Book Hauls!

I love that cover, dask. Especially the way our heroine is frocked up in flapper dress, but with the addition of space-agey shiny metal accoutrements!
 
Some more penguin black classics.....

Early History of Rome Books 1 - 5 - Livy
Blurb:Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early History of Rome. With stylistic brilliance, he chronicles nearly 400 years of history, from the founding of Rome (traditionally dated to 757 BC) to the Gallic invasion in 386 BC - an era which witnessed the reign of seven kings, the establishment of the Republic, civil strife and brutal conflict. Bringing compelling characters to life, and re-presenting familiar tales - including the tragedy of Coriolanus and the story of Romulus and Remus - The Early History is a truly epic work, and a passionate warning that Rome should learn from its history.

Rome and Italy Books 6 - 10 - Livy
Blurb:Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this fascinating history, events are described not simply in terms of partisan politics, but through colourful portraits that bring the strengths, weaknesses and motives of leading figures such as the noble statesman Camillus and the corrupt Manlius vividly to life. While Rome's greatest chronicler intended his history to be a memorial to former glory, he also had more didactic aims - hoping that readers of his account could learn from the past ills and virtues of the city.

History of he Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Blurb: Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.

Annals - Tacitus
Blurb:A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome. Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity Tacitus describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies and murders that were part of imperial life. Despite his claim that the Annals were written objectively, Tacitus' account is sharply critical of the emperors' excesses and fearful for the future of imperial Rome, while also filled with a longing for its past glories.
 
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Table of contents. (For substantially less used, I hasten to add, as I could never afford it new. And this is intended as a reader for college students or some such - textbooks are crazy - a $50 paperback.)

I'm kind of torn. This is 991 pages of triple-columned text in a book at least the size of a telephone book (remember those?) - something like over 140 stories and almost 60 articles - 2 million words, about seven or eight Dozois annuals, which themselves are about three ordinary anthologies, so 21-24 of those. But the type is so tiny I'm afraid it's unreadable. (This is why Ghu invented bookstores, boys and girls! See with your own eyes.) The webpage lists it as "from" but I think it has the complete A Princess of Mars (the foreword and all 28 chapters are at least represented) - in 33 pages! (One of my other copies is 166.)

Still, it's just kind of awesome to hold so much SF in your hands at once. I feel like a kid at Christmas. Even if I've got 9/10 of the fiction (and, as with most anthologies, I do have a lot of it[1]), I probably have next-to-nothing of the essays and it still leaves a whomping big anthology.

Plus, the seller shipped it in a bubble-wrap bag with a joke printed on it: "Edgar Allan Poe considered using a parrot instead of a raven in his poem 'The Raven'."

Squawked the parrot, "Nifty score." :D
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[1] Major bonus points for including Mina Loy's "Lunar Baedeker", incidentally, even though I have it in both an anthology and a collection. Fantastic poem by an unfairly neglected poet.
 
I blame Extollager but anyway today I picked up next 2 volumes in the Barchester Chronicles in the Penguin editions....

Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
Blurb:After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisions within the diocese. Trollope's masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and comic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled by such very different figures as the saintly Warden of Hiram's Hospital, Septimus Harding, the ineffectual but well-meaning new bishop and his terrifying wife, and the oily chaplain Mr Slope who has designs on Mr Harding's daughter.

Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
Blurb:Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaged estate by making a good marriage to a wealthy heiress. Only Mary's loving uncle, Dr Thorne, knows the secret of her birth and the fortune she is to inherit that will make her socially acceptable in the eyes of Frank's family - but the high-principled doctor believes she should be accepted on her own terms. A telling examination of the relationship between society, money and morality, Dr Thorne (1858) is enduringly popular for Trollope's affectionate depiction of rural English life and his deceptively simple portrayal of human nature.
 
Glad to help. That was my plan all along. :)

Actually, I had examined that anthology and thought about it a bit before taking the plunge but did a really poor job of it. Having gotten it, I looked much more carefully and am much less happy. First, as I say, it's basically illegible. Second, while I know there's a lot of stuff up on Project Gutenberg and that this anthology had an example or two, it turns out that the compiler apparently just downloaded PG and put it into a book. There are a lot of PG stories, to the extent that Poul Anderson is represented by "Duel on Syrtis" rather than, oh, "Queen of Air and Darkness" or "Call Me Joe" or... Third, even taking that into account, it doesn't seem to be a very good anthology for what it purports to be. Only three authors have more than one story (all with two) and those are rightly Asimov and not wrongly Williamson and... Bisson? (And at least one of those is downloadable from his website.) No offense, but he's not Heinlein or even any number of newer authors. And there are all kinds of authors who aren't represented at all. I mean, even in an anthology with 140 stories (going with this as my final, more careful count, excluding excerpts and pre-1926 stories) you can only represent up to 140 authors and have to leave people out but where's, I dunno, George RR Martin? Henry Kuttner? William Gibson? Ray Bradbury? And the same questions arise with some of the story selections even when the freebie Gutenberg story is not dictating the selection. Fourth, I've read a few of the articles and there are (relatively minor, I guess) errors of fact amidst the good information.

But, even with all that in the negative ledger, it's still got (depending on how you count 'em - some I might have within a fixup or in a digital file but not as a stand-alone story in a book, whereas some I don't have at all) 30-40 stories out of the 140 I don't already have and it may be the only "classic reprint" SF anthology in the English-speaking world that can manage that. So, for just a bag o' stories, it's still a good buy, but not quite the nirvana I was originally thinking.
 
