/lit/ - Literature

>>12480894
The printing press has been around for a while m8

>>12480917
I don't think you quite understand.

>>12480942
tiny format + thinner pages maybe?

What're the page counts?

Based Wordsworth. I've got their Proust in two volumes

>>12480894
have you never seen a bible? Theyre all 1000pgs in like an inch

Shame you didn't get the better cover

>>12480894
Holy based

>>12480965
~1300 pages. I just left. The actual face dimensions are larger than the penguin edition of Finnegan's wake, and it's the usual shitty Wordsworth paper that doesn't flatten properly.

>>12480894
>>12480942
It’s 1488 pages long. No memeing; check Amazon. So yeah that sounds about right given the size of that book.

>>12480985
that might be based, but do you know whats REALLY based?

>>12480991
kek

I read pic related, 1300 pages and zero fucks given. Why pay over the odds for public domain literature? If you need footnotes you're a pleb

>>12480985
/ourpublisher/

Same shit happens with LOA editions. Fucking embarrassing. 750 pages look like 250.

>>12480894
>>12480942
Spread that thing open and show is the size of the text

>>12480987
Wtf I know exactly what you're talking about, I had this frustration all throughout their version of Capital
I had always assumed woodsworth was a good publisher? Are they actually shit?
And verso is too tightly bound, penguin is always horrible..

people should read finn's hotel


:)

>how is this possible?

>>12481867

Ulysses is like 800 pages, Finnegans Wake 600 and Portrait 300, that isn't that much. I have everything concerning Sherlock Holmes written by Doyle in one volume.

>>12481988
Oh ffs they couldve gotten it down to 1000 easily

I’ve always wanted to read this ever since hearing JJ and his siblings would recreate Genesis in their early years and James would play the snake.
That’s something out of Harry Potter or some shit, what kid thinks of doing that?

>>12480894
They make BIG BOOKS
WOW

>>12481885
>I had always assumed woodsworth was a good publisher?
Maybe you came across one of those "bizarro /lit/" threads.

>>12481953
And yet, they produced the greatest Novelist, Poet, Playwright, and Songwriter of the 20th century.

>>12482149
makes me proud to be an alcohol potato n*gger, though i prefer vodka to beer. my mother is mostly Czech.

>>12480894
I've been to that exact second and charles and picked up that exact copy of Joyce. You're from Cobb County.

>>12482009
(Nevermind, thought this was his biography)

anything is possible with tiny text. iirc theres a complete one volume summa theologica.

>>12482088
for u

>>12480942
>Finnegans Wake

>>12480980
big hed

>>12481030
Am I right in thinking Mrs Dalloway, then To The Lighthouse is the best way to start?

>>12482149
>Greatest Songwriter
Kevin Shields?

>>12482190
No, I'm from Michigan.

>>12480980

lmao look at the top of his head

>>12482469
I'm sorry

>>12480894

Wow, 15 bucks for 4 whole novels. That's 3.75 per novel! What a bargain!

>>12482625
Big brain on this guy

>>12482625
Book too big, an affront to mankind

>>12482625
I want.

>>12482625
that's a big book

>>12481030
>NYELVKONYVBOLT

/lit/ is a romanian board, please leave

>>12482149
>Greatest Songwriter
Bono Vox?

My Wordsworth Moby Dick is less than 500 pages, they don't mess around when it comes to font sizes

>>12482906
>T. Coastal Fudgepacker

>>12482453
>>12483245
https://youtu.be/xrOgYjp20j0

>>12482625
Absolute unit

>>12482625
>bottom's dream
I'm sure this was the title of a gay porn I watched once.

>>12480980
Master Roshi

>>12482625
I will take to my grave the fact that I passed on someone selling this book for $50.

When was Joyce's BRAP fetish revealed? Was he at least dead? The letters are funny but I feel kind of bad that something that personal and probably embarrassing is fairly common knowledge now.

>>12482249
BASED

>>12483129
for you

>>12482249
absolutely based

>>12480894
S-should I?

>>12480894
>Wordsworth

How does this Wordsworth tackle the sections where the formatting changes? Like the "Circe" chapter from Ulysses, or especially "Nightlessons" (II.2) from Finnegans Wake?

any books about this feel?

>>12480894
Do you really think this deserves its own thread? Wow

sage

>>12480991
based

>>12482249
Based af

>>12480894
Literally just the size of ‘Women and Men’.

>>12480894
Ah, yes, the inherent democratisation of The-Type-of-Words and its inherent problamatic of value displacement (unlike a single painting worth a million bucks). Transfers oral and secondary oral are persistant snatchers of wouldbe exchange, used and paperbacked, mildewed edging, (probably yellowing of spirit, (down the leg...)).

>>12484800
>*Snorts*
>"It's worth it!"
When you start paying people to tell you what you want to hear, I hope you remember that your market correcter is formalized into political protocols. On one side justice undercut and the other finance undercut. All justified more than unfair long range, complex economic risk incentivising.
>"You don't matter to anyone, and you are no one."
I remember that feel before I read a short book that made me understand empathy as a creative act, one that destabilizes the ego sometimes. As a doctor, you'd get this. But as a loser, you'd probably think your 4000 pages is more difficult to understand and slog through . But there are still shorter poems that take a lifetime to inhabit. And there are a thousand reasons to do so as a doctor.
>reason > ....

>>12485157
>>12485265
and then there's the schizophrenic guy who can't form a sentence

>>12480942
T-two books?

>>12482625
That's a proper big boy book

Mirin the brain on this guy

It is hilarious that "IT" somehow manages to be 1200 pages of boring descriptions of shit nobody cares about and yet a good author's entire works can fit in a book only slightly bigger

"but muh childhood to adulthood theme needs to be beaten into the reader through lengthy monologuing cause that's how writers do it"
t. Stephen faggot King

>>12482249
What a based looking frog!

I have the hardback RSC Complete Shakespeare.
2552 pages. The pages are very thin but it's still humorously massive and unwieldy.

>>12485516
How much did it cost?

>>12485529
£11, near enough.
Mine didn't have the box/case that it usually comes with but was in pristine condition otherwise.

>>12480980
>The Complete Novels
>Dubliners
Dubliners isn't a novel reeee