Wordsworth Classics

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Wordsworth Classics Anonymous Sat May 9 14:32:06 2020 No.15318368 [Reply] [Original]

What the fuck is wrong with them? Are they a joke publisher?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 14:37:45 2020 No.15318409 File: 547 KB, 2348x1108, 1545996582821.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] They scare the plebs away

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 14:40:07 2020 No.15318427 File: 24 KB, 321x499, 41fx1wZNuIL._SX319_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318368 Nailed it

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:07:13 2020 No.15318631 I only buy Illustrated Platinum Editions, sorry.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:20:03 2020 No.15318720 File: 76 KB, 593x924, 1562908507962.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:23:15 2020 No.15318743 >>15318720 This has to be a joke lmao

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:24:54 2020 No.15318759 >>15318409 based

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:25:54 2020 No.15318763 File: 35 KB, 466x601, 61Naoc2ZeGL._AC_SX466_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318720 what do you think the Ancient Greeks would have thought of Schwarzenegger

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:26:24 2020 No.15318767 File: 93 KB, 700x1074, 610RcD8n-EL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318368

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:27:27 2020 No.15318773 File: 34 KB, 320x500, 51jgtfxRewL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318720 kek

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:28:58 2020 No.15318789 File: 674 KB, 600x958, chldren-of-dune.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318773

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:33:59 2020 No.15318817 There are so many, and they're so bad. http://wordsworthclassics.com/collections/classics

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:36:10 2020 No.15318835 File: 31 KB, 250x415, 004156715.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:38:16 2020 No.15318850 File: 135 KB, 400x613, 9781853260452.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318817 WTF

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:38:46 2020 No.15318853 >>15318850 that looks like gay erotica straight up

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:47:46 2020 No.15318908 I have about 5 wordsworths. There is an equivalent to the wordsworth here in Brazil. They eventually improved the quality of the covers but some are quite funny.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:51:13 2020 No.15318924 My copy of Ulysses is Wordsworth, one of the very few with a decent cover. Bible-thin pages, garbage formatting, no headings, but it was $2 new so I can’t really complain

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:51:44 2020 No.15318929 File: 59 KB, 400x665, 9781853260865.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:52:57 2020 No.15318938 File: 30 KB, 318x499, 51LoVL6-6PL._SX316_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Their poetry series is comfy.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:53:18 2020 No.15318943 >>15318368 Truly this is a mystery. You could go with a blank black front with just the title on it and it would be a vast improvement, and you wouldn't have to commission an "artist" to make these covers. It has to be a joke of some sort

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:54:29 2020 No.15318950 File: 676 KB, 1432x2251, 91LQHhHJJNL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this one always cracks me up

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 16:32:36 2020 No.15319216 File: 157 KB, 400x621, deerslayer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 16:54:16 2020 No.15319361 The covers are so hilariously shitty I want to buy a complete collection just to be ironic. What genius is this?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 17:06:27 2020 No.15319416 Seriously though is it worth buying these? they are like less than half the price of the penguin versions so should i get these in stead?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 17:09:15 2020 No.15319434 File: 50 KB, 250x383, 174217452714.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318368 P A T R I C I A N

Anonymous Sat May 9 17:12:55 2020 No.15319453
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I assume that the reason most of their books have several different cover variants is because they just grab random artwork/stock photos from the Internet and then get copyright struck.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 17:13:49 2020 No.15319460 File: 77 KB, 400x665, 9781853264443.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I like them.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 17:37:30 2020 No.15319669 >>15318368 i'd watch this porno

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 17:47:19 2020 No.15319761 What the

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 18:31:03 2020 No.15320090 File: 9 KB, 178x284, Dune.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 18:33:36 2020 No.15320125 File: 27 KB, 320x500, wordsworth_moby_dick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I was wondering what was wrong with my copy of moby dick.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 18:45:12 2020 No.15320254 >>15320125 Whale looks like it has down syndrome.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 18:45:36 2020 No.15320257 >>15318950 Best thing is that this is exactly what Candide should look like.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 18:50:39 2020 No.15320296 >>15319416 They’re fine for English works, the only real downside is that they’re ugly and use public domain translations for foreign stuff. A lot of the covers really aren’t that bad, in those cases the price justifies it.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 18:51:52 2020 No.15320301 >>15318409 This one is really well done. Well made.

>>	p !!3HEGsf00Rg+ Sat May 9 20:01:14 2020 No.15320814 >>15320254 g

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 20:04:57 2020 No.15320841 I will never understand Wordsworth. Would it not be easier and even cheaper for them to just have plain covers featuring the author's, novel's and publisher's name?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 21:59:52 2020 No.15321615 >>15318950 kek is that the aztec calendar behind them?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:04:43 2020 No.15321644 >>15320841 Dumb covers catch the eye more

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:08:24 2020 No.15321673 >>15318720 [Homosexual urge intensifies]

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:12:08 2020 No.15321699 >>15320254 more like upside down syndrome

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:20:30 2020 No.15321749 File: 35 KB, 600x600, carlos.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15321699 Carlos!