There appears to be at least one error in that tome, J-Sun. It lists Clifford Simak's "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" under 'The Golden Age (1936-1945)', when in fact Cliff wrote it in 1980! They perhaps should have known that, as it won the Nebula in 1980 and the Hugo in 1981.
 
Yep, I consider it an error, too, but there are actually several stories like that - he seems to generally put the author in their "first big splash" era even if the story is decades off of that and, even allowing for that (poor) decision[1], they still mess it up - for instance, Octavia E. Butler wrote only one piece of fiction before 1976 but they have her in the 1960-75 "New Wave" section.

-- Oh, forgot to add: they do have a list in an appendix of all the stories in chronological order by date of publication, so they do have the Simak correctly listed as April 1980 in there. But the contents aren't exactly in chronological order.

[1] I actually have authors on my bookshelves split up into (ProtoSF/Golden Age/New Wave/Cyberpunk/Current) eras and keep all an authors books together so my shelves have the same effect but it's a bad call for an anthology, IMO.
 
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Ordered A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas Basbanes.
 
Recently acquired.....

Selected Tales - Henry James
Blurb:Throughout his life, Henry James was drawn to the short story form for the freedom and variety it offered. The nineteen stories in this selection span James's career, from brief tales to longer works, all exploring his concerns with the old world and the new, money, fame and art. 'Daisy Miller', the work that first brought him fame, depicts a bold, unsophisticated American girl abroad, and 'In the Cage' portrays a young telegraphist's romantic fantasies about customers who send telegrams from her post office. In 'The Birthplace' a Stratford tour guide embellishes the Shakespeare legend, while in the late masterpiece 'The Jolly Corner', an elderly American returns from Europe and encounters a strange apparition. Haunting, witty and beautifully drawn, James's tales are as complex and resonant as his novels.

Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Blurb: The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon’s classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines.Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life, Lady Audley’s Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century and still exerts a powerful hold on reader.

Consolation of Philosophy - Ancius Boethius
Blurb: Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. THE CONSOLATION was extremely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of Chaucer and Dante.

The Book on the Bookshelf - Henry Petroski
Blurb: Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, enviably written, and charmed with anecdotes from Seneca to Samuel Pepys to a nineteenth-century bibliophile who had to climb over his books to get into bed, The Book on the Bookshelf is indispensable for anyone who loves books.
 
This week my Literature of Late Antiquity students conclude the weeks on Boethius, Gollum. This really is an essential book for anyone interested in the thought-world of medieval culture (and more). Most readers in today's "Whatever" milieu will not possess the seriousness of thought-life needed to give Boethius much time. Some readers will read it but just check off "influences": "Ah, Plato... ah, Proclus," etc. -- which is a convenient way of keeping ideas at arm's length. This is a short book and, for the most part, not a very hard book to read. It's a perennial resource of wisdom, very much a living book. NB it is discussed briefly but significantly in the section on images of evil, in Tom Shippey's essential study The Road to Middle-earth, a good book for people to take up who somehow have come to assume that LOTR is "twee." I suppose such objectors also find Plato's Socratic dialogues, y'know, to be "yadda-yadda."
 
This week my Literature of Late Antiquity students conclude the weeks on Boethius, Gollum. This really is an essential book for anyone interested in the thought-world of medieval culture (and more). Most readers in today's "Whatever" milieu will not possess the seriousness of thought-life needed to give Boethius much time. Some readers will read it but just check off "influences": "Ah, Plato... ah, Proclus," etc. -- which is a convenient way of keeping ideas at arm's length. This is a short book and, for the most part, not a very hard book to read. It's a perennial resource of wisdom, very much a living book. NB it is discussed briefly but significantly in the section on images of evil, in Tom Shippey's essential study The Road to Middle-earth, a good book for people to take up who somehow have come to assume that LOTR is "twee." I suppose such objectors also find Plato's Socratic dialogues, y'know, to be "yadda-yadda."
Thanks for those insights. I did have some knowledge of Boethius and knew this was an important work, so when I spotted a copy recently I grabbed it. I find it amazing in a way when you consider the circumstances under which he wrote this facing death. He has influenced a number of prominent writers including Dante. I believe he was first translated into English (at least what is referred to as 'middle English' for that period) by Chaucer who was also greatly influenced by Boethius.

Plato's 'Last Days of Socrates' is a magnificent work (and tribute) and absolutely relevant still to today's society. Down with any naysayers I say!!

Also I moved the Jones thread as requested.

Cheers.
 
Thanks for those insights. I did have some knowledge of Boethius and knew this was an important work, so when I spotted a copy recently I grabbed it. I find it amazing in a way when you consider the circumstances under which he wrote this facing death. He has influenced a number of prominent writers including Dante. I believe he was first translated into English (at least what is referred to as 'middle English' for that period) by Chaucer who was also greatly influenced by Boethius.
Centuries earlier, King Edward translated Boethius into OE. But I think the book is of much more than merely historical interest.
 
Extollager I agree that this work is far more than mere historical document but I did not know that King Edward had translated it earlier. I got the impression that the Chaucer translation was relatively wide spread/read in its time and beyond but whether it was more 'popular' or 'successful' a translation than the one created by King Edward I don't know.
 
Thanks for amending the Madison Jones thread title.

I'll probably have something more to post there within a few weeks, as I mean to turn to his first novel, The Innocent.
 

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