84 kilometers of classics
The Toronto Star takes a skeptical look at the recently released Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection — a 1,082-title collection of literature from The Iliad to modern classics. Writes reporter Jordan Heath-Rawlings: “Laid down page by page and end to end, the Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection would stretch about 84 kilometres, or about the same distance as a morning commute to downtown Toronto from Kitchener. And it can all be yours — all half a million pages of it — for the low price of $7,989.99 (all figures U.S.).” Aside from these jabs at the collection’s unwieldy volume, Heath-Rawlings discusses the real “completeness” of the collection, noting that important contemporary figures like Ernest Hemingway have been omitted due to copyright restrictions.
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