Posted by Rizwan on 23/9/2009, 15:27:02, in reply to "Re: All the information required on the book cover"
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I think your interpretation is correct, Lale. I read the Norton edition of "The Ambassadors" recently, and I'm almost positive the note for it went into detail about the NRF books that passage referenced. I will check again, though.
In any case, that Camus book in the photos looks perfect. That's exactly how the classics, anyway, should be printed.
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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
:
