Posted on 01/25/2009 5:37:13 PM PST by Yanni.Znaio
Some years ago, I subscribed to an "on approval" book club called The Classics Club, originally published by Walter J. Black in the 1940s.
I've got over thirty of the titles, and have found a number of others, but have never been able to locate a complete list of titles for this series.
I AM SEEKING THIS INFORMATION AND WOULD LIKE TO COMPLETE THIS COLLECTION AS LONG AS THE NUMBER OF VOLUMES IS REASONABLY FINITE.
Alas, Walter J. Black went out of business in the 1980s.
Here is the list of titles and authors that I either have or have confirmed are in the series:
| Own? | Title | Author |
| true | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| false | Autobiography | Benjamin Franklin |
| true | Discourses | Epictetus |
| true | Essays and New Atlantis | Francis Bacon |
| true | Essays, Poems, Addresses | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| true | Fathers and Sons | Turgenev |
| true | Five Great Dialogues | Plato |
| true | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| true | Henry Esmond | Thackeray |
| false | Lives of the Saints | |
| true | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius |
| true | Old Goriot | Balzac |
| true | On Man In The Universe | Aristotle |
| true | On Politics And Education | John Locke |
| true | On The Nature Of Things | Lucretius |
| true | Paradise Lost and Other Poems | John Milton |
| false | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| false | Progress and Poverty | Henry George |
| false | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| true | Selected Essays | Montaigne |
| true | Selected Lives And Essays | Plutarch |
| false | Selected Plays | Henrik Ibsen |
| true | Selected Poems | Horace |
| true | Selected Poems | Walt Whitman |
| true | Selected Poems | Robert Browning |
| false | Selected Tales and Poems | Edgar Allan Poe |
| true | Selected Works | Cicero |
| true | Thaïs/Sylvestre Bonnard | Anatole France |
| true | The Beginnings of Modern Science | Boynton |
| false | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| true | The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Vol. I, Comedies | William Shakespeare |
| true | The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Vol. II, Histories | William Shakespeare |
| true | The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Vol. III, Tragedies | William Shakespeare |
| false | The Golden Treasury | Palgrave |
| true | The History of Plymouth | William Bradford |
| true | The Iliad | Homer |
| true | The Law of War and Peace | Hugo Grotius |
| true | The Odyssey | Homer |
| true | The Praise of Folly | Erasmus |
| false | The Rubiyat | Omar Khayyam |
| true | The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler |
| true | Two Years Before The Mast | Richard Henry Dana |
| true | Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| true | Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
Would you ping the book list, please?
The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories tells the story of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus travelled extensively around the ancient world, conducting interviews and collecting stories for his book. At the beginning of The Histories, Herodotus sets out his reasons for writing it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histories_(Herodotus)
I think this is a classic,it should be on the list imho.
FR Book Club ping. (one of the book clubs at any rate)
I do not downplay Herodotus, his reputation as one of the earliest historians is undeniable.
I found that one and got two new titles from it. I have several that he doesn't have.
Note that there's no place to contact the site owner- Did a bit of digging via WHOIS and some websearching and found out that it's registered to
Don Rogerson Books
415 N 3rd St
Red Oak, Iowa USA 51566-2232
Another dead end.
Phone number is disconnected.
Could you stick me on your book ping list..
See #7, thanks.
We can each tell what the other reads by our screen names.
:-)
You’re added. I don’t ping much. Usually pings to other book threads when I see them or someone pings me.
Thats fine .Thank you .
Put me on your list, too, please.
The author of this thread desires the help of our FReeper Book Club to fill in the blanks in his list.
Add me too. Thanks.
Please add me to your list. Thank you.
“Captains Courageous” by Rudyard Kipling?
Not mine. My screen name was the name of a now-deceased and very dumb cat that we had! LOL!
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