/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18536017]

I am suspicious of how cheap this is. Can someone with a Wordsworth Classics book post a page from their copy?

[Anonymous No.18536027]

it would be suspicious if a Wordsworth classic wasn’t cheap you dumbass
they just have like zero notes

[Anonymous No.18536055]

The covers are hideous but the book quality is fine, it's not a crappy print-on-demand, it's a professionally formatted book and they have better spines than Penguins that look like shit after a few reads. They do often have notes btw, and that Iliad edition certainly does. It's also the Chapman translation, one of the greatest achievements of English literature.

[Anonymous No.18536058]

>>18536027
Yeah but $3 makes me suspect that the text poorly formatted or that it is otherwise poorly constructed.

[Anonymous No.18536062]

>>18536017
They are perfectly fine quality for cheap paperbacks. They're low price because they only print the most popular public domain works. Here's my Wordsworth copy of Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

>>18536027
They usually have introductions and end notes.

[Anonymous No.18536065]

>>18536055
Thank you

[Anonymous No.18536090]

Here's the first page and the corresponding first page of notes via archive.org

[Anonymous No.18536099]

Just look at the cover art op, that's the cheapness
Also the paper doesn't feel very good at all

[Anonymous No.18536106]

>>18536017
I have it, i can recommend it.

[Anonymous No.18536141]

Text is public domain and the book is cheaply made, there is no reason it should be expensive. Most Wordsworths I've read have had small text but are otherwise perfectly serviceable paperbacks

[Anonymous No.18536150]

>>18536055
Wait, they use the Chapman translation? Fuck that's actually pretty based. Have I been underrating Wordsworth all this time?

[Anonymous No.18536158]

>>18536099
Older editions have perfectly fine covers, these deliberately shitty covers are a strange new trend

[Anonymous No.18536179]

>>18536017
Wordsworth Classics are perfectly fine.
Basic, few or no notes/introduction
But the actual content, the book you want to read is there the way it should be formatted properly etc.
The cover art is of course shit but who cares?

[Anonymous No.18536298]

>>18536017
What an impractical temple
I only have the Odyssey from this publisher but that was fine, better than others I’ve had

[Anonymous No.18536469]

Wordsworth editions have tiny text. It males reading slower.

[Anonymous No.18536615]

>>18536017
The Iliad is fucking cheap gay revenge drama. There aren’t enough marines or cowboys and the wrestling doesn’t have enough stripping. I don’t even believe Achilles is gay for Patroclus. He’s gay for pay.

[Anonymous No.18536884]

>>18536017
Wordsworth cut prices by having an old translations, little to no introduction or notes and a small budget for the cover/physical binding. But the actual book itself is fine usually. I
found that sometimes the translation is too old like in their print of Dante's inferno was really hard to understand. But usually it's not too bad

[Anonymous No.18537148]

>>18536017
Why not just have a minimalistic cover with just the author's name and title instead of this atrocity?

[Anonymous No.18537188]

>>18536017
Wordsworth classic cover thread?

[Anonymous No.18537193]

Modern "Penguin Classics" are unironically worse than Wordsworth.

[Anonymous No.18537199]

They are all readable, if that's your concern. I always opt for these copies. Miss me with the overpriced prints of public-domain works!

[Anonymous No.18537202]

>>18537188
literally my diary and a photo of me on the cover desu

[Anonymous No.18537217]

>>18537193
I don’t have a single new penguin classic, I always buy copies second hand online from around 2000. Covers are usually good, if not completely unrelated. I have a penguin copy of the castle of otranto and it has a painting of lady macbeth on the cover for some reason.

[Anonymous No.18537339]

>>18537193
I'm always sceptical of penguin classics after their version of Tacitus' Annals translated 'legions' as 'divisions'. Like really, you don't think the average person knows what a legion is?

[Anonymous No.18537387]

Is this terrible? I gifted it to someone because I was abroad and couldn't find a lot of English books.

[Anonymous No.18537501]

>>18537387
I personally would be thrilled to receive it

[Anonymous No.18537521]

>>18537202
Looks like some knockoff Russian Holden Caulfield

[Anonymous No.18537533]

>>18537387
I love tcomc

[Anonymous No.18537671]

>>18537501
Swap the faces and you've got "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".
>>18537533
Me too, I was talking about the cover.

[Anonymous No.18537680]

>What's up bros, my name is Peeeewdiepie

[Anonymous No.18539211]

>>18537680

[Anonymous No.18539219]

>>18537680
It fits the tone, if not the time period.

[Anonymous No.18539221]

>>18537188
Hey hey people

[Anonymous No.18539231]

lest we forget, the classic

[Anonymous No.18539281]

Does anybody have this? I heard they corrected the grammar in this edition.

[Anonymous No.18539354]

[Anonymous No.18539363]

>>18539354
>Bane?

[Anonymous No.18539366]

[Anonymous No.18539407]

nothin personnel,kid.....

[Anonymous No.18539782]

>>18539354
>oh shit here I go killing again...

[Anonymous No.18539921]

>Tell me of this one also, dear child; what man can he be, shorter in truth by a head than Atreus' son Agamemnon, but broader, it would seem, in the chest and across the shoulders.

is homer telling manlets like menelaus to lift? even if he's jacked helen ran off with some prettyboy asian anyway, so what's the point