Emma - Reading Schedule

[Deborah, Moderator]

May15 - Introductory Note through Vol. 1, Chapter IX
May 22 - Vol 1, Chapter X through Vol 2, Chapter I
May 29 - Vol. 2, Chapter II through Chapter X
June 5 - Vol 2, Chapter XI through Vol 3, Chapter II
June 12 - Vol 3, Chapter III through Chapter XI
June 19 - Vol 3, Chapter XII to conclusion

Rose feel free to adjust if needed.

[Deborah, Moderator]

Just a reminder. We start this on Sunday.

[Everyman]

I've begun reading. Well, re-re-re reading, or maybe one or two more res in there, but noticing new and interesting things with each re-read. I'm catching some of the subtle humor that I glossed over when I was more focused on the story and understanding the characters.

[Everyman]

How are the threads going to be posted? Week by week, or all at once at the beginning?

[Deborah, Moderator]

Everyman wrote: "How are the threads going to be posted? Week by week, or all at once at the beginning?"

Weekly as typical

[Everyman]

Deborah wrote: "Everyman wrote: "How are the threads going to be posted? Week by week, or all at once at the beginning?"

Weekly as typical"

Excellent.

[Jon]

Ok, I've got Emma in paper on my actual wood bookshelf.

[Frances, Moderator]

I'm reading a book book as well.

[Everyman]

Frances wrote: "I'm reading a book book as well."

I also. In fact, you can drool if you wish: I'm reading a Folio edition I bought many years ago when they were semi-affordable. (Sadly, they no longer are, at least not for one of my means.)

[Rosemarie, Moderator]

I am reading a hardcover from the library. We can renew a book three times if there are no holds on it. It is an Everyman edition!

[Lily]

Everyman wrote: "...I'm reading a Folio edition I bought many years ago when they were semi-affordable. (Sadly, they no lo..."

I don't know Folio editions. What makes them special? Are they one of those series with wonderful illustrations et al, as well as beautiful bindings, end pages, and rag paper? (Obviously not ones to apply Milton Adler's admonitions about notating, but of the type which he calls "art"?)

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/adler...

I see several special annotated editions of Emma are available. (Deborah tells me of yet another, by David M. Shapard. I have enjoyed his work on other Austen novels.) I haven't checked yet on the availability of a Norton Edition. My paper copy is a Barnes & Noble classic, the inexpensive type recommended to use when issues like quality of translation do not apply. I've had it for a long time, but only now am I reading it deeply, along with listening to the audio.

(Here is a link to the Folio Society site, which gives clues as to what Eman is writing about: http://www.foliosociety.com/ )

A currently available Emma: http://www.foliosociety.com/book/EMM/...
(The web page has some interesting commentary re Austen and Emma.)

[Everyman]

Lily wrote: "I don't know Folio editions. What makes them special? Are they one of those series with wonderful illustrations et al, as well as beautiful bindings, end pages, and rag paper? .."

Precisely. It's a subscription service; you have to become a member and choose a certain number of books each year (it used to be four) from their catalog. They published about a dozen books a year, at least in their early days. Magnificent editions, boxed rather than dust jacketed, with commissioned illustrations and, usually, some fancy design on the cover. Nowadays you can often find them in second hand editions, but in the early days that was rare, so they had to be bought new through the program.

Their early selections were almost all classic works -- not merely novels, but travel, biography and autobiography, history, poetry -- but as they ran through the obvious candidates they had to search farther afield for titles, and the quality of the books (though not of the production values, those remained extraordinarily high) dropped. I notice, for example, that now they're publishing, for example, more contemporary books, and have even started publishing paperbacks (though pretty fancy paperbacks, at $34.95!)

(The Library of America has had the same problem of having to find more and more work worth publishing that people will want to buy at a relatively high price point.)

http://www.foliosociety.com/

[Everyman]

Lily wrote: "A currently available Emma: http://www.foliosociety.com/book/EMM/...
(The web page has some interesting commentary re Austen and Emma.) ."

that's a more recent edition than the one I have, which was from a complete set of Austen published, as I recall, at one or two volumes a year.

[Emma]

Because my copy of Emma has the chapters numbered consecutively, rather than volume by volume, I've just checked how the chapters in the reading schedule translate. For anyone else with the same issue, here is the list:

May 22 - Vol 1, Chapter X through Vol 2, Chapter I = chapters 10 to 19
May 29 - Vol. 2, Chapter II through Chapter X = chapters 20 to 28
June 5 - Vol 2, Chapter XI through Vol 3, Chapter II = chapters 29 to 38
June 12 - Vol 3, Chapter III through Chapter XI = chapters 39 to 47
June 19 - Vol 3, Chapter XII to conclusion = chapter 48 to end

[Abigail]

Thanks for the translation, Emma! It must be a little odd to be reading about your namesake; I don’t often get a book with an Abigail heroine, but it always feels weird to me.

[Rose]

Emma wrote: "Because my copy of Emma has the chapters numbered consecutively, rather than volume by volume, I've just checked how the chapters in the reading schedule translate. For anyone else with the same is..."

Thanks a lot, Emma!

I started putting the translation in this week's topic, because I found an edition at home which has the chapters numbered consecutively too!

:)

[Lily]

Rose wrote: "Emma wrote: "Because my copy of Emma has the chapters numbered consecutively, rather than volume by volume, I've just checked how the chapters in the reading schedule translate. For anyone else wit..."

Thanks here, too. The audio version is consecutive chapters.