Ten best books [antikvár]

Foreword In compiling this volume for your library the editors of The Reader's Digest have kept one question firmly before them: which of the many books condensed and published in the magaziné most deserve to be bound in permanent form? Somé of the ten books in this collection have such compelling appeal that they are still best sellers; among them are A Man Calléd Peter and The Sea Around Us. Others, such as Kon-Tikj and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are modern classics—books that will be read from generation to generation. Beyond this, all of them carry a very real stamp of approval; all of them have won the aifection of millions of our readers. These are books to be kept, but especially they are books to be read and read again, and then re-read. For each of them in its special way has a vitai quality, and thus is always fresh, always ready to spread enjoyment, information, wisdom, life. The editors know this truth at first hand, for no matter how many times in the course of preparing this volume they went over these pages the authors' unfailing magic worked, and duty was turnéd to pleasure. There are ten places to start. Which do you choose? It is our firm belief that whichever you choose you will be right. From first to last, these are books that have passed the sternest of tests—the test of time. They are books that live. The Editors