Sense and Sensibility
Austen
original: 1811
Submitter: A super boring textbook from the 90s or a classic in large print? Which Dashwood sister is banished to the red chair in the futuristic building? So many public domain images could have been used – flowers, English countryside, fabric, etc….
Holly: I tried to find this cover on Amazon to get the copyright year of this edition. (I didn’t find it). There are lots of weird covers for this book! This is one of the strangest, though. This cover has been used for other random books such as A History of Mathematics by Florian Cajori, A History of German Literature by Wilhelm Wackernagel, and my personal favorite: Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of Lancaster by Henry Fishwick. Not an awful library book, just a weird cover.
a tedious book with a cover evocative of nothing….
No, a wonderful book, like all of Jane Austen! I first read Pride and Prejudice on summer vacation after my freshman year in high school and fell in love.
Maybe from a bindery?
Actually, that is Hester Prynne’s chair. She was paying a visit to the Bennetts.
I think you’re wrong – this is an awful book. I have never been able to read Jane Austen. Sorry.
So sorry to hear that — you have missed some wonderful novels. But, if you were possibly trying to read Jane Austen with the original punctuation, you should try a modern edition — I am a big fan but just can’t get very far into the two-hundred-year-old versions. Just not readable to me.
All of the other books you found with the same picture also use the same cover font.
That looks like a picture of the Seattle Public Library central branch downtown. That is a singularly weird choice for an image for this book.
It’s so generic it makes me think of that perogies book.
Pierogies in the chairs would make a much more intriguing cover for a British classic!
Wilhelm Wackernagel is a real person LOL?
There are publishers who put out editions of works that are in the public domain, and they will slap a stock cover on it, with sometimes amusing results. For example, see these covers:
http://www.tower.com/book-publisher/tutis-digital-publishing
and these:
http://www.tower.com/surf/explore/nav_exp/nav_1_browse.cfm?div_id=1&cat102=1109&label=Tutis%20DiGital%20Publishing&format=26
That is just a print on demand cover. I see them all the time. I personal wont buy them for my collection. There is a lot of quality issues with those types of books.