complete or collected works by .....

[mikeweil]

I had to rearrange the bookshelves in one room during the last two weeks, all fiction, and noticed that I own the complete or collected works, some in single volumes, some in boxed editions, of many more authors than I thought.

Now I became curious about what complete works other members might have.

Here are mine, sorted by languages (I don not pretend I have read through all of this!):

German:

Jean Paul

Ernst Theodor Amadée Hoffmann

Wilhelm Hauff

Johann Heinrich Zschokke

Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)

Friedrich Hölderlin

Ernst Weiss

Hermann Hesse

Leo Perutz

Fritz von Herzmanowsky-Orlando

H. C. Artmann

Erich Fried

English/American:

William Shakespeare

Daniel Defoe

Oscar Wilde

Dylan Thomas

D.H. Lawrence

Joseph Conrad

Malcolm Lowry

Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Twain

Dashiell Hammett

Raymond Chandler

Carl Barks

French:

Gustave Flaubert

Raymond Queneau

Raymond Roussell

Julien Gracq

Italian:

Luigi Pirandello

Andrea de Carlo

Spanish/Latin American:

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Jorge Luis Borges

Julio Cortázar

José Lezama Lima

Alejo Carpentier

Slavic:

Vladimir Majakovskij

Velimir Chlebnikov

Mircea Eliade

I hope I will grow old enough to read all of this .....

[Chuck Nessa]

I hope I will grow old enough to read all of this .....

Already too late. It might be possible to get through the words but the ideas will bog you down.

Better to go back to arranging the library.

I would file by "philosophy type" then by era (or alpha).

YMMV.

[Jazzmoose]

Man, you kicked my butt...all I can list is Dashiell Hammett, Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain.

Carl Barks??? Aren't you ducking the issue here?

[Quincy]

Harper Lee.

Wait. Never mind, that was my mom's copy.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Not many and, as with music, mostly people who didn't write much

Shakespeare

Lewis Carroll (not the maths!)

Patience Sonko-Godwin (West African historian)

Thomas Beckford (Gothic horror)

Peter Ratazzi (travel writer)

MG

[mikeweil]

I hope I will grow old enough to read all of this .....

Already too late. It might be possible to get through the words but the ideas will bog you down.

There's always hope!

Better to go back to arranging the library.

Done already!

Next are the music books shelves as I gained some space there ......

[mikeweil]

Carl Barks??? Aren't you ducking the issue here?

No kidding! I have the single volumes Gladstone edition and love it!

[mikeweil]

Lewis Carroll (not the maths!)

Thomas Beckford (Gothic horror)

I forgot Lewis Carroll!

I have some William Beckford ?!?! Any relation?

[paul secor]

Seems like there's a seed for a new thread here:

Why do we collect all these books?

It'll just have to wait until we solve the music addiction thing first.

[rostasi]

There's no such thing as "(re)arrange the bookshelves" around this place.

They, like the music, are random.

[mikeweil]

Why do we collect all these books?

That'a what I asked myself all the while - but, as with CDs, no cure in sight!

[mikeweil]

There's no such thing as "(re)arrange the bookshelves" around this place.

They, like the music, are random.

So, how are chances you buy doubles?

[rostasi]

very small...but I've been known to replace copies that are really worn

and still keep the first copy - usually because of a signature or some other personal connection.