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Oh you'll enjoy 'I, Claudius'. Marvel at how little human nature has changed in 2000 years...:( I haven't read 'The White Goddess' yet. Next for me is 'Wife to Mr. Milton' which, if Graves's introduction is anything to go by, will be fascinating. He seemed to have a real knack for finding...

Time to get a new girlfriend....:D

Abebooks.com lists first editions (London, Victor Gollancz) at anything from £100 to over £600 depending on condition. But that's retail. If you wanted to sell it privately you might expect to be offered less. Unless you sell it at a specialist auction maybe?

I went into Waterstones the other week - only because I had one of their book vouchers to spend, normally I wouldn't shop there. I had in mind a single-volume edition of 'I, Claudius' and 'Claudius the God', if such a thing exists. I knew I wasn't going to have much luck when I asked the...

It is interesting that of the six people who have posted on this thread (apart from me - I'm number 7!), only one is from England; one might have expected more replies from the country that inspired the stories! However, it is good to know that it is not just the English who like English...

Which ones would those be then? I wasn't aware that any of them was specifically written for 'girls' to read.

No - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Pride & Prejudice' most certainly are NOT for a start.

I use a bacon sandwich. No, only kidding. But I did read somewhere once that they found one used as a bookmark in a library book that had been returned. Yuk! And a waste of a good sandwich...

Ivan Denisovich. Although strictly speaking he's not a fictional character.

'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston' by Siegfried Sassoon. Essentially his autobiography, but about the only person in it whose name has not been changed is Dr. Rivers. It's not all about WWI, but it's worth reading the whole thing (it was originally published as a trilogy), as it paints a...

You mean people actually collect books as objects? That's a bit like collecting paintings and never looking at them! I can't get excited about first editions myself - I buy books to read, whether a pristine first edition or a battered paperback copy for 50 pence. I did buy one recently -...

Covers, schmuvers...it's all a cynical marketing ploy. "Oooo, I must have a copy with each cover...and the complete boxed set edition...and a copy of all the paperback editions...and the DVDs...and the boxed set DVDs...and the special limited edition...blah blah blah..." No wonder JKR is rich...

Write in bigger letters? I'll get my coat...

Good point - I hadn't thought of that.

Guess what? They didn't show that bit. They must have edited it out - can't have Madeley's 'golden boy' image tarnished in any way, can we? :D :D :D

Hmmm..."didn't do anything, go anywhere". Contentious. And she certainly travelled a lot in her mind! But you're right. 'Wuthering Heights' may be many things, but overrated is not one of them.

This thread is odd...if (say) someone claims that ALL of Dickens' works are overrated, and we assume that person has read them all, then why did he or she bother? If you read one, or a few, and found them all equally tiresome, why 'beat yourself up' reading the rest? I wouldn't. Worse still...

They've obviously never read any Shakespeare then :)

"When it's written in play form" - iambic pentameter? Rhyming couplets? Or plain speech? You get all three in Shakespeare's works. They are written in 'play form' (whatever you mean by that) because they are, er....PLAYS. For performance in a theatre. You can read them, even enjoy reading them...

Hahaha - that's a laugh. "Good morning class, today we will be studying 'The Gulag Archipelago' " Or Cancer Ward Or One Day in the Life... Or 1984