How did this survive the earthquake?

You tube music has dozens of collections of “Classics for Reading” or something similar.

University of California owns all the original Twain manuscripts and periodically print a special, high quality edition. I have Huckleberry Finn, beautifully bound, thick paper and great etchings. I also have a boxed edition of LOTR with all of Tolkien's watercolors.

Agree with all of this. Built in footnotes are great, Clif Notes are not. The sentence structures are weird, but it's just like learning any other language and you've already learned two, so you'll pick it up. Watch the movies or even a live play knowing that they are not verbatim readings. Movies, especially, edit out stuff and rearrange stuff.

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Yeah, me too.