Delightful new edition of an old book

[prog]

Yesterday's completely unexpected purchase was this edition of Lady Chatterly's Lover, entirely due to its covers and flaps being covered with delightful comics by Chet Brown, a favorite cartoonist whose distinct style bludgeoned me with its surprising presence as I walked past the "Classics" shelf.

The front cover is an illustrated excerpt from the book, the back cover is a tiny (but complete) cartoon biography of D.H. Lawrence, the front flap has a brief examination of the author's relationship with his wife and the rear flap lists his own possible extramarital affairs. Awesome! I had to buy it, both to own and to encourage more cool crap like this to exist.

Comments

[dictator555.livejournal.com]

Are you actually planning to read it or have you already? I was surprised to discover that I really liked LCL when I read it. It has some very cool turns of phrase.

[prog.livejournal.com]

It's on the pile!

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I read Lady Chatterly's Lover when I was 16ish. I recall rating *every other* chapter quite highly; the ones containing lots of boring old fools rambling on about nothing not so much.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

there's a similarly awesome edition of candide. i don't know about the translation (and this is one of my favorite books of all time, so i'm nervous about that), but the cover is incredible.