Showing You My Classic Everyman Collection
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Somebody pls send Ben a lilac Everyman edition of a classic! I've never seen him this happy, imagine what the lilac could do! I love the infectious energy of this! Like a kid in a candy shop!
Oh, yes, please somebody do send me a lilac Everyman ;) I think I may possibly burst in that eventuality 😅
@@BenjaminMcEvoy 😂😂 I would click on that video SO Fast! Keeping my fingers crossed for you 😉
This gave me some heart palpitations- I love those editions so much! I try to collect these too, but most of what I find and buy is in pretty tattered condition.
My experience is that it can be quite difficult to find these ones in amazing condition. But at least a previous owner loved them :)
Some of mine are really early, so no wonder they are a little tatty. I have a dust jacket cleaning product that helps sometimes. I have just got a new pair of glasses and bingo, I can read small print zagain. What a relief.
Broadart acid free book covers or equivalent, must have belonged to a collector, useful to preserve new jackets or to hold together the remains of a less well preserved jacket. I need to read Trollope.
Thank you for the insight! That's good to know. Comparing them with the volumes that don't have those covers, I can say they've done a pretty good job!
I really love seeing you passionately explain every book with those happy eyes 😄(and reading the descriptions!) btw, great collection! thank you, now I've realized sooo many great books that I haven't read in my life
What a lovely collection! I guess hunting for these books is half the fun. Personally I prefer the chunky volumes as there's less that can get lost and I mostly read at home where weight is not the issue. But I remember: Kazen, from the Always Doing channel, said that Japanese publishing houses love to split up books so that the reader can hold them comfortably in one hand while standing in the subway and grabbing the hold with the other hand.
Thank you, Jessica :) Yes, the thrill of the hunt is absolutely the fun of it for me. Stumbling across a volume in a bookstore makes me incredibly happy. Very interesting about Japanese publishing houses. That makes sense. I also remember that bookstores would offer you a cover so other passengers on the subway couldn't see what you were reading :)
@@BenjaminMcEvoy I see how a non-descript dust jacket mit come in handy sometimes ;)
Out of the few classic book videos I’ve seen, you are by far the most compelling. Thanks for sharing your collection and thoughts
Thank you, Marlon :) that's so kind of you to say!
Thank you again Benjamin. I have been a struggling reader all my life. I recently came across your channel and since then have been making my way through all your videos. My booklist is growing with each video. Your excitement and passion for reading is contagious 😊
I think your already strong perservence will bring you Trollope. I agree totally about the Everyman library, in both iterations. I have a few of the very early ones published by Dent, however, the tiny print strains my tired old eyes.
Well this is the last thing I need, another book set to get addicted to 😂. I can imagine wanting to get every last number. Those are lovely, and very nice dust jacket descriptions! Thanks for showing, I don’t think I’ve ever seen those in person so it was helpful.
I just recently found you on CZcams and am delighted! I’ve always been intimidated by classic literature and would not approach it. Well, you’ve prodded me on and I started with The Brothers Karamazov and am loving it!
I, too, love Everyman's Library. This is a good video, but I wish you had taken off the dustjackets so that we could see what the books actually look like. Dustjackets are just protective, it's the cloth that really matters, that is really exciting. I've noticed many other people don't take dustaackets off when showing hardback books.
Man!
You keep adding more and more pearls of literary classics to my already raging, stormy sea of a reading list.
I fell in love with the idea of Proust’s masterpiece (which I’m surely going to devour one day) after watching one of your videos. And now, the way you have described it, I’m feeling myself being inclined rather strongly towards Clarissa , towards which, I must confess, my interest was rather rickety until now.
Also, I must thank you for being a guide in improving my articulation skills which have been enhanced, embellished and rendered more eloquent ever since I have started binging upon your videos, especially when one considers the fact that I come from a place where English is not the first language.
Keep up the good work, keep inspiring and being inspired. 😉
I'm glad to hear it! Clarissa and In Search of Lost Time pair well and are of similar artistic heights. It would be difficult for me to say which one I prefer, but I may just about give it to Proust :) And thank you very much for your kind words - 'enhanced, embellished and rendered more eloquent' - I love that wonderful phrasing. Your English is of an incredibly high quality and I'm happy to have you watching and reading along!
I have watched many many book collection videos on You Tube and in my opinion yours are by far the best. The information you provide is very informative and the manner in which it is presented is a joy to experience. The dialect helps (I'm a Yank) as it is the hallmark of the mother tongue as-it-were, but I think it is the thoroughness of your descriptions that I most appreciate. Please keep up the excellent work. [EDIT] I am _VERY_ judicious in my subscription allocations, but for what it may be worth to you I have just subscribed to your channel.
