I would not buy any. But I think it's nice if penguin send you free copies. I think Everyman's library make beautiful books. The paper and quality is great.

    • @MillieBee24
      @MillieBee24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yes the designs rub off!! So frustrating

    • @TwoMiceOnMyBookshelf
      @TwoMiceOnMyBookshelf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      R Nanjappa Ah didn’t know this. These are deal breakers for sure. My understanding is that these days sewn binding can be done at a reasonably low price so this is disappointing. The only glue binding I will tolerate is for paperbacks.

    • @cyana5867
      @cyana5867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What company would you suggest for a quality binding of classics?

    • @MyAliasAndNoOneElses
      @MyAliasAndNoOneElses 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@cyana5867 It's probably a bit late, but as no one answered I'm just gonna do it! My personal favourite are the Macmillan Collectors Library. They have great binding and quality (also notes and introductions!), but they are very small books and I heard that the font can get tiny with bigger novels. I also heard very good things about the Everymans Library, but those are really expensive so I don't own any. Penguin Blackspines are often good, but they can really vary between different books, f.e. the font, cover or general quality can get really different. But they are pretty OK in price and many people love Penguins books!

  • @hannahwebster5606
    @hannahwebster5606 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Its interesting how books used to be a real status symbol then become more mass-market as literacy levels increased and production costs decreased. Now it feels like there is a real return to books as valuable objects in themselves.

  • @MaryAmongStories
    @MaryAmongStories 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    such a beautiful collection, omg 😍

  • @RossMcgowanMaths
    @RossMcgowanMaths ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I am reading a few classics this year. I have decided that I will buy cheap second hand paperbacks that I can use to annotate and if any particular book really thrills me then I will buy the clothbound edition for my library. Lovely set of books !

  • @littera5114
    @littera5114 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dear Mara, we are two near-fanatic book collectors (and readers, mind) and you have convinced us of collecting as many books from this series as possible. The video is lovely and we have to admit we are a bit envious of you 🤭😏. Hugs from Spain.

  • @aisling8308
    @aisling8308 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a beautiful collection, and the way you've arranged them is so aesthetically pleasing

  • @robertwinslade3104
    @robertwinslade3104 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I just bought The Count of Monte Cristo clothbound classic yesterday and it is the first time I have bought one of these editions and it will be the last. Infact I want to return my copy. I don't mind having books that look somewhat aged and worn, especially if I buy them secondhand, but I am someone who handles books very carefully and once I have bought a book I do my utmost to keep it in the condition it was in when I bought it. This clothbound classic not only arrived damaged due to a barcode sticker on the back which left a VERY noticeable stain and peeled part of the pattern off but the quality of the print on the cover has deteriorated noticeably in less than 24 hours having been hardly handled in that time! All I've done is give it a very quick, careful inspection and put it on my shelf, but when I took my hand off the book, significant patches of the printed pattern came away stuck to my fingers! My hands were clean and dry and I handled the book carefully; why did so much of the pattern seem to stick to my hands more than the book itself?! Supremely dissapointed in this, especially considering the cost

  • @cyanidejack1013
    @cyanidejack1013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    My OCD is battling between color coding and alphabetizing. Can't stand that each author wasn't in the same color range.

  • @fun2kollect262
    @fun2kollect262 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Beautiful books! My favorite book of all time is also Jane Eyre. I first read it at age 11, and with each subsequent read, I found more to love.

  • @KristinMomentsOfSanctuary
    @KristinMomentsOfSanctuary 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love! My favorite book in this collection and my second all time favorite Classic is 20000 leagues under the sea! All so gorgeous

  • @iam_vlo
    @iam_vlo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oh my god! I’m starting to collect these too!!!
    I didn’t know there were so many I’m missing!

  • @kimj8540
    @kimj8540 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely stunning collection. I only have a handful of these, but swoon every time I see your shelves in the background of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much!! I've really enjoyed building my collection- it makes my space happier for me :)

  • @slayyyterstan
    @slayyyterstan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This makes my heart 💓 skip a beat, it is stunning 😍

  • @alexiaramirez4928
    @alexiaramirez4928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    That edition of The Hounds of the Baskervilles is the prettiest book I have ever seen, I don't want it, I need it.

  • @Books_and_Budget
    @Books_and_Budget 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I cracked up at the Don Quixote move. It looks so much better now!

