Penguin books "GReat Ideas"

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OK i just discovered these books and I love them! they are beautifully designed which is fulfils my top criteria, they make you weant to buy them (well most of them). I am reading Orwells "Why I Write" and I am really into. I love having short small books to pick up and carry aorund, especially as my attention span declines.

Is anyone else into these? Are small selected-writings sort of pocket books a good model fro the publishing industry? Any gripes about who they selected for "the canon"?

just interested in your thoughts

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

These sound great but I know nothing about them. Still, small books are underappreciated these days.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 February 2005 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry if its a bit uk centric

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 26 February 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i just bought On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer - it is, indeed very lovely but i haven't read it yet.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a few of these (niezsche, 'why I am so wise'; rousseau, 'the social contract'; 'the communist manifesto'). they're ok. £3 in fopp and just long enough to read on the 3hr megabus = ideal.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

better than some magazines!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but lacking on the celebrity gossip angle.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I got given the Hazlitt book, which was pretty good. I think some of the listed books are slightly dubious, particularly the Schopenauer and Ruskin choices. A good idea, though.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

penguin 70!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

has anyone seen these books?

£1.50

the box set.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

so uh i bought ten of those today

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

of the 70s. actually i will start a new thread bcz i will probably come to this one when i find the great ideas on offer somewhere.

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

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