Thank you very much, my friend. I really appreciate such kind words :) I may have lucked out in the accent lottery for being understood internationally as mine is pretty standard for a Londoner! Thank you for subscribing, and happy reading :)
Wow! Beautiful collection. For the same reason you have eloquently expressed, I bought the 3 volume set of Everyman’s Library War and Peace. I’m currently reading Victor Hugo and my hand gets tired at times. I wish they came in volumes too.
Great content again. Cheers!
Very nice! I have that set too, and it's really gorgeous :) I wish I had a multi-volume edition of Les Misérables in English. I have the French, but I can't seem to find a multi-volume with a translation I'm happy with. That novel is a brick. It makes my hands tired too!
@@BenjaminMcEvoy Cool! I assume you’re well versed in French too. The brick of course! I wanted something that would last for years in good shape so I settled with Everyman’s Library again. Lately I’ve been trying to convince myself that I’m also working on my biceps while reading. An atonement for being sedentary, if it makes any difference lol I’m just glad to know that I’m not alone in this struggle :)
I envy you for your stunning collection, Ben! I always pause your videos and indulge in a little game of figuring out the titles that dwell on your shelves.
I am sure your admirers will welcome a complete tour through your bibliomaniac empire :D I surely will be on the edge of my seat awaiting the moment!
P.S.- Looking forward to joining the Bookclub soon. I hope I am not too late for the party!
Thank you, Kirtan :) I love that. I believe if one pauses this video, they might possibly see the likes of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Rabindranath Tagore, Walter Pater, Mary Wollstonecraft, Don DeLillo, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Lucretius, Thomas More, among a few more. I must do some tours soon, especially when I have my home library sorted. And you will be warmly welcomed to the book club! You're not too late at all, and you'll be a great member with deep insights!
I love the Everyman classic series of books. I found a few at the local library and have been addicted every since. Thanks for the thoughts.
Those are amazing!! Those covers are so my cup of tea! And, I haven’t read Clarissa. Sounds great! I can’t wait to start hunting for them for my library. I am a huge collector too. Yes. Would love to see more of your books! Exciting!📚
Thank you, Margaret :) Clarissa is tremendous. Don't let most reviewers put you off - it's exhilarating! More books 100% on the way - thanks so much for watching along!
"When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,"
And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night!
Your videos are therapeutic.
Thank you :)
I love Everyman, but most of my copies lost their dust jackets long before I bought them. You might like to try Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" in three volumes in the yellow wrappers. Not a modern view of English history, but interesting for how our understanding of the past changes. Written in a wonderful style. His descriptions of scenes are very lifelike and lively. A bit like Carlyle's, but easier to read.
"The curious bookcase of Benjamin McEvoy's tour 2021" :p, yes pls! do more of show & tell, now I wonder how many books you own🤔and when did you start collecting them😊
Thank you :) I'd love to do more. Most of my books are in storage at the moment as I prepare to move house, but a conservative estimation would be around 2,000 books (I think), which is an accumulation across my lifetime. I started collecting specific editions very recently, perhaps the last year or so because I was travelling all the time and didn't have the space for anything other than a Kindle :)
@@BenjaminMcEvoy whoa that's a lot of books!!!!!! anyway, keep up the awesome content and good luck on your moving house thing☺!
@@ronetteskiestante4064 Thank you so much :)
These and the Library of America editions are excellent. I love the fact that the books will endure. I take the dust jackets of both. I enjoy the look and feel of the cloth covers.
Your bookcase must store an amazing amount of books! Like Mary Poppins bag. Love your videos!
Thank you, Sybil :) I think I have a couple of thousand dispersed across storage. I love the Mary Poppins bag analogy :)
Brilliant….thanks Very helpful!
I have some Every Man's Library books. I am always reminded of Reclam and their universal library. They are all numbered but softcover books in a unique design.
I now feel like spending a lot of money!
Great video mate.
My job is complete :) Thank you, Shivam!
Great overview. I would suggest a video on the comparison of Everyman's, Loeb Classics, and Folio books. How do they compare in quality, pricing. Well, Loeb only publishes ancient texts, I believe, so it's a bit different in that regard.
Thank you, Imran :) Great idea. I'll do that one! Loeb most certainly needs some attention. I love Folio too on the premium end!
@@BenjaminMcEvoy Thank you, Ben. I looked out for my precious Lucretius in Everyman's but couldn't find it, did find it in Loeb, so I'll get that shortly. Also, I am waiting on Lucretius' video that you said is in process. I hope you find time to finish it. Thanks again.
Harvard Press, which publishes the Loeb Classics, also publishes two other series of books. One is the I Tatti series, which offers Latin works of the Italian Renaissance with facing translations in English. The other is the Dumbarton Oaks series which offers works from Byzantine Greek, Medieval Latin & Old English with facing English translations.
