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/lit/, I just got a bit of money in my wallet to spare so I need to know: Harvard Classics, or Great Books of the Western World? I'm buying a full set, and I don't know which is more complete in it's anthology. I hear GBOTWW is better then Harvard Classics for the literature bit, but is Harvard Classics better for learning some basic things about the subject matter involved? Which do I get? What edition?

>> No.4937573

G-BUTT WHOA WHOA!

>> No.4937593

>/lit/ pls help me accruing a pretty bkshelf and sum gud cultural capital

>> No.4937602
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4937602

make sure they're bound in real leather. and pay for them with real money also bound in leather from a leather wallet which is bound in real leather.

>> No.4937617

just buy cheap books secondhand as and when you need them like a real nigga rather than a big poncy stupid library to sit unread on your bookshelf to impress your shitty middlebrow friends, and put your money in the bank

>> No.4937623

buy used versions of said classics

>> No.4937902

>>4937617
I intended to use my money to buy something which would make me happy, and something I'd one day be able to pass on to my children. What is the issue with this? and can anyone give me an opinion on the content matter of the two volumes, which is preferable, which has the best translations?

>> No.4937932

>>4937902
Your children will just get Kindles.

What a waste.

>> No.4938080

>>4937623
This. That way, when you never read them, it'll still look like you've read them. Win/win.

>> No.4938090

>>4937932
This. Libraries are a white elephant. Wow, thanks, Dad, a half ton of dead weight at a time when mobility and independence are in demand. Saying nothing of libraries.

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4938099

Looking for something?

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4938119

I don't know about the Harvard Classics but most of the translations in the Britannica Great Books series are awkward and turgid.

You'll get much more satisfaction building your library book by book rather than as furniture.

>> No.4938123

>>4938099
a good camera

>> No.4938128

>>4938119
Eh. I was building it book by book, and then I was given tgbotww

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>>4937543
Go with the Penguin Drop Caps series.

>> No.4938145

Oh OP.
There was a full Harvard Classics collectiong going for $2/ea (and later $5/box) at my kid's school fair. Nobody bought them.
I really considered it, for the kid's sake, but we don't have the room.

>> No.4938148

>>4938130
these are so bad... they feel terrible, and the pages bunch so flipping through them is no fun at all