Book haul at HPB
First, here's a pic of everything.
Here, you can see each of the P. G. Wodehouse titles I got. Never bought Jeeves and Wooster books before, but this should be a great read. The BBC series was hilarious, what I recall seeing when I was a kid. Always adored Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry; in fact, I already have books written by them, too. Also got a couple Jane Austen titles and a Fyodor Dostoevsky that are part of a special edition series.
Then I got a bunch of books in this gorgeous special edition collection by Chiltern Publishing. I already had Jane Eyre and a couple other titles in this series, so I hope I don't have any extra copies of anything. I don't think so, but I'll have to unbox my books to find out for sure. I'm a bit worried that I might already have a copy of Wuthering Heights....
And then these books that are more random. I already had books 1 and 2 of Parasyte, so now I also have book 3. Then I already had Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis, but this is a signed copy! The Philip Pullman book is a collection of his essays about the writing process. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is considered by some to be one of the 100 greatest masterpieces of American literature. And then Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the one book I actually went there for. 😅 Too bad they didn't have a pretty copy, but that's ok. Maybe Chiltern will release one later. 🤔
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Classic Fantasy in English
250 years, 69 books, 48 writers
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - 1726
Fairy Tales Told for Children - Hans Christian Andersen - 1835-1863 tr. Mrs. H. B. Paull 1867-1872
The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley - 1863
Alice in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - 1865/1871
Mopsa The Fairy - Jean Ingelow - 1869
At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald - 1871
The Princess and the Goblin/The Princess and Curdie - George MacDonald - 1872/1883
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - R. L. Stevenson - 1886
The Happy Prince and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde - 1888
News from Nowhere - William Morris - 1890
The Book of Dragons - E. Nesbit - 1901
The Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling - 19021
Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie - 1902-1911
The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit - 1907
Puck of Pook's Hill/Rewards and Fairies - Rudyard Kipling - 1906/1910
Lud in the Mist - Hope Mirrlees - 1926
The Midnight Folk - John Masefield - 1927
Dr. Dolittle in the Moon - Hugh Lofting - 1928
Patapoufs et Filifers / Fattypuffs and Thinifers - André Maurois - 1930/tr. Rosemary Benet 1940
The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas - Erich Kästner - 1931, tr. Cyrus Brooks 1934
Jirel of Joiry - C. L. Moore - 1934-1939
The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger - Noel Langley - 1937
My Friend Mr Leakey - J. B. S. Haldane - 1937
The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien - 1937-1955
Le Petit Prince / The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 tr Katherine Woods
The Wind on the Moon - Eric Linklater - 1944
Mistress Masham's Repose - T.H. White - 1946
The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge - 1946
Trollkarlens Hatt / Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson - 1948 tr. Elizabeth Portch 1950
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - 1949
Seven Days in New Crete - Robert Graves - 1949
The Borrowers / Afield / Afloat / Aloft / Avenged - Mary Norton - 1952/1955/1959/1961/1982
All You've Ever Wanted / More Than You Bargained For - Joan Aiken - 1953/1955
To the Chapel Perilous - Naomi Mitchison - 1955
Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce - 1958
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis - 1950
The 13 Clocks - James Thurber - 1950
Round the Bend - Neville Shute - 1951
The Armourer's House - Rosemary Sutcliff - 1951
The Once and Future King - T. H. White - 1938-1958
Candy Floss / Impunity Jane / Miss Happiness and Miss Flower - Rumer Godden 1954 / 1960 / 1961
Sword at Sunset - Rosemary Sutcliff - 1963
Book of Heroes - William Mayne - 1966
Tree and Leaf\Smith of Wootton Major - J. R. R. Tolkien - 1945-1967
The Crystal Cave / The Hollow Hills / The Last Enchantment / The Wicked Day - Mary Stewart 1970-1983
Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey - 1968
A Wizard of Earthsea / The Tombs of Atuan / The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. Le Guin - 1968/1971/1972
Red Moon and Black Mountain - Joy Chant - 1970
Tom Ass or The Second Gift - Ann Lawrence - 1972
The Dark Is Rising/Greenwitch/The Grey King - Susan Cooper - 1973 / 1974 / 1975
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