Oxford World Classics vs Penguin

btw here's my small Oxford collection, what other book should I get from them?

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in that case oxford wins every time

moby dick and don quixote

>Norton has had plenty of duds.
Really? I own at least 5 or 6 (War and Peace, The Metamorphosis, The Canterbury Tales, The Prince, Pride and Prejudice, and Moby-Dick I think) and the worst thing I could say about some of them is sometimes the print is too small but my eyesight has never been great.

It appears that the books look much better irl than in the online cover templates. Just ordered the Canterbury Tales based on this picture. Tristram Shandy also looks gorgeous.

Usually Oxford, but they have some pretty cucked introductions, having pages-long warnings about misogyny in Euripides' plays or in Nietzsche's works, for example.

I just opened one OWC book of mine ( Mesopotamian Mythology ) and it doesn't say that it was printed on acid-free paper.

Neither, but at least Oxford doesn't have that Black spine that immediately looks like garbage once read.

Generally I don't mind either of them but I slightly prefer the look and feel of Oxford. Currently going through their Lovecraft collection and it's quality.

I would buy Norton if had the money. Their editions seem to be filled with essays and whatnot. Sadly I'm a poorfag. Their covers are total memes, though.

>... cucked introductions, having pages-long warnings about misogyny in Euripides' plays or in Nietzsche's works...
Maybe I shouldn't laugh, 'cause that's depressing as hell, but it's darkly funny too.

>misogyny in Euripides' plays or in Nietzsche's works
That sounds hilarious, are they worth reading for the lolz?

>Their editions seem to be filled with essays and whatnot.
This is a negative for me. Ideally I want to have no introduction, no illustrations, and no annotations.

Is Middlemarch worth a read?

>Their covers are total memes, though.
Penguin Classics Deluxe are even more so.

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They look like tumblr tier fan covers. And the Deluxe editions have those horrible deckle edges that only autists and hipsters like.

JUST

I fucking HATE the spine of the OWC KJV. Who made that fucking decision? Get Moby Dick.

What in the actual fuck lmfao

>Penguin Classics Deluxe
>Deluxe
You're paying often 2x more for a worse product than their normal classics volumes. You deserve bad covers.

>Great Expectations
Are they copying the Skinhead meme?

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Go big or go home.

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>Is Middlemarch worth a read?
Absolutely.

lmao

Say what you will about Oxford but they can have some very aesthetic covers sometimes.

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>that bible
>1000+ pages in toilet paper-tier paperback form

Lol nope.

Nice

Wild idea here: get what you want to read.

That's how bugmen work. Even literature is just merely consumed, rather than read.

Swap out your virgin Paradise Lost with the chad Major Works

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I'm sad to report I lready have them in other editions (B&N for Moby-Dick, Alfaguara for DQ).
I know, I was just trying to get recs. I'll get Melville's short stories and Stevenson's Kidnapped (surprised to see they have this one) next.
Fuck off. You don't know me, faggot.

nice

yeah, I grew up christian and i'm used to the usual hardcover/leatherbound. seeing the bible packaged like a novel is strange

>deckle edges
I kinda like them

I'll eventually get a nice hardcover KJV Bible.
I'm Catholic so the KJV is basically a novel for me lol

I didn't mean to mock you, what I'm saying is that doorstoppers like the bible are not suited for paperback releases because it's just too fucking thick to not get all deformed even after just one end-to-end read.

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Does anyone know how's Oxford's War and Peace translation?

Penguin is easily the better publisher. Most of Oxford's translations are unreadable. Their only advantage is better endnotes in most cases and spines that don't go to shit the second you start reading.

It has the GOAT Maude translation.

i have many more penguins their paper quality kind of sucks, but i cant recall if oxford is any better

>Penguin
This

Penguin is a shit publisher, how's Morrissey's Autobiogry a modern classic? For fuck's sake.

Autobiography*

Or the Norton Critical Edition.

Polite reminder that both Gallimard and Éditions de Minuit covers are vastly superior

Oxford without a doubt

You have no respect for history.

Penguin has a bigger collection and does much more to try and translate and put into circulation out of print, untranslated and new works. Goat publisher really.

>reading translated Don Quijote
Don't fucking read it

Jealous paddy fuck off

Its a slightly revised version of the maude with the french text is annotated on the bottom. Its very good

You should get some Russian classics. They usually have the best translations.

Acid free is a fucking meme and means nothing unless the paper is made from cotton.

I have that same edition of Paradise Lost and the cover always makes me smirk; it looks like he's just tossed some sort of hand grenade.

Anyone who has purchased books of the Penguin Clothbound Selection care to give an opinion on them - as of the paper and hardcover quality, overall durability etc.?

for me, it's signet classics

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To me it seems he's a meme template for "begone thot"

>Canterbury Tales
>translated

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Wrong pic

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>mfw I buy a book based on which has a better cover over translations
Why am I like this?

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I don't feel committed enough to get the original version. I barely speak English lmao

Because you're a normie

Patrician choice