Are there typically major differences between the Penguin "Modern" Classics and the Penguin "20th Century" Classics editions of a book?
The one I've bought (pic related) is from the latter, but it was published in the same year as the "Modern" Classics edition.
>>7887872
what an unfortunate cover
>>7887915
>being this pleb
>>7887915
I would chuckle if the cover were the only difference between the editions.
>>7887915
It comes from the Portinari Triptych, and given Gaddis's goals with the book it's an appropriate cover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portinari_Altarpiece
>>7887985
It is.
>>7888163
To be fair, the covers are vastly different. By the way, can anyone post Gass's intro from the Dalkey Archive edition? I ordered pic related because I heard bad things about Dalkey Archive's typesetting in their edition of The Recognitions, but theirs is the only one with Gass's intro as far as I can tell.
>>7888170
My edition has Gass's intro as well (of course, we're here wondering what differences between them are). I wonder why the 20 page difference.
>>7887872
Modern Classics is British and 20th Century Classics is American. I think. We don't have Penguin Modern Classics in our book stores in America.
>>7888529
That would be a bit of a relief (I think). Nothing against the British aspect, but if I'm reading an American author, it would be nice to have an American edition of his work. Although I still wonder if that would be enough to account for the difference in pagination.
>>7889603
I think they're just printed in a different size. Like when comparing my Penguin 20th Century Classics editions of Gravity's Rainbow and Finnegans Wake to the standard black label penguin classics, they're different in terms of page sizes and the like. The black label ones use smaller pages I think.
