Separate editions

[Rute]

I have a fairly tiring task for you. These list of Sanditon editions by Jane Austen, http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition..., is a mess. There are editions of the Sanditon fragment (Jane Austen died before completing it), like this one: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55... , and editions completed by other writers. This should be separated, right? Besides, there are editions of Sanditon completed by different authors, yet the editions are combined. Ex.:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55...

Oh, and there is at least one edition with Anne Telscombe and Another Lady listed as authors, this one http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16... , but this doesn't make sense, since Telscombe is Antoher Lady (as in "Sanditon by Jane Austen and Another Lady").

Finally (aren't you tired already?), we have this German version http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67... that says it was completed by Maire Dobbs, but I'm pretty sure it's a typo and it's meant to be Marie Dobbs (you can see the name in the book cover). This author profile should be merged with Anne Telscombe, as Marie Dobbs is Telscombe's real name (stated in authors profile http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... ).

Thank you in advance!

[Lobstergirl]

I would say all editions of Sanditon should be combined, regardless of what the secondary author is, or if there is one.

[Rute]

Is that the GR policy in these cases? I thought they should be separated, because the original Sanditon is actually very short, so the bulk of the completed versions were written by the secondary author. It also can cause some confusion when you're reading the reviews (that's actually how I first noticed it).

Of course, I leave it to the librarians superior knowledge :)

[Lobstergirl]

I believe it's still policy that abridged works are combined with unabridged, so that's a similar situation to this one. And reviews are linked to a specific edition, so that isn't really a problem. (It's hard to see this, though, when you're on the reviews page.)

[Rute]

Oh, ok. I knew about abridged/unabridged policy, I just didn't think it applied here. When you have different secondary authors, you can have different plots and different endings, and you certainly have a completely different text, not just a few more or less chapters or scenes. But I can see how keeping them together makes it simpler.

[Tntexas]

Rute wrote: "Oh, ok. I knew about abridged/unabridged policy, I just didn't think it applied here. When you have different secondary authors, you can have different plots and different endings, and you certainl..."

So what you're saying is that it's kind of like a story starter English teachers use in school? Jane Austen provides the beginning of it and the secondary author takes it from there and ends it however he/she wants? That would provide for basically different stories in my opinion; but like you, I can see how grouping them all together makes it simpler.

[Rute]

Yup, that's what I think. Austen only provided a setting and a bunch of characters (with a very underdeveloped heroine), so there's plenty of possible ways to finish the story. Mind you, I haven't actually read the completed versions, so I'm not sure how different from each other they are.