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.
Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I.
11/01/2010 02:34:47 AM
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I doubt it quite the same ways that book seems to have for you
11/01/2010 03:43:37 AM
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"Invitation to a Beheading" is the translated title *NM*
11/01/2010 03:55:06 AM
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Ah, I was wondering if it might be that one (obviously, I know very little Russian)
11/01/2010 04:04:14 AM
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I liked 1776.
11/01/2010 04:00:03 AM
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Re: I liked 1776 and try The Johnstown Flood. One of my best reads for last year *NM*
11/01/2010 03:33:24 PM
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The Plague might disappoint you.
11/01/2010 06:31:54 AM
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I was suspecting that: I studied some other Camus in school, but not that one.
11/01/2010 09:02:04 AM
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Well, then I'd have to buy it in French, and that gets me back to my old problem:
11/01/2010 01:42:35 PM
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Y'a pas de bonnes bibliothèques avec une section "Langues Étrangères" à New York?
11/01/2010 02:11:33 PM
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I'm too lazy to respond in French.
11/01/2010 02:37:41 PM
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Looks like you win. Can't find it on fnac.com either.
11/01/2010 02:55:10 PM
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I just can't justify buying a book I would want to keep in paperback.
11/01/2010 03:53:06 PM
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I would have thought "it's not available in hardback" was a good justification... *NM*
11/01/2010 03:55:56 PM
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Not for a book that I am sure is in hardcover somewhere...
11/01/2010 03:59:08 PM
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Are you sure it's in hardcover somewhere? *NM*
11/01/2010 04:00:54 PM
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It's a classic. How could it not be?
11/01/2010 04:03:07 PM
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Why would one do a new edition of a book that old - and that short - in hardcover?
11/01/2010 05:00:04 PM
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Because it's a classic.
11/01/2010 05:06:51 PM
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Book culture is different in France.
12/01/2010 07:06:17 PM
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That's so sad!
12/01/2010 11:27:37 PM
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Re: That's so sad!
13/01/2010 02:24:53 PM
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Can you let me know what you think of 1776?
11/01/2010 09:13:58 AM
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Oh, and regarding another of your points
11/01/2010 02:49:26 PM
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Re: Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I.
11/01/2010 11:32:53 AM
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I have a lot more on my "to read one day" list, but I don't want to read them all in one year.
11/01/2010 01:46:59 PM
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I assumed you would have... I just didn't have anything more interesting to say *NM*
11/01/2010 02:59:30 PM
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