What's your go to publisher for classics in general?
>>25593254I touch the "download" cursor with my index finger. It's fucking 2026, anon.
>>25593261Sure, but in general which firm is still upholding quality?I mean, I get lots of stuff off Annas too...and a lot of it is badly formatted, whether that's how it was issued or if it's been tampered with.
>>25593254i am a sucker for cute designs
>>25593254I don't have a go to but I refuse to ever buy a Penguine Classics ever again. Half the pages the ink is too thick and the other half too thin. To an awful degree.
>>25593254Probs Oxford tbdesu
Whatever is cheapest if it isn't a translation and whoever has the best translation if it is.
I buy Everyman's Library because I like hardcovers. Sometimes I'll pick a different publisher if they have thicker paper or wider margins. Makes for better annotating.
>>25593254Usually Oxford, especially if it's an old enough book that's likely to have a lot of notes in the back. Oxford does a great job with those and sometimes come with some other helpful shit. The Wuthering Heights I read was from Oxford and it had a family tree in there because the writing made it pretty difficult to wrap your head around how everyone was related. They're also just a nice comfortable size.Penguin has several "classics" editions so I can't speak for all of them, but some Penguin classics do seem to have just mastered comfortability. I read a Steinbeck "centennial edition" a while back and aside from the deckle edges the book was maximum comfortable. I'm reading picrel rn and it's also super comfortable.Not a fan of Norton but it's not bad enough where I won't read one.
i will repost something i said in an older thread about why i recommend the norton critical for moby-dick:did you know that the title of the first chapter is a reference to nautical terminology? i didn't question it the first time i read it.a little bit later on ishmael says>"head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim)"that i did question. the edition i was reading had no note on this. i had to look it up. the pythagorian maxim he refers to here is "avoid beans". i resolved i would not read any further until i found an edition that made reference to this, and the norton critical edition is what i found. it also has a lot of supplementary material added on the end. i most especially enjoyed the article by jeremiah reynolds about the killing of the real life albino whale "mocha dick", which article melville was known to have kept a copy of.no one is going to read every footnote or every extra article, but it's there for you to read as much of it as you want.
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>>25593254Everyman's Library or Norton Critical Editions, depending on whether I expect the book to be difficult or not.
>>25594249Which one do you prefer for difficult books?
>>25594266Norton obviously. Annotations and essays at the end are really helpful.
>>25593254For Moby-Dick, avoid this specific Oxford version. The gay ass cover (forgot what that "style" is called again, shitty Google title page core) should be indication enough, but it also has a terrible introduction plagued by modern politics. Other than that I think OWC paperbacks hold up better than Penguin, but Penguins feels more pleasant to read font-wise. The OWC fonts can get tiny.Honestly though unless you're, like, using your paperback books as a football or something you can expect them to last you a long time and maybe even outlive you. I have Penguins here from the 60s that still hold up well, and I've read my copy of The Red and the Black like 8 times and it's not falling apart. The cracked spine is only an aesthetic issue most of the time. People here hate them because they're popular with "foids" on tiktok or whatever, but I like em. I'm a paperback reader and they're cheap and publish most the greatest books of all time
>>25593254Really depends on the "classic" in question. The best overall pick is Norton Critical, with some pretty big exceptions; sometimes their translations are subpar, and their Shakespeare editions pale in comparison to Oxford. But gun to head I have to pick one, then Norton.
>>25593254What's yours and why?
>>25593810Astarghfillulah, un vrai con. Euhhh...jveux dire un vrai consommateur.
>>25593254Anything I can get for $1-$3 at the local library sell-off. Got a Norton Critical Edition of The Sound and the Fury in good shape for $2 recently.
>>25593261Ok, but which publisher do you download?
>>25595121The same one as you do.
>>25595121Based on my taste? Oxford.
>>25593261>>25595123retard
>>25593307even the Norton misses quite a lot in Moby-Dickif I had world enough and time I would add more annotations to it
>>25593290I just wish their dostos weren't p&v translations.
>>25593284This. I genuinely couldn’t give a shit as long as it’s cheap and perusable.
Depends on the poet. Just takes some cursory research. Ie Arden for Shakespeare.I really don't care about having annotations or commentary for novels, they're novels for fuck sakes
I do not buy the vintages with the red spines, they use awful paper and the spines crack all over. Penguin uses bad paper these days too, and their printing is poor, but they're a little better constructed. Oxford World Classics is probably the best of the bunch, but the covers start to get delaminated in an ugly way if I carry the book around too much.For hardcovers, Everyman's Library is good but they don't always have comprehensive collections, and they'll choose bad translators like Pevear & Volokhonsky. They also use tiny, ugly print in some books like Brothers K. Library of America is my favorite, but they only publish Americans. I'd kill for an English Pleiades.
>>25594441Thank you. I'm an imbecile and an ignoramus, you see.
>>25593254This book (Moby Dick) just got a very nice facsimilie reprint of the Random House hard cover edition. Before past Tuesday I would have gone for the LOA version.
For most classics I just pick the Bantam, Signet, Wordsworth, or Dover paperback, whoever has the best cover.
>>25593254I'll probably get OWC if it's available. Penguin seems to have a larger catalogue though
>>25595555I'm kind of shocked Everyman's has all of Poe's short stories but not his poetry.
Penguin or Oxford depending on the cover and availability.Arcturus are for if you are really broke.
