Sunday, November 22, 2020

And the winner is... (Classics Club Spin #25)

 


...John Stuart Mill's Autobiography. Now I get to discover why starting Latin at age 13 was too late, too late! But I am looking forward to it.


Nowadays I probably would have just read this from Project Gutenberg, especially since this Kessinger reprint doesn't have any notes or anything, but since I have this print copy...

Time to put all those other books back on the shelf so I can find them in the future:

Did you get something good?

7 comments:

  1. i didn't even know he wrote an autobio... i'd definitely like to get my sticky hands on it, tho...

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    1. It is now on Gutenberg--I don't think it was when I bought my copy--so it's easily enough done.

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  2. I'm glad to hear that you're looking forward to it. And I'm glad you'll be reading it and not me. 😉 I'll await your review of it until I consider putting on my TBR.

    I spun Hesiod Works and Days. I didn't expect to get it but I'm fine with it.

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    1. I am looking forward to it! It is fairly short & not proper philosophy, though I have read other of his philosophical works, and he writes fairly lucidly for a philosopher...

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  3. How ironic that you did all that work, pulling copies off a shelf, and then landed on the short one, and one you could have opted to read online instead! LOL

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    1. Ah, well, it's always fun browsing the bookshelves anyway...so many books...

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