An Analytic Bibliography of Classic Literature

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Recent efforts by the Internet Archive, Google and others have made numerous editions of classic books available online to the general public. What edition should I read? has always been a practical question, but with these efforts, the answer is now more complex. For example, readers of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism could choose to read one or all of the first, second, third or fourth editions of book published during Mill's lifetime, or perhaps a scolarly edition, or even search out the original publication in Fraser's Magazine. So which edition to read? In part, the present book aims to help readers answer this question by creating an analytic bibliography of classic literature. We take a wide view of the term classic. We're not, or course, merely concerned with works from the Greek and Latin period and culture, but rather with any first rate work.

Some questions we hope to answer for each work include: