The complete works of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare, George Long Duyckinck, Alexander Chalmers, Edward A. Barnes, Orlando Fleming Barnes
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You cannot walk into Barnes and Noble and take a copy of Penguin Publishings' The Complete Works of William Shakespeare off of the shelf and walk out with it without paying just because the work is in the public domain (Note: lets not get into the digital vs. physical depriving anyone of content argument for the 10000th…
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You're right, it's a pretty damn non-ideal list. Another problem is that some of the "books" are vast. I really have to read the whole goddamn Bible plus the complete works of William Shakespeare? But that's okay. My goal isn't to read one hundred books I'll really like, it's to complete an arbitrary set of tasks. If all of the books are enjoyable then there's no sense of achievement when I get…
on “Harvard Classics Bookshelf” ↗…reading. - People who conduct all of their Zoom meetings in front of said bookshelf. - People who make recommendations to others about how they should read such great works of Western Canon, e.g. the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, despite themselves having never read anything of Shakespeare beyond the required Romeo and Juliet in high-school.
on “Love the smell of old books? This bookseller would like you to leave” ↗…something doesn't engage me, so I might fail a pop quiz on something I did read once. >People who make recommendations to others about how they should read such great works of Western Canon, e.g. the Complete Works of William Shakespeare The problem with Shakespeare's plays is that they're written in a foreign language, and it's often inflicted on people without even acknowledging that let alone trying to help them understand it. I…
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