You have just been convicted by the governemnt for engaging in seditious activity and sentenced to exile on a desert island for the remainder of your life.
However, the government has generously allowed you to bring with you 10 books (or book collections) to wile away your years in exile. The government applies the sentencing rules very legalistically. You can only count a book collection as one item if it is actually published as a set. So take advantage of the loophole!
What choices would you make?
Here are my choices:
- King James Bible
- Shakespeare, Collected Works
- James Joyce, Ulysses
- George Orwell, Collected Essays
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
- Tolstoy, War and Peace
- John Dos Passos, USA Trilogy
- Melville, Moby Dick
- Whitman, Leaves of Grass