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⌈ Secret Post #6421 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Nonny can you share an Amazon or G**dreads link to these editions, please? Because that is the level of nerdy I am here for too.

This is the one I was talking about!

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128170034-the-annotated-pride-and-prejudice

I'm currently reading the annotated Sense and Sensibility and have the annotated Persuasion up after that. So far, they do a good job of giving you a better idea of the social etiquette and customs and explaining the significance of certain expressions, or what it meant to have X income, stuff like that. I knew a little about it already, but it's nice to have the bigger picture. For people not familiar with the time period, it makes a LOT more sense.

Re: This is the one I was talking about!

[(Anonymous)]

Many thanks, Nonny.

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you censor goodreads?

[(Anonymous)]

I love my annotated Austens! I have both the Shepard versions and the Barnes and Noble versions. The BN ones are prettier, but the Shepard ones have a lot more info and explanations. As far as I remember, the BN ones have a different annotator for each book.

[(Anonymous)]

I've got the Shapard editions, didn't even know Barnes and Noble had done their own!

[kamino_neko]

I haven't read the ones in question (Austen's not my thing, annotated or no), but I do love a good annotation. Only one I can remember reading is The Annotated Alice, which I mostly remember for having the poems Carrol parodied (or at least saying what they were, so I could look them up myself, but I'm 99% sure the actual poems were there)...but I do know I've enjoyed most of the ones I have, since I love collecting random facts. (A good number of random facts I can't remember whence I harvested them probably come from them.)

[(Anonymous)]

That's on my reading list, too. :)

[meadowphoenix]

i love annotations! i even love novels with annotations as part of the conceit of the novel. there's so much you simply aren't going to get without a lot of research that improved or alter the reading experience. i totally agree OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a HUGE annotation nerd.

My idea of a fun afternoon is this: It's raining, and I'm in a library. I have a bilingual copy of The Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia) by Dante Alighieri. And I can read some of it till dinner. (Bonus points if I can come back to that large tome after my meal.)

Not everybody's cup of tea, but great fun for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I read an excellent annotated Picture of Dorian Gray back in high school and a lot of those particular footnotes were things I already knew but it did give me a thirst for annotated editions in general.

[esteefee]

me too, I co-nerd hi-five. I highly recommend The Annotated Alice -- Martin Gardner annotates Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It's absolutely incredible how chock full of easter eggs Alice is, let alone all the amazing context Gardner provides.