Interesting. A couple of my favorite Modern classics that rocked my world were To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Babbitt, The Hobbit, Fahrenheit 451, How Green Was My Valley, Desert Solitaire, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Ooh she got an absolute bargain with those books didn’t she. I have always wanted to read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. I have a feeling Nurse Ratchett could be an icon. I thought a modern classic was a book that was over 30 years sold and under 100 years old… maybe that’s wrong, well one is over that so I am. Ha. I’m expecting a ‘My Ten Modern Classics video’ coming soon.
Great video Louise, Irecently bought the complete set of The Famous Five books, I remember reading as a child as I'm a 70s baby, so wanted to relive memories of my youth. ☺
I'm here for alllll the penguins, very partial to a Penguin modern classic haul. I've got a big book that's a history of the Penguin Modern Classics and I'm not sure I have many in your haul, I have a copy of Triffids (really have to read it) and reread The Jungle Book (that is a weird inclusion as is Room with a view). I must look them up in my Big Book. I think the films linking them is a strong possibility but weird, hey! All the covers are from the films, I think. Clive James, he's a blast from the past the old rogue, one of our Aus expats. I have a couple of his poetry collections. A very interesting haul! Cheers Louise
I've been thinking about picking up some vintage penguin modern classics and ended up back here. Apparently, Penguin Modern Classics was a series that started in 1963 and included books from 100 years previous. What was considered a Modern Classic in 1963 has changed a bit, lol, but still being republished in these Series. I'm kind of fascinated with them.
IMHO Lolita is perhaps one of the finest examples of how deftly and brilliantly the English language can be used. Nabokov, for whom English was his 3rd or 4th language, was an absolute master craftsman in his ability to create such a novel. I’m not sure I would have classified Ian Fleming’s Bond in among the modern classics, but I may be wrong. I would rather have seen “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” by Sloan Wilson included.
They made it into a film with Gregory Peck. It was from the late 50’s early 60’s period when everyone was enamored with existentialism and middle class angst. Wilson also wrote “A Summer Place” also made into a film, but the book was better. When you mentioned Virginia Woolf, I realized it’s decades since I read A Room of One’s Own (last semester college). Mrs. Dalloway is my favorite as well. The NY Tines noted a sudden revival of Woolf back in the 80’s and parodied it by announcing the Virginia Woolf Book of the Month club.
I'd love to see your top ten modern classics Louise, fantastic video as always. I haven't read quite a few of those so I need to prioritise that for 2023!
Ah- I love Truman Capote's writing and would definitely consider his writing a modern classic. Recently I read Franny & Zooey by Salinger, and I think I consider that a modern classic.
I bought this same collection in 2008/9 from one of those catalogues that used to come around offices if that helps you date these. I’m not sure Ian Fleming would be in there now after the me too movement. Whoever donated those has had them hanging around unwrapped for years! So fun to see them all, I’ve always thought the connection was movies as well but I can tell you it didn’t come with a description.
I've read Orlando, a clockwork orange, lolita and room with a view, all of which are great books. I would agree with you though about the not so modern bit of a few!!
What a great haul, Louise! Thanks for sharing it with us🌷That poetry selection by Clive James looks very tempting. I’m currently reading A Happy Poem to End Every Day, doing exactly what the title says and loving it!😊 There is a beautiful film adaptation of Orlando starring Tilda Swinton, who also narrates the Audible version. I love A Room of One’s Own read by her as well (it feels like being part of Virginia Woolf’s audience at Cambridge). Looking forward to your top 10 modern classics! Mine would probably be A Room of One’s Own, Mrs Dalloway, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani, History: A Novel by Elsa Morante, Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki, The Leopard by G. Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch (if 1992 is not too late for a modern classic…).
Louise, I love your channel. Quite a while ago you talked about "Guppies for Tea" which had been on my shelves for years. I finally read it. It was fantasic, one of my favorite books of last year. Thanks again.
