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Re: They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. DomA Send a noteboard - 13/01/2010 02:36:35 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.


130 euro plus shipping costs means it'll be probably over 200 USD.


That's for two volumes in a boxed set. They're also available individually.

Might be cheaper to buy them from a Canadian chain like Indigo or Renaud-Bray.

Mind you, the new edition is chronological, so each volume will have a mix of novels, plays, novellas, essays, letters etc. There's not much point in buying just one, and not much point in buying them at all unless one is a finished maniac of Camus... Usually, the point of buying a Pléiade is to go beyond what's available in Folio! ;)

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