There are several series like these, & I'm saddened to see so much attention devoted to the Penguin Classics translations when other praiseworthy series (such as Everyman's) are out there & deserve at least as much attention.
I live in the States. And, I think, the main branch of our public library has a 4 volume edition of Steele and Addison in that series of Everyman. Moreover, I am a book person, and I have some old Everyman's, but different from the series you show. For some reason I don't have many from that series. The ones I have, I believe, are older and do not have covers. Thanks
Yes, the ones I used to have had no covers, but did have beautiful spines, designed, I believe, by William Morris
I love your channel, we have a lot to talk. I hope I can take one of your webinars
Fantastic video!
Hi Ben!
Just wanted to let you know, I really enjoy your videos and i follow every suggestion /recommendations that you give and soon will be joining hardcore book club. I always look forward for your next video. Keep up the good work :)
Love from New Delhi, India.
Hi Rahul :) Thank you so much. I really appreciate that, and it makes me so happy to know that you are reading along. I look forward to having you as a valuable member of the club! All best wishes, and happy reading over in New Delhi! :)
Another thing, thanks for pointing out that "Confessions.." by, of course, Dequincy was influenced by Coleridge's Kubla Khan!! Kubla Khan?? And also, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? Perhaps?? In recent years I finally caught up with the English Romantics. I read both of these poems. Now I will dig out my copy of Confessions; which is an old Penguin English library! You have have given me more inspiration to get to it. One more thing, I understand Poe's "MS In A Bottle" was influenced by "The Rime.."!! So - another link in the chain - so to speak. Thank You
I've done the same with the humble Wordsworth edition... because they're so affordable I can write marginalia and scribble all over them. I love my little collection... especially TWO copies of Middlemarch! :)
Dear Ben
I've just read Barchester Towers by Trollope, give it a go, very funny, Mr Slope is a great character. Also watch the great BBC adaption!
Thank you, Philip! You have thoroughly enthused me :) I do love the BBC adaptations of these classic works. I recently watched the 70s BBC version of Persuasion and Anna Karenina. Wonderful stuff.
When you get into Trollope, you will love him. Another great publishing video.
Interestingly, I have a two-volume Everyman edition of "Pamela". It's supposed to be abridged!! I have an old edition of Marlowe's and the complete works of Horace.
The everyman books are hands down the prettiest affordable hardbacks out there.
I completely agree!
I love these collections, you have inspired me to start collecting them. A quick question for you; will you still consider buying one without a dust jacket? I see a lot of editions online selling for affordable prices but they lack the recognizable dust jackets. I am unsure whether to invest or not.
I loved these editions. I’ve got book envy. I’ll be reading WH next October. It’s the only Brontë I haven’t read.
Book envy! I love that, and know exactly what you mean :) October is the perfect month for Wuthering Heights. We'll be reading it at the start of the new year with the book club (this is currently a secret however).
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I only have Persuasion in Everyman's Library. It is beautiful. Persuasion is my favorite Jane Austen novel.
The EL editions are slightly different in the U.S., but also nicely turned out, of superior quality. Longer works are spread over multiple volumes, and the introductions are usually first-rate. Congratulations on your recent accessions. However I now find the print too small and the leading too narrow for comfortable reading.
I estimate I've read over 3000 books in my 64 years on this planet but there are still some classics I have yet to read and one of those is Jude the Obscure which I have just started the Everyman version. I've read a lot of Hardy but for some reason I never got around to Jude until now
Do you have an opinion of Anais Nin or Margarite Duras?
You got me into collecing everyman's. They are nice, but I wish I had cheaper taste!
I'm so happy to hear that! Oh, yes, the prices can definitely start racking up!
I have restricted myself to buying only books that you insist are the most important to read deeply, Don Quixote, Persuasion, Moby Dick, Middlemarch, Wuthering Heights, Clarissa, Anna Karenina, Dickens, Emerson, Adler, Bloom...(Ulysses is my doorstop)
Didn't Everyman publish an 8 volume edition of "Clarissa"?? I have the Penguin - Angus Ross volume you mention!! Interesting point you make!!
What is appealing, is the hand-held sizing and feel which address intimately beyond the book object itself--craft and quality cannot be avoided when choosing cherished moments--Books when meaningful caress inspiring experiences...👣👁
Hii Benjamin, could you please suggest me how to buy my favourite books from Everyman library, is there any app Or website available, these are really appealing books, can i get them in India also... Plzz let me know.. God bless u😇🙏
10:42 How you worked on it?
Extensive reading and rereading :)
That’s cool and all, Mr. McEvoy - but do you have an Everyman classic edition of the play, Everyman?
😂 😂 I actually do!