Something for the bibliophiles
All of you book fanatics (and you know who you are) might find this site useful: booksprice.com. The site searches a wide variety of online booksellers and presents you with the best price. For instance, a search for Jane Austen brings up a list of different editions of her novels, which is really helpful if you’re searching for a certain edition. They have DVD search and music search as well, and you can even set up an RSS Price Watcher feed to watch the price of a particular book or edition.
Also you might find something really fun like the rather hilarious cover of an edition of Persuasion that is included with this post…not the funniest cover of an edition of Persuasion ever, but close.
April 30th, 2007 at 11:44 am
I love those new covers! I’m as old-fashioned as they come, but the covers are delightful. They still get at the essense of Jane Austen…in a whimsical,fresh way. There, I’ve said it.
That hilarious “best cover ever” reminds me of when I used to play the “Barbie at the Prom” game in the 70’s. I love Captain Wentworth’s tight white shirt. Makes me want to whistle…
April 30th, 2007 at 11:51 am
We could always draw vampire fangs on CW to make it a bit more like that Other Cover. Kidding of course.
I’m drooling over the site. Thanks!
April 30th, 2007 at 11:55 am
RE: The Man in the Turtleneck Sweater
I will never imagine Captain Wentworth in the same way again!
April 30th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Haha, I unfortunately own this version of Persuasion! The cover always reminds me of a Western saloon …
April 30th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Donna Rose, I like those “new” covers, too–they’re a bit twee perhaps, but not outrageously bad like the others I’ve linked. They’re appealing and hopefully will bring new readers to Jane.
April 30th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Speaking of old covers, this website has every cover of P&P that I’ve ever seen…and then some.
http://www.librarything.com/work-swap/1505
You need to scroll way down, past all the ISBN numbers listed on the left side of the page.
April 30th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Thank you! That link went straight to my bookmarks. I only knew http://www.eurobuch.com/index.php?lang=e so far.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Hahaha, I own the edition of Persuasion with the “funniest cover ever” (the one starring Regency Barbie). I always thought it was quite ridiculous too.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:02 am
*sighs* Sarah, I, too, own this cover. It’s the first Jane Austen book that I bought, IIRC, along with a stunningly-covered version of ‘Northanger Abbey.’ I spent ages trying to identify which girl was which; assuming that they are Anne, Henrietta, and Louisa, they all look the same age. Now that you mention it, it does look a lot like a Western saloon. Certainly, I’d expect those tans in the wilds of America, more than for fine ladies in England. I’ve always thought of Anne was being a bit pale and peaky, until she gets her bloom back, and the Musgrove sisters are too vain to venture outside without their bonnets.
May 1st, 2007 at 2:25 am
I thought they were in Molland’s (doesn’t that look like the Abbey outside? Not that you could see it from Molland’s, but never mind) and the two ladies were Elizabeth and Mrs. Clay, rather outrageously flirting with Captain Wentworth, the hussies, while poor Anne bites her hand in torment.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:53 am
I’m so pleased that you shared this cover with us, because I’ve just discovered a Persuasion plot point that I’ve been missing this past 20 years - will she follow her heart, or her father’s advice? That Anne is always paying heed to dear old Dad …
May 1st, 2007 at 9:13 am
I thought this was supposed to be the inn at Lyme, but maybe not.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:34 am
I thought Lyme too.
May 1st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
When Harlequin first started to publish the Georgette Heyer canon, I had hopes that they would be more attractive than your average Harlequins (US version of Mills & Boone). Boy was I wrong. So now, I buy my Heyers from Canada and the UK because Arrow, the UK publishers, does a much better job.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:19 pm
I bought Persuasion with the new cover (it was the only paperback I lacked), and I sort of like them. Not great, but quite nice. But I think in 20 years time, they too will look funny and outdated, like the covers featured here. Quite a few books from the seventies have covers just like in the editions of Persuasion featured here.
I don’t know if anyone here has read Carolyn Keene as a kid, but I remember those days more well. In the early 1980s, the local library had three or four editions from different dates circulating, and everybody had their own favourite version of Nancy Drew (mysteriously called “Neiti etsivä” - Miss detective - in Finnish and renamed Paula Drew). The covers from the 1970s were my favourite, and they looked pretty much like the Northanger cover linked somewhere here.