As a general rule, we prefer to choose our daily excerpt from books that either Castalia Library or Castalia House publishes, a list that is growing rapidly thanks to all of the various translations that we’ve been publishing.
So, here is a chance to throw out your idea for what book we should publish an excerpt next. Perhaps Machiavelli’s History of Florence? Or perhaps Sense and Sensibility? I find it difficult to imagine that anyone is interested in 795, which is all of the translated waka from The Tale of Genji, which strikes me as a long and brutal slog for those uninterested in poems about the transience of life and love rife with allusions to various things in nature, but stranger things have happened.
Share your thoughts in the comments, and I’ll put together a poll this week.
Bindery update: we’ve begun binding The Everlasting Man as well as History of Florence. And we should be receiving both Homers for binding soon.
The Promethean or The Missionaries
Any Machiavelli