Posted by Lale on 23/9/2009, 14:43:56, in reply to "Re: All the information required on the book cover"
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There was a note in my edition, I just found it. It is very brief and it may not mean what I thought it meant. With respect to this passage in "Book Second, Chapter II"
He remembered for instance how he had gone back in the sixties with lemon-coloured volumes in general on the brain as well as with a dozen - selected for his wife too - in his trunk ...
the notes say:
lemon-coloured volumes: The usual colour of French paperback novels.
The lemon-coloured volumes come up a couple more times in the novel, Strether likes buying them. With the brief footnote, I was sure it referred to the NRF editions, because they really are very famous. But their current colour is nowhere near the colour of a lemon, and I thought maybe the colour had changed over the years.
Lale
