The Classics Club - Seeking List of Titles

By "classics" I am assuming you mean just pre 20th century works of fiction? Can we include poetry/plays?

Please add a few of Dostoyevksy's greatest works: The Brothers Karamazov, House of the Dead, Crime and Punishment

And plays: Aeschylus' The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Orestiade;

Sophocles: Antigone; Oedipus the king; Oedipus of Colonnus;

Euripides: Bacchae, Medea, Trojan Women.

There are no classics without these "fathers" of narrative

21 posted on 01/25/2009 7:41:28 PM PST by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! + In this sign Conquer! +)

This is a series of books sold by mail.

I have some of them but not all and I cannot find a complete listing of them.

Check the link in post #5 for a picture and description of “The Classics Club”.

22 posted on 01/25/2009 7:44:29 PM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

To: thecodont; Publius; Tanniker Smith

These Freepers have book-related lists.

23 posted on 01/25/2009 7:46:15 PM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

You left off the blanks. How do we fill them in?

24 posted on 01/25/2009 7:46:39 PM PST by Misterioso ( Socialism is an ideology. Capitalism is a natural phenomenon.)

If you know of titles that were in Walter J. Black’s series “The Classics Club” that I have not listed, just post them here, and I’ll go to my blog and update the post I made about it.

25 posted on 01/25/2009 7:49:15 PM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

26 posted on 01/25/2009 7:54:40 PM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

Maybe this will help.

http://tinyurl.com/befzwu

27 posted on 01/25/2009 7:54:42 PM PST by Misterioso ( Socialism is an ideology. Capitalism is a natural phenomenon.)

Spelling of “Rubaiyat” needs to be fixed. You already had every CC title I know, but I don’t have a complete list.

28 posted on 01/25/2009 8:15:26 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)

29 posted on 01/25/2009 9:19:15 PM PST by HelloooClareece ("We make war that we may live in peace". Aristotle)

See Post #7, but thanks.

30 posted on 01/26/2009 2:44:59 AM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

Cool.

Feel free to use the ones I’ve found; I will update the page on my blog as new titles are sent to me.

31 posted on 01/26/2009 3:11:31 AM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

Don Quixote should be on the list.

32 posted on 01/26/2009 3:40:37 AM PST by Paul Heinzman (Careful, man, there's a beverage here!)

To: Paul Heinzman

On second thought, I’m thinking of the Harvard Classics series. Still, it should have been one of them; I can’t imagine a serious collection of classics without it.

33 posted on 01/26/2009 3:43:04 AM PST by Paul Heinzman (Careful, man, there's a beverage here!)

I don’t know of any official lists that would be in complete agreement with each other; but I can’t imagine a good list without Tolstoy and Dostoevsky on it.

34 posted on 01/26/2009 3:56:23 AM PST by Laur

See #7, #22 for clarification.

Thanks.

35 posted on 01/26/2009 5:23:12 AM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

36 posted on 01/26/2009 10:03:06 AM PST by MHT

I haven’t found evidence of Bronte as a volume in this set; however that does not exclude the possibility that it is.

37 posted on 01/26/2009 2:47:09 PM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

38 posted on 01/26/2009 2:56:30 PM PST by mrsmith

Thank you.

They’re all on my list.

39 posted on 01/27/2009 10:58:30 PM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

I asked, and got an answer from, the Library of Congress:

Your question sent to the Rare Book & Special Collections Division has been forwarded to the Humanities and Social Sciences Division for reply. Although we have examined numerous print and online sources, we have not identified a complete list of the titles in the series “The Classics Club” published by Walter J. Black.

When we searched our Online Catalog for the phrase “Classics Club,” there were records for 33 titles published by Walter J. Black during the years 1941-1953.

WorldCat resulted in a list of 69 book titles when we searched “classics club” as a keyword with “black” as the publisher. We have not read the full list so it is possible that there may be duplicate titles in the list on WorldCat. You probably have access to WorldCat at a public library in your city.

The Bookman’s Answer: Useful Information for Book People includes “The Classics Club Checklist” (with 33 titles) at:

< http://www.bookmansanswer.com/2008/07/classics-club-was-popular-book-club-in.html >

According to the obituary for Mr. Black (published in the New York Times of April 17,1958) 60 titles were selected for this series by a panel of judges. The NYT article does not list any of the titles, and we do not know if all 60 titles (or more) were published.

A search of the New York Times in ProQuest Historical Newspapers, one of our subscription databases, yields citations to advertisements for Classics Club titles (but not a complete listing) from March 19, 1944 to February 18, 1968. We also found other articles about the publishing company and about Walter Black’s son who later became president of the company founded by his father.

You may have access to the database ProQuest Historical Newspapers at a research library in your area. If you like, we could send you printouts of the articles and a few of the advertisements.

You indicate that you have already done a good bit of web research so that you may already have found the same information that we have described above. Please let us know if you would like for us to send any printouts.

Reference Librarian, Main Reading Room
Humanities and Social Sciences Division
Library of Congress

40 posted on 02/06/2009 1:48:13 PM PST by Yanni.Znaio (On the Palin smears: "Let he who is without stones cast the first sin.")

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