Penguin Classics Library
The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection for $7,989.99.
Cool beyond words. (Even cooler than the new apple mouse!)
Note that when they say complete, they mean complete. You get each of their three translations of the Iliad. Don’t get me wrong — I love the Iliad as much as everyone (well, except for many Diana), I’m just not sure I need another three copies.
For a much more reasonable price (and a tad more selective list) you can pick up the legendary Harvard Five-Foot Shelf of Book on Ebay. (Bartleby has them too, but I never found reading books online that pleasurable.)
August 3rd, 2005 at 9:36 am
Don’t forget about the Britannica “Great Books of the Western World” series:
http://store.britannica.com/jump.jsp?itemID=344&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C22%2C94%2C128
And it’s kind of related to the U of C, which makes it even cooler:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/excat/ideas5.html