  • @a.g.2790
    @a.g.2790 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow!!!💕💗💕 just gorgeous books & how you organized them. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Have an amazing 2020 reading books some great books!😀

  • @MeSimoneI
    @MeSimoneI 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love these editions so thank you for a collection video!!

  • @mollygodlewski
    @mollygodlewski 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m so glad I found your channel! I love these editions so much. I have two so far.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Every journey starts with a single step

  • @felixtorres2482
    @felixtorres2482 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ah, I'm so jealous I would hope to one day have a library like your own. I
    cant even imagine how expensive those books were. One day, one day :)

  • @Kiki-oo3bw
    @Kiki-oo3bw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Your shelves look so good with these editions! I have 4 so far, Great Expectations, The Picture of Dorian grey, Dracula and Little Women.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you!! I hope you enjoy collecting them - I've enjoyed growing my collection over the last 2 years

  • @Lu.G.
    @Lu.G. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Ugh...talk about book envy, lol! I only have 4 of these gorgeous books so far and I look forward to adding more to my shelves. My favorite is probably Frankenstein, which I just read for the first time in September. Oh my gosh, I loved it *so* much.

  • @alifeworthfinding2838
    @alifeworthfinding2838 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Awesome collection !!! I just subbed and would like to see more in depth analysis on meanings and themes on some of the classics . I think you'd be good at it .

  • @thelittlebookshop1735
    @thelittlebookshop1735 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Ahh gorgeous collection!
    Yes, they are expensive. I have two atm.

  • @searchanddiscover
    @searchanddiscover 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yay!! Been hoping for this!!!!!!

  • @magdalenaholt2967
    @magdalenaholt2967 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also the Don Quijote is stunning. Beautiful artwork squared.

  • @MoonlightKhan
    @MoonlightKhan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this video! Looks beautiful 🤩

  • @MrThomtree
    @MrThomtree 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I am glad you love these books, and boy do they look amazing all on the shelves but I myself find they are not very high quality, so will usually only pick these up if I can’t get other editions. The pages are glued and run the risk of falling out if you crack the spine and the block pattern rubs off on your fingers just from holding the book to read. I much prefer the quality of the Everyman’s Library series for classics. Sewn pages and the covers don’t get ruined. But I’m glad they bring you delight.

    • @Astyanaz
      @Astyanaz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      While I haven't seen any of these I also enjoy Everyman's Library.

    • @TwoMiceOnMyBookshelf
      @TwoMiceOnMyBookshelf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everyman’s Library is the best bound and produced for its price range. At least this is what I think. It also has some of the best introduction sections and of course those time lines. I’ve been meaning to share last year why Everyman’s Library is one of my favourites, if not my favourite edition for books. But life gets in the way. So I am glad to hear today that I am not alone in this 😁 It is no longer independently published though. Random House bought it I think? They did try to sneak glue binding apparently in 2008 (?) and there was an uproar. Rightly so!

  • @ralig4879
    @ralig4879 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank You for this video! Love the books

  • @Elix90
    @Elix90 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the video. (Hope you'll do an updated one once the collection is complete!). The most beautiful of the bunch to me was the Odessey. My oh my, what a pretty book! I am also very partial to Alice in Wonderland in terms of the aestethic matching the content.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love the Odyssey, too! So lovely with the line work

  • @nicolasmassa8146
    @nicolasmassa8146 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    that library its all i want in my life. Awesome!

  • @POlivares23
    @POlivares23 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful collection! I especially loved The Great Gatsby cover design. 🙂

  • @spinstercatlady
    @spinstercatlady 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful! I love these (and have a few), but I started out collecting them in the rainbow paperback versions so that's what I've stuck with. My dream is to be able to own a bunch of the Folio Society books one day...droolworthy!

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YES, I'd love that, too... someday, when we are people of leisure & endless disposable funds :)

    • @buchdrache1409
      @buchdrache1409 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yes... The folio books are insanely gorgeous! I dream about them too... one day, hopefully!

  • @nataliewood3095
    @nataliewood3095 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    The most beautiful video 😍

  • @AditiChhawry
    @AditiChhawry 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm so proud of you!

