Monday, May 6, 2019

DEL PRADO MINIATURE CLASSICS LIBRARY

(Del Prado amidst other Tiny Books)

I'm enchanted to include the Del Prado Miniature Classics Library in my Tiny Books Library.  Between 2003-04, Del Prado produced this collection that consists of 101 books sized at 67mm x 52mm (2.64" x 2.05"). 

Here's entire list below (titles with a dash before them mean they're in more than one volume).

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 
All for Love, John Dryden 
An Old Maid, Honore de Balzac 
A Season in Hell, Illuminations, Poems, Last lines, Arthur Rimbaud 
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Laurence Sterne 
A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle 
Bartleby the Scrivener – Benito Cereno, Herman Melville 
Beowulf 
Bucolics, The Georgics, Virgil 
Candide, Voltaire
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey
Discourse on the Method, Rene Descartes
-Endymion I, John Keats 
-Endymion II, John Keats 
Eves Diary – Extracts from Adams Diary, Mark Twain 
Fables, Aesop 
-Frankenstein I, Mary Shelley
-Frankenstein 2, Mary Shelley
From London to Lands End, Daniel Defoe
Gulliver’s Travels: Part 1 A Voyage to Lilliput, Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 
Heroides, Ovid 
In Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson 
In Praise of Folly, Erasmus of Rotterdam 
-Leaves of Grass (Selection) I, Walt Whitman
-Leaves of Grass (Selection) II, Walt Whitman
Life is a Dream, Pedro Calderon de la Barca 
Macbeth, William Shakespeare 
Maggie A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane 
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
-Odyssey I, Homer 
-Odyssey II, Homer 
Oedipus Rex – Antigone, Sophocles 
-Paradise Lost I, John Milton
-Paradise Lost II, John Milton
Prometheous Unbound, Percy B. Shelley 
-Persuasion I, Jane Austen
-Persuasion II, Jane Austen
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
Round The Moon, Jules Verne 
Selected Poetry, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
Selected Poetry, Emily Dickinson
Selected Poetry, John Donne 
Selected Poems, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
Selected Poetry, William Wordsworth 
Selected Tales, Anton Chekhov 
Selected Tales, E.T.A Hoffmann
Selected Tales - Shorter Prose Pieces, Oscar Wilde 
-Silas Marner I, George Eliot 
-Silas Marner II, George Eliot 
Sonnets, William Shakespeare 
South Sea Tales, Jack London 
Taras Bulba, Nikolay Gogol
-Tales from the Alhambra I, Washington Irving 
-Tales from the Alhambra II, Washington Irving
Tartuffe, Moliere 
The Adventures of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie 
-The Bride of Lammermoor I, Walter Scott 
-The Bride of Lammermoor II, Walter Scott 
-The Canterbury Tales I, Geoffrey Chaucer 
-The Canterbury Tales II, Geoffrey Chaucer 
-The Canterbury Tales III, Geoffrey Chaucer 
-The Canzoniere I, Petrarch 
-The Canzoniere II, Petrarch
The Corsair, Lord Byron 
The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy 
-The Divine Comedy – Paradise, Dante Alighieri 
-The Divine Comedy – Pugatory, Dante Alighieri 
-The Divine Comedy – Hell, Dante Alighieri 
The Fall of the House of Usher & Other Stories, Edgar Allan Poe 
The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield 
The Guilty River, Wilkie Collins
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde 
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka 
-The Prince and the Pauper I, Mark Twain 
-The Prince and the Pauper II, Mark Twain 
The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli 
-The Scarlet Letter I, Nathaniel Hawthorne 
-The Scarlet Letter II, Nathaniel Hawthorne 
The School for Husbands – The School for Wives, Moliere 
The Seagull, Anton Chekhov 
The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau 
The Sonnets to Orpheus – Selected Poems, Rainer Maria Rilke 
The Son’s Veto and Other Stories, Thomas Hardy 
The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd 
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Time Machine, H G Wells 

The Tragical History of Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe 
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James 
The Yellow Plush Papers, William Makepeace Thackeray
-Thoughts I, Blaise Pascal 
-Thoughts II, Blaise Pascal 
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 
Utopia, Thomas More 
William Tell, Friedrich von Schiller 







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(Some titles have multiple copies--an offshoot of having 
to acquire some books in tandem with others.)


2 comments:

  1. I HAVE TWO SETS OF THESE IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN BUYING THEM

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  2. Dear Unknown--but how do folks contact you?

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