Oh goodness. So, I have been complaining recently how the books I like are never available in nice editions. Now, I have seen an edition I like: Fischer Klassik. The covers mostly are incredibly nice, and I generally like how the printing looks like. Arrr!
Since I still love lists, this is my purchasing plan *cough*
Anthology – Das komische Lesebuch
Anthology – Das Lesebuch für Genießer
Aischylos – Tragödien
Äsop – Fabeln
Grimm – Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Buddha – Reden
Busch – Das große Lesebuch
Cervantes – Don Quixote
Dostojewskij – Verbrechen und Strafe
Dostojewskij – Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch
Dostojewskij – Die Brüder Karamasow
Fontane – Effi Briest
Goethe – Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Gogol – Die toten Seelen (I have always wanted to read this!)
Hoffmann – Der Sandmann / Das Fräulein von Scuderi (The Sandman is amazing)
Ibsen – Nora oder Ein Puppenheim / Hedda Gabler (They chose Ibsen’s two best plays in my opinion)
Knigge – Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Konfuzius – Gespräche
Laclos – Schlimme Liebschaften (This is a translation by Heinrich Mann – this is so intriguing! I was actually planning to ignore all the french and english books, but this one sounds so nice.)
Mann – Der Untertan (I have this book, but the cover is so incredibly great)
Marx – Das große Lesebuch (I looked into this book and I have liked the selection quite a lot.)
Morgenstern – Galgenlieder
Nietzsche – Also sprach Zarathustra
Platon – Symposion / Phaidros
Schiller – Die Räuber / Kabale und Liebe
Schopenhauer – Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit
Sophokles – Antigone / König Ödipus
Tschechow – Drei Schwestern und andere Dramen (Actually this is a collection of
Wedekind – Lulu / Frühlings Erwachen (Of course, these are his best works.)
For the majority of the authors I like (Wedekind, Ibsen, E.T.A. Hoffmann etc.), they really managed to chose their best work. However, Schnitzler is only in the series with his “Traumnovelle” and Thomas Mann with “Der Tod in Venedig”. Even then, they are going to make me so poor!
I really like how they chose a Stuck peinture for the cover of the Wedekind plays, as he was a friend of Wedekind, I think.
Hm, your bookshelves are going to be even more interesting than they already are after you have purchased all of those editions.
13 Euros is way too much for Crime and Punishment! Ah, I will introduce you into the wonderful world of used books one day.
Not if it looks that great. :P
My used “The Good Soldier Švejk” however, really looks great.
Oh, these books are totally worth their money. But it’s true, books really are expensive in Germany. It’s the exact opposite with DVDs. (Too bad that Amazon.de is in a high price phase again now. Most DVDs I want are over 8 euro.)
Even used books are really expensive in Europe, most of the times they actually cost even more than new… Such is life!
I am willing to buy english books only if it originally was in english. Well, I also accept a really good translation. (Like “A Void/La Disparition“) And I also accept it if it’s a book I really want and the price is cheap and the book looks really good :3 Aside from that, you’ve made me really excited about used book stores already *_*
@Pixelmatsch: Your Schweijk is great indeed, hehehe. You should finish reading it!