/lit/ - Literature

Atleast you didn't get Crime and Punishment.

>>7552906
Please be joking.

>>7552914
Already read it

>>7552915
Not joking

>translations

I'd say so.

>>7552919
Never read the Wordsworth so I don't know the problem but the covers look kind of lame so I would not buy. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Wordsworth had the absolute gayest cover of anything I have ever seen.

All those spines of sexy dudes is gonna make your shelf look like its full of grocery store romance novels

>>7552922
The covers are indeed "kind of lame".

That's not my main worry though, I'm more worried about the translations.

>>7552906
well you got mostly translations so probably. Same with Moby Dick, the notes will likely be shit
Wordsworth probably uses Constance Garrett for russian translations, personally i think she's okay, but lit says she's shit

>>7552927
>not even one female author

>>7552906
>not learning Russian
It's only the most essential language for an English speaker after French, German and maybe Italian.
>fuck the classics

>>7552923
I laughed audibly

>>7552919
you fucking madman

>>7552927
What is the painting on the Chekhov book? it should say at the back

>>7552927
>that Notes from Underground
The Chekhov looks nice though.

>>7552937
"Urban Landscape" by Byllya Ivanovich Mashkov

>>7552927
why does the illustration have to protrude from the border like that goddamn

>>7552927
The Idiot looks like a Russian Catcher in the Rye (which would better fit The Notes From the Underground) and Moby Dick isn't translated.

>>7552940
You should see the Moby Dick illustration, it's so bad parts of it are blurred out.

>>7552932
>reading books that wasn't written by old white dead men

pleb/10

>>7553032
>books that wasn't

>>7553034
>proud to have linguistic privilege

absolutelydisgusting.jpeg

$ wise you're halfway to a kindle. Could've just got the Project Gutenberg editions

>>7553063
I paid £12 for the lot

>>7552906
Their translations are the cheapest, lowest common denominator.

They use the cheapest material and their covers always look like someone from /b/ threw them together in photoshop for keks.

That said, if you are poor and want to read classics of the english language, there's nothing really wrong with them. I'd avoid the translations though.

>>7553171
Pretty much agree, I actually have several of the woodsworth because not only are they a lot cheaper, the bookstores where I live always have offers on them like 50% off or 3 for 2 and shit. When the price is 1/10 of the other pocket editions and I'm poor, I can live with a couple of bad translations.

Entry level, no bully

>>7552927
Notes from the underground looks like one of those horrible supermarket romans.

>>7552932
They're all translated by Constance Garnett tho

I'm happy to buy a Wordsworth when it's not translated and the cover doesn't look too bad. So far I own Wordsworth editions of Woolf and Hardy and they're fine. The paper and print quality is better than Vintage, the footnotes and introductions are cursory but interesting and academic. Typos are more common than in Penguin, Vintage, Oxford & co., but not pervasive.

>>7552906
a little bit idiot

I have a few, but they are english works, so I'm not worried about the translation.
That said, reading heart of darkness and the two other stories in it was a bit hard since the print was so small it made my eyes hurt.

You didn't fuck up if you did it ironically

>>7552927
The death of Ivan Ilyich reminds me of ewan mcgregor

>>7553194

>DUTCH TRANSLATIONS

you fucked up.

>>7552906
Ugly covers and usually awful translations in the public domain. I guess it's okay if you're on a budget and need a book to annotate/study, and if you don't care about the shitty covers and buy a book originally in English, then I guess it's doing no harm.

>mfw I bought Wordsworth Don Quixote and it's the Motteux translation

There's nothing wrong with wordsworth, He liked spring, birds and shit.

>>7553045
Is there another implication with that pic of Mona except for her face of disapproval?
Btw, I wasn't aware of that tattoo until now, thanks.

I think they've got a decent cover for Dubliners.

Master & the Margarita has to be one of the worst ones I've ever seen though.

>>7553311
Same here, I have Joyce, Hardy, Lewis Carroll, Crowley and Woolf. They are A-okay for casual study.

bumping so everyone can see how retarded you are

>>7553870
Lol, I'd fuck with that cover. Not even that bad tbqh senpai

>>7552932
What? I guess OP MUST HATE ALL WOMEN

>>7552906
>reading translations
>ever

Stop dissing Wordsworth.

Hahahahahaha god damn OP you got ripped off you can get those shitty books for free anywhere

or at least .50 cents for a good paper back translation, you god damn sucker hahahaha go kill yourself you corporate fuck face

>>7557830
The fuck kinda of scene is that, I recently reread Crime and Punishment and there is no memorable occasion of an orthodox fucking priest talking to Raskolnikov

>>7557863
I thought I remember a scene like that taking place in Siberia.

>>7552906
>>7552923

>>7557870
like what in the 20 pages of the actual 'punishment' at the end? Maybe he started becoming religious but he shut everyone out in prison even his other inmates and definitely the officials (until he got sick). If he got religious it was because of Sonya right before his imprisonment and confession and afterwards in prison, not cause of some dumbass priest.

A better cover would have been Raskolnikov wandering around with an ax or perhaps one of his dreams. If it had to be a damn 2 person cover put Sonya + Raskolnikov, or even Petrovich + Raskolnikov, not some random ass priest which has zero impact on the novel.

>>7557886
dude that guy is a jew trying to get you to buy the book for your english class for 9 dollars

right on my africana american people of color negroes?

>>7557904
urg yeah I guess, never seen this publisher around where I am

Still frustrating tho

>>7557908
fuck the system dude ayy lmao

>>7552906
You dun goofed anon. Only acceptable wordsworth paperpack to own is Ulysses which has a 6/10 cover
I do own a copy of it

Is Wordsworth any good for poetry?

>>7559437
if they are not translations and you dont mind the covers, sure.

>>7559440
Their poetry covers aren't bad but a bit samey kitsch.

>>7552906
if you're on a budget sook it up and read a feckin digital text mate dont insult your dignity with awful covers, tiny text, and shite translation. keep the Chekhov and Tolstoy and throw the others in the garbage

>>7552906
What the fuck have they done to Dosto covers?
These are some of mine. Anyways, I've read plenty of Wordsworths, it can help you develop your taste, especially with English novels.

Firstly, they've changed the Dosto covers. They're all minimalist grey and black pictures now that look like they should be on the cover of Der Prozess.

Secondly, their World Classics editions have pretty decent covers.

Lastly, I like them as far as annotations and contextual notes go. Particularly for cultural or political allusions of the time they're pretty useful.

>>7553870
To be fair a lot of Master and Margarita covers have that ridiculous over the top look to them. Google image search it and you'll see what I mean.