/lit/ - Literature

>>12409943
if I wasn't about to go to bed I would just all the wordsworth classics ones, they're legendary at this point

>>11566031
There is a version with this cover but I don't personally own it

Reading this right now

>Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say, – Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

>call me Ishmael
>copious whale facts
>thinly veiled interracial gay sex

> live in a nation (Finland) without private universities
> universities aim to educate reasonable amounts of each subjects unlike in US where there is economic incentive to teach lib arts to everyone who wants to study it
> The whole University of Helsinki takes in 13 people for comparative literature a year, whole humanities department takes in 650 people a year (and this is by far the largest humanities department in the country, other seven taking in 1700 combined)
> Really low acceptance rates, 4% at worst (Aesthetics, Art History) and 11% at best (Linguistics) outside really specific culture studies (Italian, Latvian/Lithuanian, Native Russian) which are all still less than 40% entrance
> Shrinking budgets and student amounts every single year despite increase in applicants
> Nearby STEM university takes in 4000 people a year just for Engineering and Business
> Altogether STEM schools in Finland take in 14 000 students a year
> People are complaining about "overabundance" and "overeducation" of liberal arts students, who compose 12.5% of all the new students with a reduced proportion every single year
pragmatism, not even once

I'm in charge of finding my college bookclub a new book to read. Its mainly consisting of proto-hipster girls who think that Murakami and Hosseini are hot shit.

What should I choose? Something they'd like, but something a full blown guy on /lit/ would?

> 4 dollars

>>4094526
I like the idea of someone selling world literature classics for 1/3 of the normal price

But these covers.