  • @iqrizahayatisariislami9621
    @iqrizahayatisariislami9621 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a beautiful collection 😍😍😍

  • @ashleykieninger2756
    @ashleykieninger2756 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful collection! I very rarely buy cloth bound editions as I like to scribble/highlight/mark up my books, but I still put them on display with gusto. Don’t mind the hundreds of multi-colored tabs sticking out of all of them 🤣
    I just discovered your channel and you definitely have a new subscriber! (Love those glasses too!)

  • @christinelagueux8155
    @christinelagueux8155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow so beautiful books. I wish I could have that.

  • @paraplyen
    @paraplyen 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a beautiful collection. I only own three from this set: Jabberwocky, Anna Karenina and Les Misérables. None of which I've yet read, but Les Misérables is on my tbr this year. I just discovered your channel. Now I'm following you here and on social media. Can't wait to see more.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ooo, yes, Les Miz is one of the last ones I need to get! So beautiful! Glad to have you along for the ride :)

  • @aidaandhrhh
    @aidaandhrhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you're living the dream 😍😍

  • @foxedfolios
    @foxedfolios 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great ‘walkthrough’ - some of those covers are 😍. I only have four CBCs at the moment: Don Quixote, The Day of the Triffids, Jabberwocky and The Woman in White. Alice’s Adventures in... will be next. One thing I have experienced with them though - and which is DEEPLY annoying (in a wholly middleclassproblems way) is that sometimes the foiling comes off when the price label is removed. I’m near pathological about removing sticky price labels from everything I buy and am irrationally bothered if they leave any residue (MCprobs #2) but damaging the book cover is equally egregious! Get it together Penguin!
    Anyway, enough of my trivialities. Hope Santa brings you some of your outstanding titles. 🎅🎁😊
    (Unrequested $0.02 on the moving of Don Quixote. Shifting that book to the end was a sharp move - looks great in its new place. But somehow I think Little Women now needs to motor on up to the head of the line or before the Iliad! 🙈📚😂 Yep, I’m shutting up and off to mind my own business now - haha! Have a great week.)

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha, yes, Little Women will move back to be with its brown friends once a couple of new editions arrive - so no worries, it is not a permanent home for it!

  • @danecobain
    @danecobain 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Marvellous!

  • @simgingergirl
    @simgingergirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a few Barnes & Noble classics editions. I love them! I have The Scarlet Letter, Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories and A Treasury of Irish Literature (contains full text of The Dead and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man). I mostly rely on others to buy me those as gifts. Haha

  • @tonyleach3061
    @tonyleach3061 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice Collection of Lovely Books!

  • @corajohnston22
    @corajohnston22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have a few cloth bounds and I love them but I’m all about the penguin drop caps, they are my favorite.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those are lovely as well! I hope to get a few more of those

    • @montanasoon4895
      @montanasoon4895 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mine too! Order by author and colour already done for you. 18/26 so far

  • @clariacutajar5592
    @clariacutajar5592 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I picked up Essays and Aphorisms by Schopenhauer on holiday 2 years ago, and the designs were all so beautiful they haven't left my mind since. I am now attempting to slowly gather the full collection.

  • @saraseidel7
    @saraseidel7 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
    I’m also collecting these, but so far I only have 11😊 But I have one I didn’t hear you mention: The Hound of the Baskervilles , it’s sort of light-brown and it’s covered with butterflies. Very nice. I’m sure you could still get it somewhere.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you!! I hope you enjoy building your own collection as much as I've enjoyed mine :). I do have Baskervilles (hopefully I didn't leave it out! :D), and yes!! It is a lovely one-- really like its print

    • @saraseidel7
      @saraseidel7 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bookslikewhoa Oh my God yes of course, I'm sorry, I see now that you absolutely included it! :D Sorry, I missed it the first time! :P

  • @aanagul8787
    @aanagul8787 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great collection.❤️
    Middlemarch @5:25 wanna start with this.

  • @mcl3066
    @mcl3066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think my favourite cover design must be Shelley’s Frankenstein

  • @fms6306
    @fms6306 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks for rekindling (see what I did there - hehe) my interest in the printed word. I've subscribed.

  • @pedroc7643
    @pedroc7643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The Picture of Dorian Gray deserved a better design...

  • @Imaginetheday1967
    @Imaginetheday1967 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These are my favorite classic editions and I've just begun collecting them. (I bought that edition of The Great Gatsby for a friend and it is indeed beautiful!) I really like the edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Very whimsical. I read it for the first time this year and fell in love with it. For pure aesthetics, I love The Picture of Dorian Gray. The silver and black is timeless.
    Where do you purchase yours? Who offers "points"?