Hi I look forward to your videos! I also bought that set from the book people who came round offices. I've still not read all but was plesently surprised by day of the triffids and remember loving it.
I'm jealous in the best possible way! What a find! I have a little collection of Truman Capote books and Capote adjacent books that I'd like to read all together. Immerse myself. If you decide to read or reread these as a group, it sounds like a wonderful video. Of course, I love any video you make. ❤
Great question! I’m going to think on it, but off the top of my head, A Room With A View and Lady Chatterley’s Lover would be on my top 10, as well as The French Lieutenant’s Woman. I will give the other seven spots some thought. As always, I enjoyed your video, Louise! Thanks.
That is a very interesting collection of books. It seems to be a good bargain overall. By the way, that color looks great on you. It was one of the colors in my wedding 39 years ago: royal blue and ivory. It is also a color that looks good on me as well.
What an awesome Book Haul.. you got a Great Deal on those penguin classics..my list of modern classics is very slim.., I have watched a lot of movies based on modern classics … but if I had to do a list these three would top the list…”The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker and “84 Charring Cross Road” by Helene Hanff.. ( that one makes me happy and by the end I’m totally 😢) thank you Louise for a relaxing video 🥰☺️ 15:52
As always, Louise, I love your musings. I have only read two of these -- Breakfast at Tiffany's and Orlando. I loved them both. They would both qualify for modern classics if we look at publication dates of 1900-1970. My suggestions for modern classics would start with The Prime of Miss Jean Brody by Muriel Spark. I would argue for We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Interestingly, all three of these have been made into films. With Ian Fleming, I have only read Casino Royale (and Chitty Chitty Bang Band some four or five decades ago). I enjoyed Casino Royale, but the James Bond novels are not at the top of my to-read-next list. I think it's worth reading one.
Interesting collection. Lolita is worth reading but I wouldn't call it a comedy - very disturbing. Personally I'll never read clockwork orange, but would like to get to cuckoo's nest.
I loved the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" . I haven't read it. Gorgeous covers. I have read other Kipling's and really enjoyed them but I wouldn't consider him modern? "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" is on my TBR. Nurse Ratchet is definitely a her. I liked "Passage to India" over "Room with a view". Goldfinger????? I have never heard of "A kestrel for a knave" . "Lolita"...I started and quit that a while back. Not sure I will go back to it. "Orlando" was interesting. Interesting group of books.
Thanks for the review! It was great to see how Penguin Modern Classics books look like! These editions have great aesthetic covers, but I think that the quality of paper is not so good... Anyway, do you plan to collect F.S.Fitzgerald's books in this collection?🤩
For me, these editions are very nostalgic. They were the affordable books of my childhood in the Seventies. I’ve been so delighted by the way that books have become such objects of beauty again in the last decade. 🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
Room with a View is one of my favorite books but I would not describe it as modern. Seems to be an odd eclectic group of books. The movie connection makes sense.
My list: 1. To Kill A Mockingbird 2. Lonesome Dove 3. The Thirty-nine Steps 4. Lost Horizon 5. What Makes Sammy Run 6. Rabbit Run 7. The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner and stories 8. Cider House Rules 9. The Handmaid's Tale 10. Gorky Park et al. (I fell in love with the melancholic Arkady), if any don't make the cut then any Jack London. Okay just checked 3 of my choices were not published until the banner year of 1985, so throw in Judgment of Paris and other Gore Vidal. Plays Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, poetry Edna St. Vincent Millay.
That would be a lovely video. I feel like when it comes to modern classics I would need to have Peter Pan and something by Wharton in it. Still, not sure if they would be modern as such, what is modern anyway? 20th century?
The Jungle Book definitely not a modern classic. I would say a modern classic should be 20th century at earliest. My list would include: Mrs Dalloway; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Wide Sargasso Sea; 1984; Brave New World; Of Mice and Men. Rebecca. Animal Farm. The end of the affair by Graham Greene. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. If we were extending into the 70s and 80s I'd want some Drabble, Bainbridge and Lessing on there too. And the late Fay Weldon. A room with a view feels very Victorian but was 1908, though a society of chaperones etc doesn't feel "modern".
