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Collected Works, Book Series And Boxed Sets That I Like
Complete WorksComplete Works by Plato
Buy new: £23.10 / Used from: £18.73
A philosophy of masks.
Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Boulez)Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Boulez)
Buy new: £55.48 / Used from: £71.20
From the heated rock pours a ring.
Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation (Bollingen Series (General))Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation (Bollingen Series (General)) by Aristotle
Buy used from: £43.90
The star-field of logic, memory and aggregate experience.
Complete WorksComplete Works by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £450.00
Original spelling in modern type edition of Shakespeare. There is also a Norton luxury facsimile of the first folio, but that's not really a reading edition. Find in secondhand shops, about 20 pounds.
The BBC TV Shakespeare CollectionThe BBC TV Shakespeare Collection
Buy new: £159.98 / Used from: £139.97
37 plays filmed by the BBC. Around half are classic productions; many others are only versions filmed or else contain much to delight.
The Complete Sacred Music of Henry PurcellThe Complete Sacred Music of Henry Purcell
Buy new: £61.99 / Used from: £53.46
Purcell.
Year of the Four Emperors (Roman Imperial Biographies)Year of the Four Emperors (Roman Imperial Biographies) by Kenneth Wellesley
Buy new: £20.77 / Used from: £21.42
Roman Imperial Biographies, now from Routledge. Peerless political studies.
Complete WorksComplete Works by Benedictus De Spinoza
Buy new: £34.30 / Used from: £33.48
Geometry of struggle / love.
The British General Election of 2005The British General Election of 2005 by David Butler
Buy new: £16.80 / Used from: £11.49
One of the Nuffield series of British General Election studies. A modern chronicle of stone-casting.
Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI: Works of Love (Kierkegaard's Writings)Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI: Works of Love (Kierkegaard's Writings) by Soren Kierkegaard
Buy new: £13.16 / Used from: £16.22
One volume of the Princeton series of 'Kierkegaard's Writings' in 26 volumes.
Tales Of The Four Seasons (Four Discs) (DVD)Tales Of The Four Seasons (Four Discs) (DVD)
Buy new: £17.99
Leaves of speech and modern Romance
Heimat [1984]Heimat [1984] by Heimat
The first of three series. A century's homeland.
The Ladies' Paradise (Oxford World's Classics)The Ladies' Paradise (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola
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One of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, the petri-dish of realism.
The Black Sheep: (La Rabouilleuse) (Classics)The Black Sheep: (La Rabouilleuse) (Classics) by Honore de Balzac
Buy new: £4.17 / Used from: £2.25
'La Comédie humaine' cycle contains 95 finished works. 'The Black Sheep' is one of the Scenes of Provincial Life
In Search of Lost Time (6 Volume Set)In Search of Lost Time (6 Volume Set) by Marcel Proust
The new Penguin translation of Proust.
Henry VIII (Yale English Monarchs)Henry VIII (Yale English Monarchs) by J.J. Scarisbrick
Buy used from: £11.95
A biography in the Yale English Monarchs Series; most books in the series are top-notch.
Ozu - The Noriko Trilogy (Late Spring / Early Summer / Tokyo Story) [1949]Ozu - The Noriko Trilogy (Late Spring / Early Summer / Tokyo Story) [1949]
Buy new: £17.97 / Used from: £13.49
Ozu's quiet surface of rage. (The separate Criterion editions of these three films are to be preferred.)
Beckett On FilmBeckett On Film
Buy new: £84.98 / Used from: £71.26
Modern lullabies filmed.
Shostakovich: War SymphoniesShostakovich: War Symphonies by Kirov Orchestra
Buy new: £34.99 / Used from: £22.65
Musical entanglement.
The Iliad and the Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)The Iliad and the Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Homer
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.47
Chapman's Iliad and Odyssey at a bargain price.
Petrarch in English (Penguin Classics)Petrarch in English (Penguin Classics) by Thomas P. Roche
Buy new: £7.36 / Used from: £5.95
A recent addition to the Penguin poetry In English series. Each volume collects together translations from different periods into a curve of imitation and invention.
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, "Chin P'ing Mei": Volume One: The Gathering: Or Chin P'ing Mei: Gathering v. 1 (Princeton Library of Asian Translations)The Plum in the Golden Vase or, "Chin P'ing Mei": Volume One: The Gathering: Or Chin P'ing Mei: Gathering v. 1 (Princeton Library of Asian Translations)
Buy new: £19.21 / Used from: £27.58
A catalogue of erotic and social rhetoric forms an enormous novel. This is the first of five volumes.
George Washington and the New Nation, (1783-1793): 3George Washington and the New Nation, (1783-1793): 3 by James Thomas Flexner
Buy new: £20.17 / Used from: £17.56
James Thomas Flexner's four-volume political biography of Washington is excellent; the shape of a life.
The Psalms of David - The Complete St Paul's Cathedral PsalterThe Psalms of David - The Complete St Paul's Cathedral Psalter
Buy new: £58.98 / Used from: £49.99
Pennies from heaven.
History of My Life: v. 1 & 2 (History of My Life)History of My Life: v. 1 & 2 (History of My Life) by G Casanova
Buy new: £10.69 / Used from: £10.69
Unabridged edition of Casanova's History of My Life in seven volumes. Collect them all and a painting of a naked woman is draped across the spines. A classy publication from Johns Hopkins.