[Starting a Classics Collection - Penguin Popular Classics or Wordsworths]

Jane Eyre is in both. I think I'll check them out in Waterstones, if they stock them.

 

Thanks for your help

[Do men enjoy Austen Novels as much as women?]

Just started Sense and Sensibility. Doesn't seem too girly at the moment!!

[Best version of Don Quixote?]

Sorry, me again Just needed your opinions on the best translation of Don Quixote.

[Starting a Classics Collection - Penguin Popular Classics or Wordsworths]

As others have said, both of the editions you mention are unfortunately pretty dismal. The black-banded Penguin Classics are good translations on acceptable paper; the Oxford Classics range is good paper-wise provided you get the newest editions (i.e. the ones with the brighter, whiter covers; the slightly older ones are fairly bad quality), I can't vouch for their translations but their introductions and notes are good in case that makes a difference.

 

I like my classics hardbound and oversized, such as those of Fine Editions, who unfortunately are fairly new and therefore only have a handful of available titles at the minute. The Collector's Library are very good if you want something pocketable, they're printed on very thin but good paper, which means that as long as you don't have a problem with smallish print you can take any classic around in the tiniest of purses. I personally don't like the special edition Penguins (the covers don't feel too durable), but I think I'm the minority there.

 

These Collector's Library ones you mention, are they the same size as a typical paperback?

 

Also if you had to choose between Fine Editions and Penguin Leatherbounds which ones?

 

Thanks for all the answers. Looks like I won't be ordering any penguins.

[Starting a Classics Collection - Penguin Popular Classics or Wordsworths]

I'm looking to start my collection of classics, which of these two are better in quality? I prefer Wordsworths blue covers to Penguins garish green. But which of the two has better paper quality and print? I also heard that some wordsworth translations of foreign literature aren't very good?

 

Or is there an alternative? Who's the publisher of your Classics?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Do men enjoy Austen Novels as much as women?]

Thanks for the replies. I found a nice boxset with all 6 Austen novels for

[Do men enjoy Austen Novels as much as women?]

It seems like there's hardly any men on this forum!!

 

Question for the ladies then. Do you think that Austens novels are aimed towards women or are they like typical classics which can be enjoyed by all?

 

I've just got this assumption that Jane Austens books are very feminine.

[Do men enjoy Austen Novels as much as women?]

I always see Jane Austen novels in all-time best lists, and was considering reading Sense and Sensibility. I'd like to know if any men here enjoyed her books?