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:22:09 2020 No.15321764 >>15318938 Not bad

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:23:04 2020 No.15321770 >>15320301 Agreed. Look at those margins. Fine meme craftsmanship.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:27:15 2020 No.15321798 >>15319216 This is actually based and good art though (even though the Native American depicted is from the wrong geographic area)

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:29:17 2020 No.15321814 File: 10 KB, 251x242, 15389955253935.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Can't believe these covers are real. Been kekking for 5 minutes straight in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:31:20 2020 No.15321833 >>15318929 kek this one is a beauty

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:34:28 2020 No.15321857 >>15321814 hip-hop has pen & pixel lit has wordsworth

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:36:51 2020 No.15321870 File: 25 KB, 314x487, undergound.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318368 I like this one

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:41:04 2020 No.15321887 File: 19 KB, 255x400, master_and_margarita.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Found a new personal favorite

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:45:10 2020 No.15321920 File: 1.82 MB, 959x1500, ij.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:46:12 2020 No.15321927 File: 657 KB, 719x1125, gravitysrainbowwordsworth.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:47:22 2020 No.15321936 File: 211 KB, 327x316, 745.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15321920

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:29:45 2020 No.15322207 >>15318368 In all seriousness, I wonder how well they sell. Is there a method to their madness?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:31:52 2020 No.15322221 >>15322207 They sell huge amounts to used bookstores across the country. The same reason Goodwill has cooking utensils.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:33:52 2020 No.15322230 >>15322207 They sell quite well in the UK. Especially their big poetry anthologies and big novels like Ulysses and all that.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:34:29 2020 No.15322235 >>15318409 >intros written by some guy he found in uni, paid in beer Based

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:34:53 2020 No.15322239 >>15321920 ah shit

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:41:57 2020 No.15322275 File: 512 KB, 746x1200, 1023241377.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I was waiting for you, big boy!!

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:43:53 2020 No.15322283 >>15318943 >It has to be a joke of some sort wow you're a genuis

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:47:14 2020 No.15322301 >>15318409 kek also, I kid you not, they are the only publisher who sells William Wordsworth's entire collected poetry currently. Penguin and Oxford only sell sellected poems.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:52:27 2020 No.15322324 File: 870 KB, 778x1200, 1016462728.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >what kind of uncle Tom you want? >just put one, who cares, all look the same >k, here's a pic of an an hobo, some Photoshop and... VOILA!!!

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:53:32 2020 No.15322330 >>15322324 That's a cabin alright.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:56:21 2020 No.15322350 >>15322324 he looks like an pretty old Mike Tyson

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:59:25 2020 No.15322371 >>15322324 >an hobo Is that not Morgan Freeman?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 00:50:21 2020 No.15322664 >>15318409 >penguin >good translation yikes

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 01:16:23 2020 No.15322815 >>15318773 Doesn't even have the axe facing the correct way. So good hahaha

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 01:57:32 2020 No.15323083 File: 82 KB, 1080x600, 6a945bd990a9cce780c864f023ba8d6c3ef2c692af96ef82ef34ea01f3e9870e_1~01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15322324 I recognize that cabin. https://forums.cgsociety.org/t/lighting-challenge-24-wip-the-cabin/1448762

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 02:05:52 2020 No.15323146 File: 9 KB, 179x282, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No one posting the GOAT

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 02:07:38 2020 No.15323159 File: 509 KB, 664x1043, C33FF8CE-3650-4F2B-97B9-C91FC57A13EC.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15323146 Better quality

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 07:24:46 2020 No.15324490 deserves a bump

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 07:29:45 2020 No.15324512 >>15323159 9kb is a fitting size for that one

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 07:41:04 2020 No.15324565 >>15321887 holy shit how can this be real Wordsworth should just have solid colour covers with the title and author

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 07:42:06 2020 No.15324568 Can someone make something like this but wordsworth https://nullk.github.io/penguin.html

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 07:46:58 2020 No.15324579 >>15322283 Are you saying that this company is deliberately hurting the quality of its product just for the sake of making "a joke"?

Anonymous Sun May 10 08:07:38 2020 No.15324688

Genuinely feel like this says something about capitalism or just human society in general. This publisher is unwilling to spend any money on hiring a semi-competent graphic designer even when the low quality of the product should by all acounts hurt the sales. And at no point in the whole chain of manufacturing somebody looks at the product with a critical eye and thinks 'Wait, what the fuck are we doing? Maybe we should just ditch the illustrations if these are the best we can come up with'

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 08:09:10 2020 No.15324695 >>15324688 Why hire a designer when you can just use public domain images like every other publisher?

Anonymous Sun May 10 08:13:24 2020 No.15324712

>>15318817
when you look these you realise that most of the covers are *fine* for the books they represent. Just shitty photoshops of people on landscapes. It's when they apply that formula to serious texts that the dissonance becomes more noticeable and hilarious. I think its entirely unintentional, I think they just don't give a shit about representing the tone of the novel and this is what you end up with.

Anonymous Sun May 10 08:21:00 2020 No.15324741

>>15318368
holy keks, I live in Poland and Wordsworth is the cheapest way here to get original English books (I don't read translations), their philosophy covers aren't that bad and it allows me to read Hume, Locke and Hobbes for a price of a Polish book

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 09:08:26 2020 No.15324971 File: 85 KB, 667x445, article-wordsworth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15324695 It's strange because they use to do exactly that, their old covers looked good.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 09:16:30 2020 No.15325015 >>15318720 why is the parthenon blasting off

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 09:18:36 2020 No.15325027 >>15321870 image looks like an ad for a PUA seminar

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 09:24:53 2020 No.15325062 >>15318763 Given that he'd pass out in just an hour of wrestling due to dehydration, probably very little.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 09:28:09 2020 No.15325083 It weird since many of their books have normal ass covers. Either whoever they have in charge for novel covers is a retard or the greatest troll ever

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 11:42:22 2020 No.15325897 >>15322815 what

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 13:04:59 2020 No.15326621 >>15318409 absolutamente baseado

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 13:15:10 2020 No.15326709 LAST CHANCE TO BUY SOME WORDWORTH CLASSICS http://wordsworthclassics.com/collections/highlight/last-chance-to-buy

Anonymous Sun May 10 13:19:42 2020 No.15326742
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>>15322207
In my experience, where they actually shine is with their poetry collections. Dirt cheap, but with pleasing covers.