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mostly get mine from Amazon & The Book Depository. Between them, I tend to get pretty significantly discounted prices from retail. I have Amazon points that I use

  • @amnakhan5692
    @amnakhan5692 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello! I’m wanting to collect these editions to build up my classics collection but I’ve heard that the pattern on the Clothbound classics starts to fade very quickly and they are overall bad quality. Please let me know if this is correct. I want the books not just to display but read as well. I love the look of them and I want to build up a collection but I’m super worried now seeing people say they are bad quality and fade

  • @magdalenaholt2967
    @magdalenaholt2967 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh....how Suggestive that copy of Homer's Odyssey. I studied classical languages, so all my copies are dog-eared devastated drawn and scribbled-in paperback greek study versions.
    That cover is stunning.
    Homer deserves to be housed so beautifully.

  • @mkraju7384
    @mkraju7384 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does the hardbound edition of victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas contains original illustration

  • @magwen4016
    @magwen4016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    girl I'm jealousssss

  • @Le_Samourai
    @Le_Samourai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Are the larger clothbound classics comfortable to read with, like War and Peace or The Count of Monte Cristo?

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've been reading from my Monte Cristo copy right now without issue :)

    • @Le_Samourai
      @Le_Samourai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bookslikewhoa thanks (。◕‿◕。)

  • @LinhP-ns3su
    @LinhP-ns3su 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video and collection! I would love to get some of them at a certain point. Does the print(?) of the book cover comes off easily, or that's what I've heard?

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've heard that as well, but it's never been a problem for me, so can't say for sure

  • @oswig1768
    @oswig1768 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Might be a good investment in years to come, to be honest. The “best” books are by Folio Society, but I can’t afford one of their books, let alone a collection, so I went down the Clothbound route myself.

  • @TwoMiceOnMyBookshelf
    @TwoMiceOnMyBookshelf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So pretty....!!!!

  • @nathalieaparecida1372
    @nathalieaparecida1372 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Entendi poucas palavras, mas é uma linda coleção.

  • @joannemarkov
    @joannemarkov 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you bought all of these individually, or in sets? I have the Bronte and Austen sets in my Amazon cart, but I’m afraid of the stickers ruining the back, as commentators have pointed out.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I bought the sets where I could (Austen, Bronte, & Dickens) but most you have to get as one offs :/

  • @TrishaGupta_2094
    @TrishaGupta_2094 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello! I have been contemplating buying The Iliad and The Odyssey. Could you please tell me who the translator is? And is the translation in verse? Thank you. Your collection is to die for!

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you enjoyed! Translator = EV Rieu, not in verse

  • @daqiamer
    @daqiamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw that a lot of classics are "edited and notes by".
    What doest it actually mean? Is it meaning that the book's text is different of the original.
    I know that a lot of Penguin ClothBound are edited by someone else that the original writer.
    Have it a way to know how for the edit are and what is it conscited?
    I cannot find any good answer to this question online

  • @tubagusmuhammadyusufrifaiz2331
    @tubagusmuhammadyusufrifaiz2331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How do you keep these collections clean from dust? I just started collecting these editions

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't :D... just kidding, I don't do anything special beyond dusting occasionally

  • @franchiskaakay8290
    @franchiskaakay8290 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How many sonnets are their in the Shakespeare sonnete books? Also can you suggest a hardcover book of ALL of shakespearean sonnets

    • @thomasthompson6378
      @thomasthompson6378 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. They're all collected together with all of the plays in G. B. Harrison's one-volume work.

  • @cjar8989
    @cjar8989 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Would you show what one looks like on the inside? Are they as beautiful on the inside?

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh good call - yeah, the next time I have one in a haul, I'll open it up. I wouldn't say it's beautiful, but I find it very functional in terms of font size, page weight, etc.

  • @ThePusheenicorn868
    @ThePusheenicorn868 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How do you find these are holding up? Have the designs faded or the pages loosened in any? Thank you.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mine have held up quite nicely! No issues with fading, etc. so far

  • @cortiees
    @cortiees 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Totally off topic, where did you get your gorgeous glasses?

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you! I'm actually not totally sure- it was a brand I never heard of from my eye doctor. But I enjoy them!

