/lit/ - Literature

Nice pair of tits fits anywhere

>>12260796
based wodsworth

>look up cover of book about Raffaello Sanzio, the painter
>it's got a picture of The School of Athens
Ok, fair enough. Artists can be represented by their works.
>look up cover of Plato's Republic
>it's a closeup of The School of Athens
>look up cover of Aristotle's Metaphysics
>it's a slightly different closeup of a cover of The School of Athens
Why the fuck would somebody use a Renaissance era fresco depicting an imaginary scene set in a fictionalized version of Plato's Academy to illustrate the works of two Greek philosophers, when it would make more sense to use something like a statue of the goddess Dike as a representation of the concept of justice or a drawing of the shipping dock at Piraeus for Plato's Republic, or some kind of computer-drawn 3D model of a human face as a representation of the concept of "essence" for Aristotle's Metaphysics?

>>12260796
Who even runs Wordsworth? Some quirky English guy in his 60s, I figure?

>>12260914
penguin classics probably has to stick to paintings to keep consistent. do they feature sculpture or photographs on their books?

totally in agreement with you by the way, this kind of shit is rampant everywhere
>television show set in chicago
>principal photography in new york city

>>12260950

Penguin Classics use photographs for a lot of non-fiction and sculptures for a lot of Ancient stuff.

>>12260914
VERY Fast Aristotle Thinking at Incredible Hihg Speed

>>12260922
these guys.

>>12261667
is this what Kahneman meant

>tfw own 5 Wordsworth on my shelf and noone wants to buy them
Do I just burn them? The font is too small anyway so I won't read them.

>>12261848
>is a book company
>can’t type a proper sentence

>>12261848
Fuckkkk I thought that was David Irving and got so excited

>>12261667
>it's real

>>12260914
>fictionalized version of Plato's Academy
>two
Several thinkers in the painting aren't platonists
philosophers from the presocratic to the Hellenistic eras are also there, pic related.
>Dike
Statues of Apollo and Athena are also seen in the full painting, deities of beauty & arts and wisdom & crafts.

Unlike much later philosophers, we don't have any photos of these ancient thinkers, so editors use famous statues and paintings of them, same goes with other historical figures.
The point is that such depictions are famous, English speakers will recognize them, unlike Dike, whatever reconstruction of what the Pireus might've looked like, or abstractions.
When marketing a videogame or film to an English-speaking audience, you have to show the characters in the posters and DVD covers.

>>12261852
Wordsworth is fine for English language stuff. Their translations can be dodgy, but they have Tolstoy in Maude and the Garnett Dostoevsky. Only pseuds and plebs don't like them

>>12260796
>hurr painting can't be used by more than one publisher
You're a dumbass. I see this all the time.

>>12260796

Adapt, improvise, overcome.

>>12260950
Yes, they use photos a lot for pre-modern stuff. For example, their dead sea scrolls editions are photos of a manuscript, or the copper scroll for the latest edition.

>>12261848
kek
It’s hard to hate them
their covers are ugly
maybe I’ll write to them, confront them
/lit/ would produce better covers

>>12262582
No! Their covers are masterpieces of unintentional comedy. Don't spoil the fun.

does anyone have the chad wodwworth meme

>>12263182
Ok
Do you know if the print is tiny or if their texts are easy to read?

>>12261861
Whoever wrote that is just operating at a higher level of syntax, fusing two ideas into one by using 'offer' once instead of twice consecutively.

>>12263292
or they deleted is and forgot to delete that

>>12260796
Hehe
>>12256292

>>12263203
Basically the same as penguin

>>12261861
No, you’re just a moron.

>>12263820
Try reading the sentence again you fucking mongoloid

>>12263882
>mongoloid

lol, do you actually say this? what is this the 1950s? why do i even come to this website

>>12261848
Cute and wholesome.

I love Wordsworth Editions now.

So good.

>>12263820
no, it's a grammatically incorrect sentence.

>>12264266
t. A human mongoloid head, i.e. Downsyndrome because their heads look asiatic like fucking mongoloids

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

>>12264527
Amazing colour scheme.

>>12264266
people use mongoloid you fucking cretin, what is wrong with you?

The only Wordsworth edition I've read was Crime and Punishment in which 'Russia' was misspelt once and the main character's name twice.

I haven't bought one since.

It's not super uncommon for the same image to be used as a cover for multiple books

>>12264738
After all, it is published by Greenbook Publications LLC.

>>12264335
hahah looks like a datpiff cover

>>12261851
nobody has read that book don't talk about it on 4chin

>>12263182
why is tom making my boner react?

>>12261848
prepare to be metoo'ed into the next dimension, Wordsworth

>>12261667
BRAIN BLAST