It was common when I was at school about 10 years ago for the teacher to go on Amazon and buy the whole class a copy of whatever book we were going to read, and she'd get the Wordsworth obviously because they're stupidly cheap.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 13:21:09 2020 No.15326759 File: 207 KB, 1500x2342, 71HO7DWAYdL[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You literally cannot get more based than this

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 13:23:35 2020 No.15326776 >>15325897 He killed the old lady with the back of the axe. But he did kill Lisaveta with the blade.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 13:26:16 2020 No.15326799 >>15318908 I have L&PM's War and Peace. Should I read it?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 13:26:31 2020 No.15326800 File: 41 KB, 329x499, 51KvkLD0lfL._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >cheaper than Penguin >most tasteful cover art of the three

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 14:47:30 2020 No.15327337 >>15322207 >Is there a method to their madness? When they started there was, as it was the only way for poorfags to have their own copy of a classic work. Nowadays you could just get a pdf, so not sure if it will last.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 14:58:56 2020 No.15327395 >>15318773 I'm cracking up. Copping a copy.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:00:01 2020 No.15327404 >>15318835 Looks like the cover of an airport romance novel

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:00:44 2020 No.15327408 >>15327337 pdfs have been around since like the 90s and physical books still exist and the sales are as healthy as ever. there was even a boost in sales because of the covid-19.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:17:44 2020 No.15327587 >>15318427 Is this supposed to be Natasha?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:18:49 2020 No.15327602 >>15318767 This looks like a SFW porn edit

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:29:11 2020 No.15327695 >>15321920 >U CAN'T BE SERIOUS This is a good cover. Imagine preferring a cover with a blurb by some dumb critic.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:31:34 2020 No.15327714 >>15318409 INCREDIBLY BASED

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:40:36 2020 No.15327803 File: 38 KB, 640x640, 9ADFBA5E-C977-472C-863C-8F0CEF500D47.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Why yes, my library is composed exclusively of Wordsworth classics. How did you know?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:42:33 2020 No.15327823 >>15326759 w-why is he wearing eyeliner?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:45:26 2020 No.15327856 >>15327823 Greek Chad things, you wouldn't understand.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 15:52:42 2020 No.15327915 >>15326800 dangerously based

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>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 16:13:53 2020 No.15328068 >>15324741 Yep, I got Moby Dick for a few zlotys

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 16:20:42 2020 No.15328127 File: 24 KB, 322x499, ugktgk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15320125 my moby dick is different, doesnt look as bad as yours

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 16:29:06 2020 No.15328196 >>15327408 They were around, but most people didn't have the means to download and read them. Cheap paperbacks were the only option.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 16:31:10 2020 No.15328210 >>15328127 this but remove "moby" from the post

Anonymous Sun May 10 16:37:45 2020 No.15328252
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Wordsworth is great if you're buying in English
>but the covers
Their covers are pretty dope these days. Check out pic attached, way better than the Penguin edition. Copped this for like £2, notes were helpful and it's got an intro from Tony Benn

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 17:00:53 2020 No.15328454 >>15318773 absolute kino

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 17:04:39 2020 No.15328475 >>15328127 I bought mine in 2016. I guess they updated it sometime

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 17:51:59 2020 No.15328886 File: 15 KB, 326x500, dracula.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318409 >penguin >looks good on a shelf my nigga you wylin

Anonymous Sun May 10 20:21:15 2020 No.15329894

>>15320125
>>15328127
Holy Shit, the execs at wordsworth are fucking genius. They change their covers so as to tell a story through them. The first cover has the whale leaping out of the water, the second one has it going in. Next edition will have a calm sea. It's fucking brilliant.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj Sun May 10 20:28:06 2020 No.15329931 File: 139 KB, 500x775, 29281020-9373-44CC-90AA-9FB1979BCAEA.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15328252 Just now took a look. I agree I prefer mine.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 21:11:29 2020 No.15330179 >>15329931 Penguins stay on top

Anonymous Sun May 10 22:16:12 2020 No.15330586
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>>15326799
Well actually LPM pocket is pretty good compared with the one I was referring to: Martin Claret. Their recent covers have actually been pretty good.

Regarding you War and Peace, LPM's translations are actually good, so no reason not to read

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 22:23:52 2020 No.15330632 File: 23 KB, 286x463, 1462f85d435345a883e59badfb60d219.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318908 >>15326799 I have this horrible one Lol

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 22:26:17 2020 No.15330646 >>15330632 LOL so funny!! XDD hahahahha

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 22:28:42 2020 No.15330657 >>15318763 Roids didn't exist back then, so he wouldn't be Schwarzenegger as we know him.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 22:31:08 2020 No.15330671 >>15321927 This one is actually a good cover, given the book.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 22:34:43 2020 No.15330695 >>15330671 Is Pynchon really that bad ? I only read bad things about him, specially here

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 22:45:54 2020 No.15330771 File: 2.76 MB, 4032x3024, B7DC5238-34A5-48E3-B895-E141D4AB2351.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These are the two I own, but I prefer the one on the right, looks like they’re about to try and kill Indiana Jones.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 01:04:10 2020 No.15331636 >>15330771 how's the poem layout in the left one? care to share a picture?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 01:15:20 2020 No.15331692 >>15324688 You buy the book for the literature not the cover. If anything it’s preferable to make it as cheap as possible.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 01:16:03 2020 No.15331695 File: 2.50 MB, 4032x3024, 1560AAA9-EA0D-4FB7-8223-BF650388B6BF.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15331636

