[Vwoolf] To the Lighthouse: edition with UK text distributed in US?
Edward Mendelson
edward.mendelson at columbia.edu
Fri Aug 2 10:21:02 EDT 2024
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Another question for the list:
For a class this autumn, I want to teach the British, not the American,
texts of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Mrs Dalloway is easy: the
newly reset Penguin edition has a superb introduction by Elaine
Showalter and an intelligent edition of the UK text by Stella McNichol.
To the Lighthouse is more difficult: the reset Penguin edition, with its
excellent text, has a cartoon cover by Alison Bechdel that uses words
that aren't in the book and which seems more like vandalism than
illustration. I can't bring myself to assign that edition. Is there any
other readily available in the US that uses the UK text (identifiable by
ending "The Window" with "For she had triumphed again.", where the US
text ends "She had not said it: yet he knew.")?
The elegantly-printed Vintage paperback of Mrs. Dalloway uses the UK
text (reproduced from the Everyman's Library edition from a few years
ago), so I hoped the Vintage paperback of To the Lighthouse would also
use the UK text, but, alas, it uses the US text.
It's impractical to ask students to order books from the UK, so I'm
hoping for something that a college bookstore can order in the ordinary
way. Any help will be gratefully received.
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