The Traveling Library

The insanity which claims me manifests within the leather luggage heirloom with a map of the world printed on its skin. It is my traveling, growing, heavy, ambitious library. And this is what it contains:
italics: read; bold: unread; plain text: currently reading; underlined: partially read
  • The Portable Poe edited by Philip Van Doren Stern, in English
  • Poe: Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires, translated into the French by Charles Beaudelaire
  • Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology edited by Louis Simpson
  • The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty by Gary Brent Madison
  • On Suffering by Gary Brent Madison
  • L'Oeil et L'Esprit by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Phenomenologie de la Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre 
  • Romans & Contes de Voltaire, edition nationale de 194, en Francais
  • Selected Essays of Montaigne edited by Lester G. Crocker in English
  • Le Horla et Autre Contes Fantastiques by Guy de Maupassant
  • Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery in both English and French
  • La Garconne by Victor Margueritte
  • La Mare au Diable by George Sand
  • La Petite Fadette by George Sand
  • Les Carnets de Malte Laurids Brigge
    by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Orlando by Virginia Woolf in both English and French
  • My Life in France by Julia Child
  • Fiction in the Archives by Natalie Zemon Davis
  • In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee
  • Grendel by John Gardner
  • Sept Contes Gothiques by Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen (in French)
  • Last Tales by Isak Dinesen
  • The Basic Kafka
  • a mini french-english dictionary and a guide to grammar

I know, I know, who travels like this?


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