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 01:49:20 2020 No.15331853 >>15318950 https://www.halloweencostumes.com/

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 01:50:47 2020 No.15331858 >>15331695 Thanks, lad.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 01:56:51 2020 No.15331885 >>15325027 KEK

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 02:14:57 2020 No.15331949 File: 134 KB, 400x621, D5FD1D02-AC62-4371-83B5-6FE9DE2773A0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318368 >>15318720

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 02:16:18 2020 No.15331951 File: 147 KB, 400x621, AB51D343-CB09-415F-ADA1-97489DA5EA1D.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15331949

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 02:54:14 2020 No.15332133 >>15318368 For the covers mostly they use royalty free images one can find for free on the Internet, and the written content itself is public domain So none of the book costs money except the printing of it

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 03:12:37 2020 No.15332226 >>15318850 >hey hey people

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 08:01:10 2020 No.15333538 >>15318773 Thoughts?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 08:11:12 2020 No.15333594 >>15318427 ive got this one but also an older copy with what looks like napoleon on horse back for the cover

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 08:11:57 2020 No.15333599 >>15330695 Pynchon is funny. He's a humorist. His jokes are just very smart. The cover is funny and ironic, so it's a good fit.

Anonymous Mon May 11 08:16:47 2020 No.15333617

>>15322207
>>15322230
>>15327337
https://wordsworth-editions.com/collections/highlight/top-ten-bestsellers
if you look at their top 10 bestsellers u will see that most of these books are studied in uk secondary schools so its mostly students getting them and schools en masse to hand out

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 08:20:38 2020 No.15333629 does anyone have the Blood Meridian one

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 08:25:30 2020 No.15333646 >>15333617 So wordsworth is actually based to make classics available to everyone, very based

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 08:36:22 2020 No.15333690 >>15330586 >>15330632 I somewhat like their covers in a kitsch way. They're bizarre but they are distinct.

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>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 08:43:00 2020 No.15333721 >>15333715 why don't they just use something like this instead of shitty covers ?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 08:48:37 2020 No.15333744 >>15330771 OHIO H I O

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 08:48:52 2020 No.15333746 >>15322275 >>15322275 Is that the WTC going down?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 13:03:58 2020 No.15335380 >>15330695 Pynchon is good but he rambles like no tomorrow. There'll be a little exposition and then like a four page wall of text on the --mood--

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 13:16:53 2020 No.15335488 >>15318835 Well, in this case they are fitting, basically some cheap soft porn.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 13:20:18 2020 No.15335516 >>15320254 spermwhales look like downies but are the most badass ones too

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 13:23:30 2020 No.15335538 >>15322275 they all look like porn dvd covers or those deviantart erotic fanfics or something

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 13:24:40 2020 No.15335548 File: 70 KB, 250x388, 9781853260964.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] . Hm

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 13:49:43 2020 No.15335758 >>15333744 Sorry, Omaha.

Anonymous Mon May 11 14:29:56 2020 No.15336158

They have their gems. I have the complete works of Synge. Good because it’s his Plays, poems, and prose altogether and still not bulky.
They do Chapman’s Homer.
Also the intro to the Decameron was pretty good. Written by some Irish prof. Made me actually like the book itself better than college did.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 16:52:01 2020 No.15337256 >>15327803 zozzle

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 16:53:15 2020 No.15337269 >>15323159 I'll never understand why John Belushi is on that pendant.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 16:54:44 2020 No.15337282 >>15336158 How's Synge's work? I like Irish writers.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 17:38:20 2020 No.15337617 >>15321887 that's awful

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 17:54:50 2020 No.15337741 >>15318368 There covers were not always that bad, what happened?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 17:56:22 2020 No.15337751 >>15319460 a nice cover? From Woodswordth? impossible.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 18:00:40 2020 No.15337790 File: 85 KB, 426x640, heracles1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318763 They would have viewed him as distorted. Their ideal was the Alexander statue, but even their images of Heracles are better proportioned.

Anonymous Mon May 11 18:42:44 2020 No.15338174

>>15337282
Definitely read him if you’re into Irish lit. He was influenced by Yeats as far as an interest in the old pagan beliefs and peasants. And was an influence himself on Beckett as a playwright but not so much in terms of style (Synge’s plays are pretty straightforward) but for shaping Irish theatre. You can learn a lot about Ireland by reading Synge. Start with The Aron Islands, his travelogue/social study on the islands way out on the west coast. Then check out whatever plays catch your fancy. They’re all pretty short.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 19:04:49 2020 No.15338364 File: 8 KB, 390x470, 638597282949.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15322275 is that fucking 9/11 in the background?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 19:06:12 2020 No.15338374 >>15332226 >sseth here

Anonymous Mon May 11 21:05:20 2020 No.15339274
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>>15318763
They would probably favor the earlier bodybuilders before steroids and HGH became a big thing. A lot of them started in the circus as weightlifters or gymnasts, so they were well rounded athletes who just chose to spend some time building aesthetics as well. Not so different to an ancient Greek who went to the gymnasium every day.
A massive man wouldn't impress them unless he could use his size to work, wrestle and throw javelins. Function and beauty go together. Eugen Sandow (pic related) used to visit museums to measure the ancient statues and get the proportions. He would then use that as the benchmark for training his own body.
>>15337790
>Their ideal was the Alexander statue, but even their images of Heracles are better proportioned.
What do you think of the Hellenistic aesthetic? I always thought Laocoon is ideal, but there is something to be said for the bulkier arms on a lot of Heracles sculptures.

