Classics

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
A Room With a View E.M. Forster
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
The Canterbury Tales Chaucer
The Dead  James Joyce
Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir John Gunther
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Hamlet edited by A. R. Braunmuller
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Madame Bovary  Gustav Flaubert
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson
The Sea Wolf Jack London
Three Sisters Anton Chekov
The Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss
The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers  Henry James
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Weight: 14 lbs
Method of Disposal: Donating

It is always hard to let the classics go, but I am fairly certain that I have multiple copies of all of them, and I need to cut it out.  I also feel comfortable buying them for next to nothing or getting them for free on kindle seeing as I have bought them so many times and the authors are no longer around.  So, I am going to suck it up and let go of most of my classics as I find them and replace them with Kindle editions in the interest or reclaiming space in my home.  Let's hope the government or Amazon does not decide we shouldn't read anymore and erases all the books instead of burning them.  Trump likely would if he found a way to.

Also, I am counting The Unbearable Lightness of Being as a classic and an actual true life Prepaid Phone Card for calls within the U.S. fell out of the Emily Dickinson collection.  Thank goodness for cellphones and Skype for that reason at least!

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Volume 1 and 2
1960
Weight: 4 lbs
Method of Disposal: Leaving at Joe's in East Atlanta on the "Friends of EA Library Book Cart"

My grandparents picked these books up for me at an estate sale fairly recently.  They have a great old book smell and yellowing pages.  I find them charming for those reasons alone.  They have very small print that is set up much like a Bible might be but without the super fine pages that I remember kids in high school smoking pot with.  These pages would never work for that!

I feel guilty about letting them go after such a short stay in my home, but I need to keep my eye on the prize, as they say, and I am not in need of more Shakespeare right now.  I have plenty of it to get rid of without adding more of the complete works.

I really did appreciate the gift and made sure to enjoy them for a short time before leaving them in a coffee shop.  Either way, they will be passed on, yet again, and they will make some new person happy.  I love books.