What an eclectic and odd collection (although what an amazing price). Seems to me that it includes a very expansive definition of “modern.” Lolita is a must read, but a very disturbing one.
That’s a very difficult question. I think the text might be available on line. Why not read some there and see what you think. I’ll be very interested to find out what you think 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
@@louisesavidgemuses4135 so I have read a bit of this and I feel like it would be a bit of a slow read for me personally, only because I am trying to decipher some words during a conversation or need to look up words. ie: "Billy stopped and lolled back against the dray". I had to look up the word 'dray'. Doesn't mean I won't still read it at some point though.
Interesting. A couple of my favorite Modern classics that rocked my world were To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Babbitt, The Hobbit, Fahrenheit 451, How Green Was My Valley, Desert Solitaire, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Great choices! 🤔 The Hobbit had a profound effect on my imagination 💭📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏
Ooh she got an absolute bargain with those books didn’t she. I have always wanted to read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. I have a feeling Nurse Ratchett could be an icon. I thought a modern classic was a book that was over 30 years sold and under 100 years old… maybe that’s wrong, well one is over that so I am. Ha. I’m expecting a ‘My Ten Modern Classics video’ coming soon.
Perhaps we should buddy read Cuckoo’s Nest… 😍
@@louisesavidgemuses4135 I wonder if it fits a prompt!
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Great video Louise, Irecently bought the complete set of The Famous Five books, I remember reading as a child as I'm a 70s baby, so wanted to relive memories of my youth. ☺
Wonder where that will take you. I think books can really trigger memories and nostalgia. 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
I'm here for alllll the penguins, very partial to a Penguin modern classic haul. I've got a big book that's a history of the Penguin Modern Classics and I'm not sure I have many in your haul, I have a copy of Triffids (really have to read it) and reread The Jungle Book (that is a weird inclusion as is Room with a view). I must look them up in my Big Book. I think the films linking them is a strong possibility but weird, hey! All the covers are from the films, I think.
Clive James, he's a blast from the past the old rogue, one of our Aus expats. I have a couple of his poetry collections.
A very interesting haul! Cheers Louise
Thank you for your thoughts 💭🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
I've been thinking about picking up some vintage penguin modern classics and ended up back here. Apparently, Penguin Modern Classics was a series that started in 1963 and included books from 100 years previous. What was considered a Modern Classic in 1963 has changed a bit, lol, but still being republished in these Series. I'm kind of fascinated with them.
What a deal, Louise! At $15 for all, I'm thinking that was 10% or perhaps less of the actual cost. Wow!
Agreed! 😀
I remember absolutely loving A Kestrel for a Knave when I read it as a child. Probably age 12/13. Definitely a classic!
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IMHO Lolita is perhaps one of the finest examples of how deftly and brilliantly the English language can be used. Nabokov, for whom English was his 3rd or 4th language, was an absolute master craftsman in his ability to create such a novel.
I’m not sure I would have classified Ian Fleming’s Bond in among the modern classics, but I may be wrong.
I would rather have seen “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” by Sloan Wilson included.
Ooo! I’ve never come across that author or title before. 😀😀😀🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚📚
They made it into a film with Gregory Peck. It was from the late 50’s early 60’s period when everyone was enamored with existentialism and middle class angst. Wilson also wrote “A Summer Place” also made into a film, but the book was better.
When you mentioned Virginia Woolf, I realized it’s decades since I read A Room of One’s Own (last semester college). Mrs. Dalloway is my favorite as well. The NY Tines noted a sudden revival of Woolf back in the 80’s and parodied it by announcing the Virginia Woolf Book of the Month club.
I'd love to see your top ten modern classics Louise, fantastic video as always. I haven't read quite a few of those so I need to prioritise that for 2023!