Anonymous Mon May 11 21:15:33 2020 No.15339346
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>>15335538
Some of these works were the porn of their day, so it's a much more fitting cover in a way. A lot of people were initially opposed to the printing press as it allowed young people to access erotic fiction. Nothing has really changed, the technology just got better.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:16:51 2020 No.15339357 >>15326800 bland millenial color scheme

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:17:44 2020 No.15339361 >>15339346 >the technology just got better Something has changed then, dumb fuck. Are you saying technological progress doesn't make a qualitative difference?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:20:00 2020 No.15339371 >>15318368 All publishers are joke publishers.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:20:11 2020 No.15339372 >>15329894 repent

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:20:44 2020 No.15339376 >>15339361 Yes I am, dumb fuck. They make a quantitative difference, not a qualitative difference.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:21:47 2020 No.15339383 >>15318409 FPBP >>15339371 Except for Wordsworth. They are totally serious.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:22:01 2020 No.15339384 >>15339376 Are you saying high-definition hardcore porn isn't more damaging than an erotic fiction book?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:29:38 2020 No.15339433 >>15339384 More damaging = quantitative difference

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:32:20 2020 No.15339458 File: 1.07 MB, 2000x2001, P0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318368 >>15318409 say what you will about Wordsworth but at least they never put out dreck like this

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:36:14 2020 No.15339484 >>15318938 The only cover where they cared.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:37:00 2020 No.15339495 File: 135 KB, 288x415, 1471829569295.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15339371

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:40:07 2020 No.15339520 >>15339357 Cringe

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:44:04 2020 No.15339546 >>15339433 No it's not, think about it. A quantitative difference would be in the number of erotic books or porn videos being distributed.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 21:50:01 2020 No.15339585 File: 99 KB, 400x665, AB7C676A-A0E3-4D7C-9145-C11F5DD4E39F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This fucking thread

Anonymous Mon May 11 21:56:31 2020 No.15339623

>>15339546
That would not necessarily constitute a difference at all, unless each individual is actually consuming a larger quantity. Technology increases the efficiency of consumption, which is a quantitative difference.
Suppose it takes, for example, 20 erotic novels to cause the same change to your psyche as 1 hardcore porno. The technology of video recording has then brought quantitative change by a factor of 20. If the internet causes people to consume 100 times more porn, then that is a quantitative change by a factor of 100.
It's not a qualitative change unless you can prove that the new format affects you in a way that no amount of material in the old format ever could.

Anonymous Mon May 11 22:02:10 2020 No.15339660

>>15339623
I was making a joke with the last post but it seems pretty obvious that no amount of erotica could fuck you up like watching today's porn everyday will. Actual visuals are much more powerful than some suggestive words helping you along with your imagination.

Anonymous Mon May 11 22:14:50 2020 No.15339744

>>15339660
I never disputed that it would do that, only whether it is a difference in kind or a difference in degree. No amount of erotica would affect you the same way as watching porn every day, because there aren't enough hours in the day to read that much erotica. This does not prove that there is no amount of erotica that can cause the same effect as one porno.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 22:22:58 2020 No.15339792 >>15318817 >>15324712 I legitimately like all the Thomas Hardy covers.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 22:23:10 2020 No.15339797 >>15339744 >there aren't enough hours in the day to read that much erotica It's practically a qualitative difference then, which is what matters to us.

Anonymous Mon May 11 22:40:39 2020 No.15339916

>>15339797
No, it's still a change in quantity unless you can prove that it causes something to happen which never happened before on any scale. For example, a dock crane allows you to lift more weight than 100 of your ancestors, but the act of putting boxes onto ships would be entirely familiar to them. A nuclear reactor on the other hand allows you to transmute elements, which no amount of labor could achieve before.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 22:53:13 2020 No.15339982 >>15339916 No practically feasible amount of erotica will damage your dopamine receptors. Reading is something that affects the intellect, even if it's erotica, while images and videos are sensual.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 22:58:56 2020 No.15340024 >>15339982 >No practically feasible amount of erotica will damage your dopamine receptors. Can you provide evidence for that?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 23:02:49 2020 No.15340060 >>15340024 Nope, I'm just making it up as I go.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 23:31:23 2020 No.15340275 >>15333617 >making the canon affordable for everyone holy BASED

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 23:32:32 2020 No.15340285 >>15339585 TOP KEK

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 23:33:33 2020 No.15340293 >>15339792 those are nice, yes.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 00:01:36 2020 No.15340486 >>15323159 Are we not going to talk about the huge fucking roast pig in the background?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 00:33:28 2020 No.15340718 >>15323159 yawn

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 02:30:55 2020 No.15341399 >>15318924 wtf so is mine. I thought that joyce just formatted it as such to up the confusion

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 02:36:07 2020 No.15341433 >>15326800 only right answer. Best translations as well, best range of works, best prices too.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 04:53:13 2020 No.15341980 >>15339585 >brown bear

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 05:05:40 2020 No.15342034 >>15339458 do not slander Morrissey

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 05:08:44 2020 No.15342049 File: 178 KB, 1500x2342, 71kacD-5wrL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is pretty great too

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 05:09:48 2020 No.15342053 >>15323159 this is so bad that it's good.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 05:32:59 2020 No.15342160 >>15322275 >9/11 in the background lmaooooo

