Bartok and Kodaly go out on the road, transcribing folk material. Beethoven writes variations on the English National Anthem. Stravinsky lifts the opening melody of The Rite of Spring from a collection of Russian folk tunes. On the other hand, who would have thought that Ben Stiller’s movie remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty would triple sales of the LOA’s James Thurber edition.One of the things non-musicians find difficult is the attitude of serious composers to tunes. (I do not own numbers 4, 6, and 9 - though they are not on my Wish List either.)Īs explanation Publishing Perspectives adds: “On the Library of America’s blog, Reader’s Almanac, they note that is probably no surprise that the debut volume of the LOA’s edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s collected fiction was the best-selling title of 2013. The Collected Plays of Tennessee Williams
James Thurber: Writings and Drawings *ġ3. Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels [1999 #8)ġ1. American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau ġ0. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America *ĩ. Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 Ģ.
Here’s a listing (via Publishing Perspectives) of their top sellers for 2013: following each entry are the year the volume was first published as well as its 2012 ranking.ġ. I subscribed to the book club early on until my Donnelley rep pointed out that they printed the books and always ended up with a couple of samples in the office! I’ve been buying them of recent years, mostly from Amazon, but I do protest that I will often buy one when I’m in an independent bookstore. The unjacketed Hawthorne volume in the picture is the slip-cased book club edition. The works of any one author are bound consistently in one of those colors. They cycle through four cloth colors: green, blue, maroon and brown. Library of America (our Pléiade) makes a nice book: printed on good paper, smith sewn in a case made with Brillianta, with a ribbon marker and printed ends.
They are the only books in my “library” that I shelve together and in alphabetical order.
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