Broadview Literary Texts
Price: £4.99, technically, but it was a giftHistory: I remain endebted to my friends and family for my awesome, and growing, collection. Friend 4 bought this for herself in the first weeks of university because she forgot her own copy, and passed it on when she got home. It's a lovely beastie.
Look: I strongly approve. It's otherworldly, this book - funny colours, funny fonts, but somehow it works. The text is very small, but the pages are very soft. I like it. It is also nowhere near this red in real life, the red is less bright.
Introductions/appendices: This would be a great copy for someone who wants to read a little further than the text, without drowning in academia. There are brief footnotes throughout for the weirder references, a nice introduction, and a series of short appendices (extracts from other relevant works, some trial excerpts, something on A Rebours, and an interesting page on "langour"). If you want to do a proper uni-level essay on the novel, Number 27 is still the one to look for, but this would be perfectly servicable for GSCE/A-Level, or people who just want a little more context.
You can have a flick through this on Google Books, including a better peep at the cover.
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