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 08:26:26 2020 No.15342997 File: 277 KB, 1503x2338, lord-jim-joseph-conrad-9781853260377.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15342053 they all are

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 08:48:55 2020 No.15343094 >>15320125 Heh I have this disgrace in my bookshelf also.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 09:59:45 2020 No.15343516 File: 695 KB, 1441x2288, 1567295696258.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15333629

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 10:25:43 2020 No.15343659 >>15318850 >ITGOESITGOESITGOES

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 10:28:02 2020 No.15343675 >>15321870 this is the face of someone who is sick

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 10:28:38 2020 No.15343677 >>15318773 JUST

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 10:29:03 2020 No.15343680 >>15322207 they are the only cheap english books in serbia, 10 times more cheaper than penguin

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 10:36:59 2020 No.15343731 >>15343516 10/10 would buy

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 10:44:48 2020 No.15343778 File: 96 KB, 700x1074, beauty is truth, and truth beauty.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] spook incoming

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:44:21 2020 No.15344236 >>15343778 Holy shit use a spoiler tag next time. How come bookstores let this elephant foot in book form on their shelves? They wish all their customers suffer a heart failure?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:46:22 2020 No.15344249 >>15342034 He slanders himself enough already. Also on here it's libel.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 12:01:12 2020 No.15344354 >>15323146 Who's the woman in the back supposed to be? Also a roast chicken on the table?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 12:02:52 2020 No.15344363 >>15323159 Ironically this is like the one book where one of the more homoerotic pictures would have been more fitting.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 13:33:00 2020 No.15345134 File: 37 KB, 320x500, 9781853260124.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 13:33:43 2020 No.15345143 File: 47 KB, 379x600, e041f74af36d7924fccfecd25ebf169f9ae21102-00-00.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The cover of the german version of 'heart of a dog'

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:29:42 2020 No.15345743 >>15343659 kek

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:37:36 2020 No.15345804 File: 34 KB, 300x464, AHOOT.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Still one of the worst covers, and it's not a Wordsworth.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:53:15 2020 No.15345908 File: 115 KB, 400x614, 9781853267437.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15319460 >>15337751 I actually quite like this one

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:54:51 2020 No.15345918 >>15321887 the anachronistic handgun just is the cherry on top

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:32:47 2020 No.15347446 >>15345804 This can't be real

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:47:33 2020 No.15347631 >>15343516 can't tell anymore which ones are real and which ones are photoshopped

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:02:19 2020 No.15348304 >>15318943 deeply unbased this shit the pinnacle

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:03:09 2020 No.15348316 >>15339458 Ah I don’t think you know the story about how this got published

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:07:15 2020 No.15348359 >>15348316 Morrissey acted like a diva and forced Penguin to publish the book under the Penguin Classics collection or else no deal, right?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:15:21 2020 No.15348447 >>15318943 >Badly photo-shopped pictures >Artist commission

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:47:24 2020 No.15348730 >>15323159 >>15321887 >>15318720 >>15331949 These covers are profoundly based. They've got to be at least semi-ironic.

Anonymous Tue May 12 20:17:36 2020 No.15349007

>>15322207
I bought huge numbers of them since I was very young as you used to get them for a pound each or something and the covers used to be absolutely fine with old paintings but I don't think I could bring myself to buy one of these things, I would have to rip the cover off to read it even if that's snobbery.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 20:24:24 2020 No.15349065 >>15318789 You made this, right? ... Right?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 20:24:49 2020 No.15349068 >>15333721 It might have honestly been a ploy to make their books a meme on social media and it doesn't matter if they hurt sales because they're the cheapest thing on the market anyway

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 20:43:36 2020 No.15349210 >>15343516 >watermark on his face I refuse to believe that even this one is a legit Wordsworth.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 20:45:21 2020 No.15349223 File: 83 KB, 400x665, 9781853260179.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Wew.

Anonymous Tue May 12 20:56:49 2020 No.15349292

>>15339458
>The book is not divided into chapters, and its opening paragraph lasts four and a half pages.
>Morrissey writes in the book about two serious romantic relationships he has had with a woman and a man. In the days following the book's release, he issued a statement emphasising that he did not consider himself to be gay: "I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many".
>Literary criticTerry Eagleton, inThe Guardianitself, wrote: "There is a relish and energy about its prose that undercuts his misanthropy. Its lyrical quality suggests that beneath the hard-bitten scoffer there lurks a romantic softie, while beneath that again lies a hard-bitten scoffer."
>Autobiographybecame the number one selling book in the UK upon release, setting a new first week sales record for a music autobiography.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 21:36:10 2020 No.15349527 >>15339274 >Eugen Sandow (pic related) used to visit museums to measure the ancient statues and get the proportions. He would then use that as the benchmark for training his own body. Based and greek-pilled

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 21:45:08 2020 No.15349577 >>15318908 >There is an equivalent to the wordsworth here in Brazil. Which?

Anonymous Tue May 12 22:22:37 2020 No.15349791

>>15345804
They did a similar contemporized thing with the ML version of Hadji Murat, except that had a dignified-looking Ichkerian soldier instead of a trashy Novorusskie.

>>15347446
Sadly it is. I got the Oxford edition so I wouldn't feel embarrassed reading it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 22:25:30 2020 No.15349806 >>15318368 They resemble illustrations from older editions. The only offense is uncanny valley.

