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Re: That's so sad! DomA Send a noteboard - 13/01/2010 02:24:53 PM
I searched for la Pléiade but the interface was confusing at the few sites that advertised them. Would I pay $80-$120 for a good book by a great author? Yes. But how do I search for them? It doesn't look like Amazon carries them.


Oh, they do, search for Camus, Pléiade and all volumes come up. No good French bookstore won't carry them this year!

They did an edition of just his plays and essays back then, but it's been replaced recently by his complete works in four volumes (also available in two boxed sets, a tad cheaper than buying them all seperately). You'll need to find out in which volume is La Peste, though - Gallimard's website would be the best place for that.

It's a bit strange to buy a single volume out of a Pléiade series, though. :) Pléiade is valued most of all for the quality of its critical material and notes, and most of those essays will be found in volumes 1 and 4.

FYI, Pléiade have ultra-thin high quality paper, soft leather covers, real gold lettering, with a transparent dust jacket. They come in a protective box. The look hasn't changed since the beginning of the collection (mid XIXth century). Only the colour of the leather varies (coded according to the period the author is from).

They're lovely books, but I rarely bought any fiction in that collection, especially that Gallimard reprises the critical material specific to each novel in its Folio paperbacks.
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Re: They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. - 13/01/2010 02:36:35 PM 630 Views
Re: That's so sad! - 13/01/2010 02:24:53 PM 776 Views
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