on collections

20% off sale at half-price books, three locations, and $50 later here is what i came away with. SO stoked that i'm building up my library :) i can't wait to read all of this. hopefully i will put a big dent in this list in 2010.

aristotle
the politics

the nicomachean ethics


nietzsche
the birth of tragedy and the genealogy of morals

henrik ibsen
hedda gabler
a doll's house

richard brinsley sheridan
the school for scandal

george bernard shaw
heartbreak house
arms and the man
pygmalion

arthur schnitzler
hands around


jean racine
phedre


eugene o'neill
beyond the horizon

c.s. lewis
miracles: a preliminary study

aristophanes
the complete plays

saint augustine
confessions

j.m. synge
the playboy of the western world and riders to the sea


tom stoppard
travesties

voltaire
philosophical letters

william congreve
the way of the world

anton chekhov
the three sisters

euripides
medea
the bacchae


aeschylus
the oresteia trilogy (two different translations)

william shakespeare
hamlet
julius caesar
macbeth
the taming of the shrew
a midsummer night's dream
othello
the sonnets

beowulf

heroes and monsters of greek myth

homer
the odyssey

massie
augustus

petronius
the satyricon

dante alighieri
inferno

hans anderson
fairy tales and legends

tennessee williams
the glass menagerie

moliere
the misanthrophe

oscar wilde
the importance of being earnest

virgil
the aeneid

wheelock's latin (a textbook! for $5.50!)

gabriel garcia marquez
one hundred years of solitude

sophocles
oedipus the king

an anthology of greek drama

the empiricists
(including locke, berkeley, hume)

five greek tragedies
(sophocles, euripides, aeschylus)

immortal poems of the english language
(shakespeare, milton, keats, eliot, years, hopkins, donne, tennyson, whitman, frost)

eight great tragedies
(aeschylus, sophocles, euripides, shakespeare, ibsen, strindberg, yeats, o'neill)

the best american non-required reading, 2008

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