Fwd: "Thomas Pynchon said, grandly"

[Mark Kohut]

yea, useless, I concur.
   
  It is basically marketing--that cover; reasons to "resell" and get more books into stores and, one hopes, to more readers;
  a way to brand a line with books worth being 'singled up in that line', cheerly.
   
  MK

Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
  
--- Mark Kohut wrote:

> But Penguin Classics was a new series they
> launched a few years ago. You will notice GR exists
> in two paperback versions from Penguin.

And somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but the
"Classics Deluxe" version ...

http://us.penguinclassics.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143039945,00.html

... has the same pagination as the "Great Books of the
20th Century" ed. ...

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/engl52b/GR.jpg

... vs. the "20th Century Classics" one (my fave) ...

http://us.penguinclassics.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140188592,00.html

... which has the same pagination as the 1st ed. ...

http://www.waste.org/pynchon-l/grcover4.jpg

... and then there's the Bantam ed. ...

http://www.waste.org/pynchon-l/grcover3.jpg

... meaning, the Frank Miller cover version is
completely useless with the "critical apparatus" ...



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