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Anonymous Tue Jan 14 19:52:02 2020 No.14538132 [View]
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Am I supposed to read these sorta things first or after?
I just acquired a Oxford Worlds Classics copy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for like a dollar secondhand. Absolutely bargain, so I'm not complaining.
There's about 40-50 pages of Introductions, notes of the text, appendices and explanatory notes, for only a couple hundred pages of actual story.
Don't get me wrong I understand the motivation, but do they expect me to read all that before I start the book? And the 3 appendices after? Or is only for people who have read and are now studying the book?

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