/lit/ - Literature

Based. Wordsworth covers are the ultimate pleb filter. Be sure to read it in public.

both novellas are great btw.

>>19208008
Been craving some more based Henry James since Wings of the Dove, hoping they are.

>>19207997
>Ordered from Wordsworth Classics

Oh no no no!!

>>19207997
Dude, the one you got is better.

>>19208069
If people started with the Wordsworth Classics catalog we'd have a better board.

>>19208076
O.... wat means?? Their catalog is just the canon... it can be got anywhere.

>>19208069
To be fair they're very affordable and have a nice collection. It's just that every now and then they come up with some abyss tier bottom shelf fiction covers for no reason.
Though I'd never use a Wordsworth translation, pretty sure their translators are paid in beer or something.

>>19208093
Wordsworth has a bigger & better catalog than most popular publishers. It's just that they're also cheap as fuck.

Cum in those pages before you send it back

>>19208095
It's not just the covers, the books themselves are can be less than ideal, for instance I got their War and Peace and discovered the print was microscopic. But their Moby Dick seems fine. In general they're servicable if all you want is to read but for what should be a trifling amount more you can find a much better paperback. Look at the Barnes and Noble Classics, Penguin, Oxford.

Sometimes Penguin changes theirs too, and the arrival has an unexpected look.
I know for sure they changed Pale Fie and Speak, Memory over the last year or so.

>>19208095
>Though I'd never use a Wordsworth translation, pretty sure their translators are paid in beer or something.
Wordsworth uses public domain works that's why their cheap. They use classic Victorian translations, the only to avoid is their Don Quixote, other than that it's all good.

>>19207997
Next time play safe.

>>19208098
Ah I see

>>19208112
>Avoid Richard Gere as Don Quixote.
Nice try, Penguin Classics

>>19207997
They name the artist on the back cover. Send them an email congratulating them.

>>19208118
Yes, the Wordsworth horror series is also great.

At the end of one of my Wordsworth's there's a page titled Further Reading. The only thing listed is the Wikipedia url.

>>19208190
lmao

>>19208118
The rest of my haul turned out decent thankfully, but yeah I'm actually going to start going out & buying them myself next time.

I wonder what possessed them to change these perfectly fine covers?

Got this and some others arriving today. Thanks Wordsworth, thanks Jeff Bezos.

Got the Aeneid with this ridiculous cover for 2.99 brand new. It was great I'll definitely buy again from them

>>19208142
Holy shit they actually do name the guy. Why would anyone want their name or email anywhere near that cover??

>hating Wordsworth covers
That's it, i'm making a 'create your own wordsworth cover' thread tomorrow to give all you newfags an induction into /lit/ culture.

>>19208110
I've noticed an increase in the number of cartoon drawing covers. Not a huge fan of them.

>>19208213
In one thread someone said it's cheaper to pay a nobody graphic designer than to pay for a photo of an art piece. Paintings may be public domain, but the photographer has the rights to his image of it.

I wonder if there's a market for rebinding books with better covers.

>>19208288
Why, they're pleb filters? The attraction of Wordsworth is they are properly pageset with reasonable paper and binding (unlike most of the print on demand garbage Amazon unleashes) at a dirt cheap price.

>>19207997
looks like somebody got screwed

I own this bad boy.

>>19207997
The cover on the right reminds me of posters of pornographic films

>>19208223
Lmao, this is like a bad photoshop with stock photos. What the fuck were they thinking?

I like the Dosto ones, they look good together on a shelf.

>>19210210
These are good covers but I don't trust their translations. Other than that, they're a great english language publisher.

>>19210273
I don't trust these Wordsworth translations... are these legit... Penguin save me.

>>19210289
>Implying there's only two publishers in the whole world
I own a wordsworth edition of moby dick, btw. And no penguin AT ALL.

>>19210345
>And no penguin AT ALL.
Penguin has the only readable City of God translation

>>19210384
>Penguin has the only readable City of God translation
In english, you mean.
Just learn latin, you faggot. lel

Wordsworth translation choices are patrician as hell. Garnett for Dosty, Chapman for Homer.

>>19210398
where would you even get a latin copy of City of God?

>Garnett for Dosty

You have to be joking. She literally redacted the racy bits so as not to offend her Victorian readership.

Even so, she's still probably better than Pevear and Volokhonsky (press s to spit) whom the other publishers appear to have fallen in love with.

>>19210817
>You have to be joking. She literally redacted the racy bits so as not to offend her Victorian readership.
Post one (1) example.

>>19210817
>She literally redacted the racy bits
Sauce?

>>19210440
Online. Very easy find.

>>19207997
Son, you just got WORTHSWORDED

>>19207997
Signet classics are also very affordable and not ugly. I hate woodsworth because the covers are so gaudy.
Besides that, could someone recommend a henry james novel for someone who really enjoyed his short fiction a la OP?

>>19210817
Who am I supposed to read besides P&K and Garnett?

>not being a Wordsworth enjoyer
ngmi

>>19213417
When people talk about Dostoevsky being a brilliant author, they really mean Constance Garnett. Everyone read Garnett, all western authors inspired by Dostoevsky read him thru Garnett, and you can too.

>I'm a big fan of Russian Literature
>Yes, I too appreciate the works of Constance Garnett.
Russian Literature is a sub-genre of English women's fiction.

>>19209304
funny, i have an old-school wordsworth classics count of monte cristo, and few others i think. they seem to be a pretty common publisher around here in the thrift stores

>>19207997
I swear the people that design book covers have to be mostly retarded or something. You can't just photobash an image and call it a day.

>>19213417
McDuff lol

>>19213435
I just bought a wordsworth editions copy of the canterbury tales. Tasteful cover, good gloss and footnotes, short summary and essay before each tale with a bibliography for further reading on topics relevant to the themes of each tale.
Its basically perfect. The scholarship could be a little more in depth but its not a textbook I guess.
My only complaint is that they don't have similar editions for other middle english works. I'm sick of people asking for translations of a language the could read with a good gloss. Its the best edition of the tales I've ever seen from a regular publisher in a regular bookshop.

>>19210440
I would ask my good friend and boss who used to be a catholic priest where to get one.
Then he'd probably tell me to just read it in english.

>>19213417
MacAndrew or McDuff

>>19213819
>Then he'd probably tell me to just read it in english
But he knew latin, right?
>>19213819
>who used to be a catholic priest where to get one.
This is lit/ as fuck. How did it happen?

>>19213819
>who used to be a catholic priest
why are you friends with a heretic

>>19213819
>used to be priest
based vowbreaker. CHAOS