Anonymous Tue May 12 22:26:31 2020 No.15349811

>>15324741
>holy keks, I live in Poland and Wordsworth is the cheapest way here to get original English books
>>15328068
Anons, you just teached me something.
I think now I'm gonna pick-up an edition of Moby Dick much sooner. These wordsworth editions are pretty affordable even overseas.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 22:31:26 2020 No.15349839 >>15321887 >2008 elementary-schooler facebook pfp

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 22:35:05 2020 No.15349865 >>15343516 Ben garrison

Anonymous Tue May 12 22:44:30 2020 No.15349913

>>15349811
Just buy used books. If you shop around or wait for a good bargain online you can get everything in a nice hardback that will outlast you for a few bucks. Paperbacks are even more dirt cheap and you can get ones from real publishers instead of this wordsworth shit

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:15:02 2020 No.15350069 File: 24 KB, 600x278, 2432432423432.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15349913 kek

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:16:17 2020 No.15350073 >>15321887 holy BASED

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:18:56 2020 No.15350080 >>15349223 how can a book publisher be so impossibly based and give zero fucks?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:24:30 2020 No.15350110 File: 45 KB, 374x600, images - 2020-05-13T002310.657.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15349577 Imagine the surprise of the 11yr old boy who thought that this was Aquaman

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:26:02 2020 No.15350119 >>15328886 least bad cover posted itt

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:26:57 2020 No.15350123 >>15350119 pleb taste

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:28:19 2020 No.15350131 >>15342049 "I draw yugioh cards and book covers" The book is good though

Anonymous Tue May 12 23:30:41 2020 No.15350141
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This thread surprised me because I was looking at my copy of Ulysses and thinking how much I liked the cover, so I googled it to realized there's an alternate cover. What's the story behind that

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:31:32 2020 No.15350149 >>15345804 pewdiepie?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:32:40 2020 No.15350153 File: 25 KB, 284x428, images (9).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Confessions

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:33:58 2020 No.15350163 File: 49 KB, 480x640, images - 2020-05-13T003047.097.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15350141 My Ulysses is the second had no idea about the other 2 -moby dick

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:34:15 2020 No.15350164 >>15350149 nah it's just some dude. the cover is 100% real btw

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:35:11 2020 No.15350169 File: 31 KB, 442x694, images - 2020-05-13T003138.656.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dorian Gray

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:35:26 2020 No.15350171 >>15350163 I'm pretty sure the first two are just shitty compressed images of the same edition, it's the one I have too, the third one is the one I didn't know about, not sure why it exists

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:38:54 2020 No.15350188 >>15350171 I guess they keep updating for the own morbid interests. I also own a Dubliners and a Portrait of the Artist, their covers are not that bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:38:57 2020 No.15350189 File: 60 KB, 400x665, 9781853260858.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >pls kill me

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:40:00 2020 No.15350199 >>15321870 >I am a sick Chad, I am a spiteful Chad

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:40:44 2020 No.15350203 >>15350141 Middle one is the current edition. First one was the previous one. And third one was from their (bigger) past meme days.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:41:00 2020 No.15350205 >>15350171 >>15350188 I just noticed that they do this with all their books, Dubliners has like 3 versions and Portrait of the artist has 2

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:46:05 2020 No.15350234 File: 150 KB, 400x621, 9781853262128.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 00:14:49 2020 No.15350373 >>15350234 It looks like he’s sticking his whole hand through a hole in her dress

Anonymous Wed May 13 00:53:30 2020 No.15350597

>>15318368
>>15350234
>>15333617
>>15333646
>>15340275
God hates me and birthed me into a poor family during the peak consoom era, products constantly vying for my attention screaming pick me and try me while I don't have any money. Some cheap paperbacks are affordable and I like reading real books. At least I can read English-language classics comfortably with no loss of experience (not gonna waste money on bad translations). Thank you, Wordsworth and Collins Classics.

>>15318943
>>15322283
>>15324579
It's more eye-catching than a plain cover and they don't have the means to design good eye-catching covers. That alone probably boosts profit. Visually, it also puts them more in the YA category. It's like the cheap version of nice-looking collectable covers that so many buy (and probably don't read or rather use as a display copy). The really 'out there' ones are either half-joking or the product of some random officeworker being forced to make them with their basic photoshop skills and no art skills. Then again, wouldn't the images be too expensive to buy the rights to? How did this come to be.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 01:50:33 2020 No.15350924 >>15350597 Signet and Dover are also good and on the same price range. They also offere some good translations.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 02:39:34 2020 No.15351103 >>15342049 Mystery Niggas

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 02:42:34 2020 No.15351113 This thread is too based. I'm going to buy Wordsworth exclusively now. Check out my stacks in future threads, plebs.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 02:53:06 2020 No.15351144 >>15350189 This is too good, too based, too much I-dont-give-a-fuck. I gotta lie down.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 02:56:37 2020 No.15351158 >>15318950 Unironically fitting.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 03:51:52 2020 No.15351357 >>15349292 fucking based

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 03:55:19 2020 No.15351374 File: 19 KB, 250x400, 9781853260995.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is actually pretty nice

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 04:00:26 2020 No.15351394 File: 17 KB, 255x400, 9781853260919.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15351374 I think most of the Virginia Woolf books look good too.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 04:04:34 2020 No.15351406 >>15318850 WE WUZ WITH THE ANGLOS >>15318929 Dracula on drugs >>15322324 That nigga from half life 2. >>15339585 Is that a grizzly bear in the jungle?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 06:30:56 2020 No.15352049 File: 10 KB, 180x281, 9781853260261.OL.0.m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] They used to have pretty kino covers, I don't know what happened

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 08:38:39 2020 No.15352658 >>15345804 >with a car you can go anywhere you want

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 09:01:54 2020 No.15352777 >>15352049 ...both those books are set in the Yukon in the winter...