  • @hehehello3251
    @hehehello3251 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    May you please show us all of the Jane Austen books together

  • @charachoppel3116
    @charachoppel3116 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those books are sooo beautiful. Are they the complete novels or are they like the Reader's Digest books, shortened?

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unabridged - the whole thing! :)

  • @TheTasneemali
    @TheTasneemali 3 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @BeautifullyBookishBethany
    @BeautifullyBookishBethany 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Girl this is crazy!!! They are really stunning though.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is a sickness and a blessing all in one

  • @omensix
    @omensix 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are pretty. But to me they are difficult to read. Bindings are tight and seems to me books don’t lay open easily at all and have to keep them pried open- I’ve avoided these for reading copies/ perhaps they’ve changed since a few years ago. My copies I exchanged- the pages/binding are glued in - and felt like the pages would come out of you tried to open the book flat on a table- if they were sewn bindings they would be worth the price

  • @books_and_ki
    @books_and_ki 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the font like inside these? Is it very small?

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I find it to be a pretty comfortable size- maybe a little smaller than standard but not enough it bothers me?

  • @thomasthompson6378
    @thomasthompson6378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just so you know, the author of Brideshead Revisited is "EVElyn Waugh," not 'EV-e-lyn" Waugh. It became transmogrified to "EV-e-lyn" only after some parents used it as a girl's name. Today, of course, neither formulation of the name is likely to be used for males.

  • @MuslimaMatador
    @MuslimaMatador 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful book shelf, but your color organization needs some revisions. I am tweaking on it!

  • @elizabethmercas7430
    @elizabethmercas7430 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi
    Is The Count of Monte Cristo annotated?

  • @manuelodabashian
    @manuelodabashian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am not wild about these modern designs, in any case it is the book that counts. The only one I really liked was great expectations and bleak house maybe a couple of others. Doubtless lots will criticise me

  • @richarddelanet
    @richarddelanet ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd recommend trading 'The Art of War' for 'The Analects' by Confucius.

  • @wattpadvici7716
    @wattpadvici7716 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are they all clothbound?

  • @buchdrache1409
    @buchdrache1409 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Have you read all of these?

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not all of them (hoping to get through some of them as a part of resolutions this year), but I'd estimate I've read ~60-70% of them at some point

    • @buchdrache1409
      @buchdrache1409 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bookslikewhoa That is incredible! I am jealous of the absolutely lovely experience you must have had, not just reading such incredible stories, but also reading them out of such gorgeous editions! 👍🏽

  • @bmj2829
    @bmj2829 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    May I know the price range of these kind of books?

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Depends, but mine are usually between $12-22

  • @Kaivijs
    @Kaivijs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I collect Penguine Drop Caps, but this really makes me wan't to collect the Classics as well.

    • @bookslikewhoa
      @bookslikewhoa  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Penguin has an abundance of gorgeous editions!

  • @abigailhortencia5901
    @abigailhortencia5901 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome enjoy little woman what is the price for one👌

    • @thomasthompson6378
      @thomasthompson6378 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I believe that book is called "Little Women."

  • @davidthom7127
    @davidthom7127 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think libraries should start to arrange all their books by colour. In fact, take away all the writing on the outside of the books. The author and title of each are just confusing. People can ask the librarian for a red book or a blue book.

  • @storiedworlds6261
    @storiedworlds6261 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never trust someone who shelves their books by color. ;)

  • @KevTheImpaler
    @KevTheImpaler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have quite a number of those clothbound classics myself, but they have not improved my sex-life, and I'm not a better person neither.

  • @frumaatholoid
    @frumaatholoid 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't judge a book by its cover? Especially if it costs an exorbitant amount of money.

  • @saukraya3254
    @saukraya3254 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I do not buy Penguin books.

  • @TheCommentGuy8
    @TheCommentGuy8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hmmm... the communist manifesto?
    Before I go on about what I think about Karl Marx and his book, would you please give me your opinion on it and how much you agree / disagree with it.

    • @hiigghhggg9150
      @hiigghhggg9150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m, like, 100% sure She’s not a communist, lmao. Do you think she would participate in this much consumerism if she was communist? The communist manifesto is an important part of world history, like it or not. And it’s a pretty edition of it.

    • @tiandao8503
      @tiandao8503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You don't have too be a Communist to appreciate Marx's critique of Capitalism. However, I have less appreciation for his proposed "solutions."