As a lover of a good book I was very excited (more than I probably should have been) when I saw these editions of the classics last year. These are the Penguin Clothbound Classics Collection and I think they would make a great gift this Christmas. The cover designs are beautiful, the only downside to this, as you can see from the faded flamingos on the white book tend is the pictures tend to rub off. They all have a built in bookmark which I do really like. I think there will be at least one book for everyone in the collection.
I have 9 books which are -
So far I have read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Hound of the Baskervilles, I'm currently making my way through Inferno which is both in Italian and English. What I really like is that at the beginning of each book there are a few chapters about the authors and how they came to write the stories. The Lewis Carroll introduction was very interesting, I'd quite like to find out more about him.
There are 2 more books that in the New Year I will be adding to my collection -
The Travels by Marco Polo and The Iliad by Homer. By the time I get these I will have hopefully found room on my bookcase to put them!
I got mine from Amazon who seemed to be the cheapest when I bought mine last year. I believe prices vary between £11 to £14ish which I think is fair for such a lovely thing.
Has anyone else got any from this collection?
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