Hoping to give this some real consideration soon 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
Ah- I love Truman Capote's writing and would definitely consider his writing a modern classic. Recently I read Franny & Zooey by Salinger, and I think I consider that a modern classic.
Interesting pick. 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡📚📚
I loved One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Both the book and the movie.
I bought this same collection in 2008/9 from one of those catalogues that used to come around offices if that helps you date these. I’m not sure Ian Fleming would be in there now after the me too movement. Whoever donated those has had them hanging around unwrapped for years! So fun to see them all, I’ve always thought the connection was movies as well but I can tell you it didn’t come with a description.
The plot thickens… Thanks so much for the info. 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
I've read Orlando, a clockwork orange, lolita and room with a view, all of which are great books. I would agree with you though about the not so modern bit of a few!!
One Flew... is one of my favorite books. It really is amazingly deep and at the same time funny.
Must get to it… 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
Great and diverse selection! I hope you enjoy Lolita, Nabokov is fantastic ❤🎉
What a bargain! I agree, some of those are definitely classics rather than modern classics.
What a great haul, Louise! Thanks for sharing it with us🌷That poetry selection by Clive James looks very tempting. I’m currently reading A Happy Poem to End Every Day, doing exactly what the title says and loving it!😊 There is a beautiful film adaptation of Orlando starring Tilda Swinton, who also narrates the Audible version. I love A Room of One’s Own read by her as well (it feels like being part of Virginia Woolf’s audience at Cambridge). Looking forward to your top 10 modern classics! Mine would probably be A Room of One’s Own, Mrs Dalloway, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani, History: A Novel by Elsa Morante, Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki, The Leopard by G. Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch (if 1992 is not too late for a modern classic…).
Marvellous list there and so many that I haven’t read! Wonderful food for thought. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
Louise, I love your channel. Quite a while ago you talked about "Guppies for Tea" which had been on my shelves for years. I finally read it. It was fantasic, one of my favorite books of last year. Thanks again.
So glad you enjoyed it and thanks for letting me know 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡
Hi I look forward to your videos! I also bought that set from the book people who came round offices. I've still not read all but was plesently surprised by day of the triffids and remember loving it.
That’s interesting. I do remember it being a really good read and I think I read it about 40 years ago 🤣🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
I'm jealous in the best possible way! What a find! I have a little collection of Truman Capote books and Capote adjacent books that I'd like to read all together. Immerse myself. If you decide to read or reread these as a group, it sounds like a wonderful video. Of course, I love any video you make. ❤
Thank you. In Cold Blood is one of my absolute favourites. Still puzzling over my top 10 modern classics. 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
Great score of Penguin’Modern’ Classics!😂
Great question! I’m going to think on it, but off the top of my head, A Room With A View and Lady Chatterley’s Lover would be on my top 10, as well as The French Lieutenant’s Woman. I will give the other seven spots some thought. As always, I enjoyed your video, Louise! Thanks.
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That is a very interesting collection of books. It seems to be a good bargain overall. By the way, that color looks great on you. It was one of the colors in my wedding 39 years ago: royal blue and ivory. It is also a color that looks good on me as well.
Have always loved that shade. Thank you for the compliment 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
What an awesome Book Haul.. you got a Great Deal on those penguin classics..my list of modern classics is very slim.., I have watched a lot of movies based on modern classics … but if I had to do a list these three would top the list…”The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker and “84 Charring Cross Road” by Helene Hanff.. ( that one makes me happy and by the end I’m totally 😢) thank you Louise for a relaxing video 🥰☺️ 15:52
Great suggestions. The choice is dazzling. 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
As always, Louise, I love your musings.
I have only read two of these -- Breakfast at Tiffany's and Orlando. I loved them both. They would both qualify for modern classics if we look at publication dates of 1900-1970.
My suggestions for modern classics would start with The Prime of Miss Jean Brody by Muriel Spark. I would argue for We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Interestingly, all three of these have been made into films.
With Ian Fleming, I have only read Casino Royale (and Chitty Chitty Bang Band some four or five decades ago). I enjoyed Casino Royale, but the James Bond novels are not at the top of my to-read-next list. I think it's worth reading one.
