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Post by justincase on May 31, 2012 17:05:17 GMT
I have to concur.. while I can appreciate what Mr. Jones has attempted I personally feel it is a subjective endeavor at best and that it should remain as the author had it in its original presentation. Lovecraft's work was returned to it's author's intended presentation while in this case I somewhat doubt Mr. James would be overjoyed with the revisions.. (as you can see I don't use a prevalence of paragraphs myself, lol)
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Post by andydecker on May 31, 2012 20:51:29 GMT
This is a difficult topic. I looked into a James edition I have, and frankly, whole pages without any paragraphes are difficult to read. I can understand the decision.
On the other hand, editing a classic? Difficult.
Of course this is also a question of what an editor can do for a writer. Sometimes an outsiders view can help to make things better. This doesn´t excuse the treatment the magazine writers got back then when the editors did what they like with the material without asking the creators.
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Post by noose on May 31, 2012 22:05:35 GMT
Steve sent me the file to A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS and looking at the others on the Amazon preview, I think it's a bold move - but he pulls it off. As much as I love reading the works of James, I was quite often confused by it (blame me schoolin' guv!) - this makes it more cleaner and I don't have any problems with what he did. In the same way I don't mind how ST Joshi prepared corrected versions of Lovecraft's work. I've just read this back, t'was written after morning dose of drugs to keep me right, I don't even know WHAT I was trying to say about ST and Lovecraft, but I'm sure my intentions were good
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 8, 2012 14:50:26 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 9, 2012 12:34:51 GMT
There already has been a competition to complete "The Game of Bear". The Ghost & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter 15 (May 2009) contains the text of winning entry and the two runners-up. I found them all worth reading. It'll be interesting to see what kids come up with.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 4, 2012 16:28:47 GMT
Stumbled on this - it's a magic trick incorporating a facsimile reproduction of a first edition Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and an 'ambrotype' of Monty. Only £150. www.lebanoncircle.co.uk/Ghost%20by%20Prof%20BC.htmlA bit of googling tells me this trick can be done with any hardback with a dust cover (though I'm no wiser as to how it's done) - still, the MRJ link is a nice touch. Pity about the price.
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Post by galleytrot on Sept 29, 2012 13:58:54 GMT
Here's an image ready made for an MRJ anthology. I came across it recently; it's an old postcard of King's College by moonlight. I like to think it gave Monty the inspiration for 'The Mezzotint'. Attachments:
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Post by justincase on Sept 30, 2012 14:54:18 GMT
Here's an image ready made for an MRJ anthology. I came across it recently; it's an old postcard of King's College by moonlight. I like to think it gave Monty the inspiration for 'The Mezzotint'. Do you know the age of this card? Very cool indeed.
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Post by galleytrot on Oct 1, 2012 9:15:31 GMT
Sorry, I don't. It's the usual story: I downloaded it a while ago, but I can't remember where from. Repeated searches have turned up nothing. Spooky!
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 1, 2012 16:38:25 GMT
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Post by justincase on Oct 1, 2012 20:01:24 GMT
With that age it very well could have influenced Mr. James.. What a great link - thank you!
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zaraath
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Post by zaraath on Jun 23, 2013 6:47:42 GMT
While Curious Warnings has been delayed there is a preview of the Kindle version on Amazon. The text has been re-paragraphed and re-punctuated. While I am against this, I do admit that the pastiche parable that M.R. James included in "Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance" could have done with rewriting. It seems to go on forever. I think that lends it a historical verisimilitude. Those Jacobean God-botherers did go on at length.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 4, 2016 15:07:27 GMT
Here's an image ready made for an MRJ anthology. I came across it recently; it's an old postcard of King's College by moonlight. I like to think it gave Monty the inspiration for 'The Mezzotint'. This seems the best place to put this: Moving pictures! Whatever next?
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 2, 2016 12:59:22 GMT
Pan Macmillan has acquired the independent publisher Collector’s Library and re-launched as Macmillan Collector’s Library. These very nice and well-produced pocket-size hardbacks include a new edition of Stoker's Dracula (14 July 2016) and M.R. James's C omplete Ghost Stories (26 January 2017). I think the MRJ cover is for "The Ash-Tree". I prefer the Stoker cover.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 3, 2016 9:49:51 GMT
Tending to be more of a traditionalist in these matters, I think that Atkinson Grimshaw's stuff adapts very well to MRJ. Grimshaw's "moonlights" are especially fitting and share James' Englishness...
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