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Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 12:21:10 -0700
To: classics@u.washington.edu
From: David Lupher <dlupher@ups.edu>
Subject: "For classics, read Penguin." (was: Re: TAN & fit Mike Tyson)

Terrence Lockyer wrote (inter alia):
>		  And then, of course, the "Classics" (i. e., anything
>published by Penguin, OUP, Wordsworth or Modern Library in a series of that
>title) section of one local bookseller seems to be the favourite
>dumping-ground for surreptitious browsers of "adult" fiction and perfectly
>respectable titles from GMP.

Speaking of the "classics" sections of some bookstores, I was struck by the
ads in TLS's latest classics issue (April 19).  First come impeccably
classsical
ads of Transaction, Cambridge Univ. Press, and a full-page ad touting the
Loeb Classical Library.  But on the back of that last is another full-page
ad enjoining us: "For classics, read Penguin."  So what Penguin covers did
they select for this issue?  Christina Rossetti's "Complete Poems," Hildegard
of Bingen's "Selected Writings," Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," Frances (my,
I'm old enough to remember when they called her "Fanny"---but not old enough
to remember when they called her Madame D'Arblay) Burney's "Journals and
Letters," Arthur Conan Doyle's "Study in Scarlet" (I wonder if they peddle
that one aggressively in Utah), "Njal's Saga," and Thackeray's "Vanity Fair."
Not a single classical text on display here!

David Lupher
Classics Dept.
Univ. of Puget Sound



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