How is the Wordsworth edition of Ulysses?

After finishing the paperback I will give it to goodwill or something like that.

it's the error filled 1922 edition. not recommended

> Oh no! they are dead, and the only thing awaiting me is now ... the punishment for my crime!

Is Wordsworth one guy; like one designer out there with a singular vision?

Or is it multiple designers following a policy of design?

Either answer sounds utterly ridiculous to me.

that's because you're treating it like they wanted the designs to have aesthetical value.
[and not just make them cheap and pass the savings onto you]

I have a professor who does that and she always gives it to whatever student she comes across and wants the book. Go ahead, it's great

Why buy Wordsworth anything, you ask? Well, I have two short story volumes from Arthur Conan Doyle and William Hope Hodgson from their Tales Of Mystery and the Supernatural range and I am happy with them. They are as smartly presented and sturdy as paperbacks from any other publisher.

And given that the range also contains collections from Robert Howard, Poe, Stoker, Kipling, Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce etc etc, I would suggest that Wordsworth is pretty good publisher for collections of 19th/20thC genre fiction..

The Bodley Head 'new' edition, 1968-1984 (Pre Galbler), is the handiest most compact/best hardback edition of Ulysses.

Not that there is anything wrong with the Everymans library, it's just about ½ of an inch taller and ½ inch wider and very similar thickness.

They are similarly priced too but good condition copies of the right Bodley Head hardback are becoming scarce.

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Buying an image off Getty is cheaper than buying a supply of crack for whoevers job it is to photoshop random shit together for no reason at all

Holy shit, those books would have been so much better if they sold them with blank covers.

The covers supposed to be ironic, you morons

Oxford books need to be larger. Bigger books become wider than they are tall

Yes clearly, that's what mass-market paperback publishers are known for; decreasing their profits by defacing their paperbacks with ironic images.

I think a better explanation is that the designers over at Wordsworth are just immensely out of touch with the aesthetic senses of the kind of reader that reads Voltaire. They design covers that would suit smut series for middle-aged women better than works in the canon of the classics. I don't think they deliberately designed ironic covers, for if they did so on purpose, they'd also be aware of how it would decrease their sales (because not everyone wants to be seen reading a paperback with an embarassing image on the cover, which is true for some of the titles that Wordsworth puts out).

To add to this, I think Wordsworth isn't a particularly savvy publisher.

There is a business gap between the garbage quality of Wordsworth titles at 4-5 euros, and the overpriced Penguin books at 10-15 euros.

Their paperbacks are of such low quality compared to Penguins, that it just doesn't make sense NOT to shell out a few bucks more for a Penguin edition of a title. If they'd raise the quality of their paperbacks to the level of Penguin books, but kept the price a little bit lower than the Penguins (which is possible, because Penguings are imo overpriced), maybe even at just 150% of the price as they are at now, they'd become the bestselling publishing house overnight. As it stands now, normal bookshops don't stock Wordsworth, because the dissatisfaction that a buyer of Wordsworth experiences, would ruin the reputation of that bookseller. Wordsworth could overcome that if they'd spend just a little bit more on the materials that their paperbacks are made of. Someone prove me wrong.

you wrote way too many words

Nah he's pretty spot on I'd say

no it isn't lol, how much crack do you need for 5 minutes in gimp/paint/photoshop per image cover?

and buying images off Getty would literally be the less tasteful of the two choices

I'm currently reading my copy and it's quite nice actually and it's feeling relatively sturdy

Then get it for free as an e-book. It's public property, you're not giving money to anyone.

>tfw I bought the gay porno looking cover of the iliad

I regret it

lmao

i have a couple because i found them cheap (used) in person

This isn't the board for you

I;ve bought them for two reasons:

(1) they have, or have had, particular things that weren't readily available elsewhere, or were unique to the series (e. g. at the time, Frederick Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh, TE Lawrence's translation of the Odyssey, and the old Loeb translation of Apuleius based on Adlington, with the expurgated bits added); and,

(2) I've used three online booksellers where I get free delivery if my order is over a limit, and Wordsworth books are cheap enough to add on so that I paying only for books, and nothing to get them to me.

The covers of Wordsworth are the best part. The cover for The Idiot is my favorite.

>I know the quality of the book won't be great

My older Wordsworths have generally survived as well as other mass market paperbacks with similar use. Recent ones I have (Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, Don Quixote) are all manufactured by Clays, the same company that manufactures Penguin Classics and Oxford World's Classics, though the Wordsworth materials seem cheaper.

I think the major reasons Wordsworth are so much cheaper is not the physical but the content production costs: they generally use public domain texts and translations, with minimal original editorial matter and short introductions (whereas recent Penguins and OWCs have substantial introductions, notes, etc.).

>mfw Wordsworth covers

burn all wordsworth

Please stop giving them money

because the quality is just fine

What about dover thrift editions?

I buy Wordsworth routinely, in part because I live abroad and it's all I can get but also because I'm not a fucking hoarder. I buy books to read them, so I don't really give a fuck about the cover and I universally prefer mass-market where available.

Likewise, there are very, very few books one needs to own for a lifetime (). When I buy a copy of Huck Finn, it's to read and then toss. This is especially true for classic literature. Any time I want, I can pick up a new copy of Portrait of an Artist for a dollar basically anywhere ($2 brand new here in China) or, if I live in a civilized country, I can get it for free at the fucking library. Why would I clutter up my house with stacks of paper that I won't read again for years?

Finally, I read the Wordsworth Ulysses with meme cover. I bent it backward and forward and it came out just fine. In fact, fared much better than the Penguin copy of CPR I read. It's absolutely fine. The only reason you'd not buy it is if you just buy books for bookshelf threads.

All that said, the translations mostly suck. I am usually willing to shell out more and out up with non-mass-markets in the case of an obviously superior translation.

Not a problem with Ulysses, fortunately.