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9286782 No.9286782 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw there is a million editions of each classic and don't know what one to get

>> No.9286788

>>9286782

Yang teitoku

>> No.9286793

Lifehack: Be poor and storm Goodwill, you'll only have one choice of which edition to get - the one that's there

>> No.9286813

Tell me what classics, and I'll tell you what editions.

>> No.9286821

>>9286813
Moby Dick

>> No.9286891

>>9286821
If you want notes...
1. Norton Critical Edition = heavily footnoted
2. Oxford World's Classics = decent amount of end notes
3. Penguin Classics = light number of end notes

If you want a handsome edition...
1. Everyman's Library
2. Library of America = also comes with Redburn and White-Jacket

All these editions use the "Northwestern-Newberry" critical edition of the text.

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9286917

>>9286891
Thanks, but all future opinions discarded. I was a testing you, as the real answer is pic.

>> No.9286923

>>9286917
Isn't that like a hundred dollars?

>> No.9286950

What's the strength of that version anyway?

It uses the same text as the others.

And if it's illustrations you want, you want the classic illustrations by Rockwell Kent, which are included in the Modern Library edition.

https://www.amazon.com/Moby-Dick-Whale-Modern-Library/dp/0679600108

>> No.9286982

>>9286923
$1000

>> No.9286989

>>9286891
Could you're usual Engly Major feel comfortable reading Moby Dick without footnotes?

>> No.9287021

>>9286989
Sure.

>> No.9287037

>what one to get

>> No.9287061

>>9286891
I can confirm Norton is excellent. The footnotes are almost always useful and never excessive. There are also many additional essays and lots of other neat stuff.

>> No.9287067

>>9287061
Yeah, it's a good edition, I own it, but wouldn't you say it's better for a second read in which you were going to study the novel? I opened to a random page and looked at the notes, and they were about Melville's sources, where he might have gotten the idea for this, which seems like information a first-time reader doesn't urgently need. Was that never your experience?

>> No.9287074

>>9286917
Huh, that doesn't look like the Franklin Library edition