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Anybody want this Frankenstein
I've got a cool edition of the less-usual FIRST edition of Frankenstein (most copies you find today are the, in my opinion, inferior 2nd edition) that is super well-annotated with really helpful footnotes. Anybody want it? My program upgraded to the 3rd edition of the 1st edition so I have a new one.
Free to first comer. Unfortunately it has my notes filling it also which is why I can not sell it at Powell's.
Somebody grab this rad book! Just in time for Halloween!!
Free to first comer. Unfortunately it has my notes filling it also which is why I can not sell it at Powell's.
Somebody grab this rad book! Just in time for Halloween!!
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I just like it better. The 2nd edition = Shelley drastically rewrote the book like 20 years later, excising some of the creepier stuff, changing whole characters and subplots, adding in weird shit making the Creature's appearance more explicit, occluding the incestuous tinge to the Victor/Elizabeth relationship. I just like the first edition better. I generally always prefer the version that's closest to the original gestation-point. I prefer 1818 Shelley, young, prancing around with Byron and Percy, mourning the death of her first baby, haunted by her ghost-story/abortion/creation nightmare. 2nd edition Shelley is widowed, sad, perhaps too much guided by criticism of her work from outsiders, etc. I think there's value in looking at the "final intentions" of the artist, but I also like the first output.
both are interesting but I usually just like the first versions of things....I guess I think of them as a purer window into what the artist was interested in/thinking about when they got the idea in the first place. Esp with something like Frankenstein, which is so incredibly rich with political subtexts relating to philosophical debates of the time period, you know? ALSO it's just cool to read the 1st edition because the one people are generally familiar with is the 2nd.
Anne Mellor has argued that the 2nd edition is largely a different book than the 1st. She talks about how Shelley's personal tragedies (Percy drowning; additional miscarriages; penury and shame and being disowned by her father and by Percy's father; etc.) convinced her that "human beings are mere puppets in the hands of destiny," for example, which is very much NOT the message of the first edition. Free will is a huge issue in the plot of the first edition. etc. etc.
LT you should make sure to read the introduction, which is long and awesome and gives you lots of clues for stuff to think about while you read the story.
LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH
Who put out this edition?
But yeah. Original language--this seems even clearer-cut than original edition. So many jokes and nuances and delicate shadings that just don't translate, even under the most skillful hands. Plus, you know, you miss learning somebody's real voice. It's a great sadness for me that I don't actually know the Voice of the guy I wrote my dissertation on. I only know him in translation. That barrier seems melancholy
Possibly an exception to this is Kant--my German teacher used to insist that Kant was harder to read in German. I find this pretty funny.
As I thoroughly enjoy Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, I have a small collection of differing translations "from the German..."
We have a first edition of Learning From Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi. Typically sells for upwards of $1,000. Has been stored properly, good condition, etc.
SUCH a beautiful and interesting book! All about Vegas, Vegas history, anti-Modernism, Maximalism, and addressing what people really want in design instead of the ego of the designer.
I can't imagine that any of you want to spend close to grand on a book? But, before I list it on ebay, here it is! I will disclose price to any interested parties.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780262220156-0
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=3822420
http://www.divisionleap.com/cgi-bin/akd/sell.html?id=CEQFKXDM
I'll totally call Division Leap, but if I sell to a bookstore I'll get much less $$ than if I sell it to an interested person.
If I sell it I can keep my car running, hooray! I'll probably put this online.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=h&fe=on&tn=Learning+from+Las+Vegas
And we have our own research in the making of beings: http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events/news/2012/10-24-ohsu-researchers-test-ne.cfm - experimental fertilized embryos made from 2 eggs and 1 sperms.