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 09:13:17 2020 No.15352828 >>15319453 Is that Alf Garnet on the pony?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 09:39:18 2020 No.15352931 >>15352777 in person the colours are more faded, looks almost monochrome and more wintry

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 10:14:08 2020 No.15353084 >>15318720 NGL....I love it

Anonymous Wed May 13 12:21:54 2020 No.15353918

>>15318924
>Bible-thin pages
Sounds fine to me. Plenty of people keep their old bibles in good condition, so it should be possible.
Come to think of it, that would be a good test of character for a young person. Give them Wordsworth classics to read and see what condition they bring them back in. When they start showing proper care, then you can trust them with your more rare and expensive books.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 12:23:35 2020 No.15353930 >>15343675 and seducing his nurse

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 12:28:44 2020 No.15353973 >>15348316 Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VLaZHEBpUo

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 12:33:37 2020 No.15354003 File: 533 KB, 1521x2340, live and let die.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318943 >just the title >an improvement "no"

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 12:36:50 2020 No.15354025 >>15349292 >The book is not divided into chapters, and its opening paragraph lasts four and a half pages. So he went prog-rock.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 12:48:16 2020 No.15354098 >>15350069 Good point. Makes me think about all the library books I read as kid.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 12:55:14 2020 No.15354138 File: 279 KB, 1083x1600, Michael Traylor.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15350080 Well the company was founded by pic related, so it makes sense.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 12:57:19 2020 No.15354152 >>15354138 absolute madman

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 13:03:51 2020 No.15354195 >>15342049 i love me a good ghost story

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 13:05:00 2020 No.15354200 File: 45 KB, 313x500, 1542843638547.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15345804 got this eternal classic too

Anonymous Wed May 13 13:05:11 2020 No.15354201

>>15351113
>I'm going to buy Wordsworth exclusively now.
Could be a good long-term investment. Cheap things often go up in value, as most of them get destroyed and the product becomes rare. Papier mache antiques can be worth more than their wood equivalents, for example. If you buy a complete collection and keep them in good condition, your great-grandkids could inherit a treasure trove of antique books.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 13:06:23 2020 No.15354208 >>15345134 is that classic Paul Dano on the right?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 13:50:34 2020 No.15354488 >>15318929 >>15351406 Looks like Jaz Coleman after a bad night.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 13:51:39 2020 No.15354494 >>15352828 Kek

Anonymous Wed May 13 13:59:14 2020 No.15354550

>>15349527
>Based and greek-pilled
So many were back then. Max Sick and Alexander Zass were mainly doing isometrics for strength and conditioning, but they still looked way more aesthetic than so many bodybuilders of today. Also they had the whole physical culture movement coming out of Germany.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 14:01:35 2020 No.15354565 >>15318773 no fucking way

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 14:01:58 2020 No.15354569 >>15350110 It took me a second look to realize that was Leviathan. The Spanish makes it sound like a man who levitates things.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 14:02:38 2020 No.15354576 >>15354569 kek it's Portuguese, but yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 14:07:39 2020 No.15354613 File: 203 KB, 1083x1600, s-l1600.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15354152 RIP Michael Traylor

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 14:07:47 2020 No.15354615 >>15321814 Same here. These are fucking hysterical lol

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 14:10:36 2020 No.15354633 File: 594 KB, 2592x3872, R1z499T[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me? It has to be Everyman's Library

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 14:13:20 2020 No.15354654 File: 93 KB, 677x631, 1417269553297.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >you'll never live life like a character on a Wordsworth Classics cover

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 14:15:01 2020 No.15354661 >>15354633 this is a comedy thread

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 16:38:28 2020 No.15355663 >>15318368 Did they improve their covers? I bought three Wordsworth classics recently and their covers looked fine, nothing on the level of the shit displayed in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 16:39:58 2020 No.15355671 >>15355663 they are gradually improving, yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 16:40:05 2020 No.15355673 >>15318835 Is that Larkin love?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 16:42:48 2020 No.15355694 >>15355673 Coomer also it doesn't look anything like her

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 19:04:45 2020 No.15356743 Thank you all for the most BASED thread on /lit/ this year.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 20:18:40 2020 No.15357333 File: 117 KB, 655x1000, F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15354613 Press F to pay respects.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 20:22:02 2020 No.15357353 >>15354576 Ah, I need to go back to school. Based cover all the same.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 20:24:05 2020 No.15357364 >>15355671 I hope they never make them look normie-tier. These are too funny to abandon.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 22:10:56 2020 No.15358017 >>15343659 GUILLOTINE

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 22:12:34 2020 No.15358030 >>15357333 based trips F

Anonymous Wed May 13 22:47:35 2020 No.15358268

>>15350069
Once I was browsing through books at a thrift store and I found a condom wrapper used as a bookmark. If I remember right, it fell out on to the floor. Upon realizing what it was, I smoothly put it back into the book and stuffed the book back in to the shelf.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 23:09:04 2020 No.15358405 >>15358268 kek what the hell. do you remember what book was it?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 23:29:23 2020 No.15358508 >>15358405 No recollection.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 00:27:07 2020 No.15358809 >>15326799 no, buy the figueiredos' translation da companhia das letras

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 01:06:26 2020 No.15359052 File: 31 KB, 300x449, md30172498974.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15318368 wtf happened? I own a bunch of old Wordsworths and they look great, pic related is my favourite

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