PIL presented us with an enormous card board box containing at least 30 hardback volumes of 'The Waverley Novels' which they'd found at a car boot sale. Not a first edition (these are published in 1896). They've been gathering dust for 6 months - I have an era der full of 20th and 21st century literary fiction and haven't mustered the interest to read them.
We live in Germany, and in a very rural non cosmopolitan location, so charity shops are going to have no use for 120 year old books in English....
But they are 120 years old...
I can't just chuck them in the paper recycling!
Are they worth anything - condition is only "fair"...
Should I force myself to read them - will I find I enjoy them? I'm more Cory Doctorow or Kazuo Ishiguro or Peter Cary or Ian Banks inclined normally!
Anyone read them? A quick glance suggested they haven't aged the wayHardy and Austin have - or am I wrong?
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MrTumblesBavarianFanbase · 20/04/2015 13:35
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