Yes! JeanBrodie! Such tricky choices. Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
Interesting collection. Lolita is worth reading but I wouldn't call it a comedy - very disturbing. Personally I'll never read clockwork orange, but would like to get to cuckoo's nest.
I’m really keen to get to Cuckoo’s Nest soon too 🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚
I loved the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" . I haven't read it. Gorgeous covers. I have read other Kipling's and really enjoyed them but I wouldn't consider him modern? "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" is on my TBR. Nurse Ratchet is definitely a her. I liked "Passage to India" over "Room with a view". Goldfinger????? I have never heard of "A kestrel for a knave" . "Lolita"...I started and quit that a while back. Not sure I will go back to it. "Orlando" was interesting. Interesting group of books.
Thank you. It seems I’m not alone in thinking this is a puzzling combination 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
Thanks for the review! It was great to see how Penguin Modern Classics books look like! These editions have great aesthetic covers, but I think that the quality of paper is not so good... Anyway, do you plan to collect F.S.Fitzgerald's books in this collection?🤩
For me, these editions are very nostalgic. They were the affordable books of my childhood in the Seventies. I’ve been so delighted by the way that books have become such objects of beauty again in the last decade. 🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
Room with a View is one of my favorite books but I would not describe it as modern. Seems to be an odd eclectic group of books. The movie connection makes sense.
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My list: 1. To Kill A Mockingbird 2. Lonesome Dove 3. The Thirty-nine Steps 4. Lost Horizon 5. What Makes Sammy Run 6. Rabbit Run 7. The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner and stories 8. Cider House Rules 9. The Handmaid's Tale 10. Gorky Park et al. (I fell in love with the melancholic Arkady), if any don't make the cut then any Jack London. Okay just checked 3 of my choices were not published until the banner year of 1985, so throw in Judgment of Paris and other Gore Vidal. Plays Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, poetry Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Fabulous suggestions. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡
@@louisesavidgemuses4135 I forgot Larry Woiwode, he was a favorite and his break out book was 1969 What I'm Going To Do, I Think.
That would be a lovely video. I feel like when it comes to modern classics I would need to have Peter Pan and something by Wharton in it. Still, not sure if they would be modern as such, what is modern anyway? 20th century?
Think I’m tending towards post WW1… 🤔🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
The Jungle Book definitely not a modern classic. I would say a modern classic should be 20th century at earliest. My list would include: Mrs Dalloway; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Wide Sargasso Sea; 1984; Brave New World; Of Mice and Men. Rebecca. Animal Farm. The end of the affair by Graham Greene. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. If we were extending into the 70s and 80s I'd want some Drabble, Bainbridge and Lessing on there too. And the late Fay Weldon. A room with a view feels very Victorian but was 1908, though a society of chaperones etc doesn't feel "modern".
Mrs Dalloway should be there for sure. Love your contenders 📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏
What an eclectic and odd collection (although what an amazing price). Seems to me that it includes a very expansive definition of “modern.” Lolita is a must read, but a very disturbing one.
Agreed on all counts 🤔🙏🙏📚📚🧡🧡🧡
Would you consider The Remains of the Day a modern classic? Or is it too recent?
Will need to ponder that one: it’s one of my all time favourite books. 🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚
Do you think A Kestral for a Knave by Barry Hines is ok for an American reader or is there a lot of dialect or slang that we would not understand?
That’s a very difficult question. I think the text might be available on line. Why not read some there and see what you think. I’ll be very interested to find out what you think 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚
@@louisesavidgemuses4135 so I have read a bit of this and I feel like it would be a bit of a slow read for me personally, only because I am trying to decipher some words during a conversation or need to look up words. ie: "Billy stopped and lolled back against the dray". I had to look up the word 'dray'. Doesn't mean I won't still read it at some point though.
Google says a modern classic is written after WWI
Aaah! That’s very helpful. A sensible cutoff point. 🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