Alright /lit/, I'm not a regular on here, nor am I a native

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Alright /lit/,

I'm not a regular on here, nor am I a native English speaker so please excuse me for my illiteracy.


There are some cold winter months coming up soon so I decided to stock up on some great books that can get me through the darkest of months.

I already have quite an extensive library with a few very rare first editions but I feel the need to spice it up a bit with ancient Greek philosophy.
These do not necessarily need to be rare editions or high quality versions. I will settle with paperbacks if I have to.

I have already bought 3 books so far;
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Since I am very fond of classics and philosophy, essentially books that have the ability to have me drift off into deep thought and consideration, I have selected the following books to add to my library;

- Politika by Aristotle
- Meno by Plato
- Euthyphro by Plato
- Republika by Plato
- De la Démocracy en Amérique by Alexis de Tocqueville

Yet when I go online looking to buy them I come across countless of versions at vastly different prices.
So my question to you is which versions are basically the best translations and/or versions?

Languages I can easily read in:
- Dutch
- French
- English
- German

For those of you wondering about the rare books, I will list only 2 of them.
- An 1858 first edition of Batavia by Hendrik Conscience
- A 1922 first mini pocket edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

I will only list the others when asked for it.

Thank you for helping me in advance. I am looking forward of learning more.