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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 9, 2021 20:14:24 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Nov 9, 2021 20:21:53 GMT
Oh dear. Now that's unfortunate.
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 9, 2021 20:47:59 GMT
Does anybody know who that is? |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 9, 2021 21:00:45 GMT
Does anybody know who that is? It is H G Wells. |
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 9, 2021 21:26:58 GMT
Does anybody know who that is? It is H G Wells. Thanks, I'm not a big fan so didn't recognize him. But I wondered if it was some other writer of horror/weird fiction. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Nov 9, 2021 22:19:52 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Nov 9, 2021 22:46:50 GMT
Holy Hell, Dr Strange! As I scroll, I keep thinking This is the most outrageous one... no This is... no, it's This...
Sighing.
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Post by Dr Strange on Nov 9, 2021 23:10:15 GMT
I particularly liked the one for Three Men in a Boat, which shows three different boats. And the Tolkein-themed one for A Short History of England borders on genius.
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 9, 2021 23:18:06 GMT
At least they got the colour right on "The Yellow Wallpaper", & "Call of the Wild" kind of makes sense.
My personal worst 10 are:
"The Importance of Being Ernest","Macbeth", "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", "Don Quixote", "The Autobiography of Ben Franklin", "Little Women", "Hamlet" "The Sign of Four" "Jane Eyre, & "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
Thanks for the (diverting) link, Dr. Strange!
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 29, 2021 22:48:22 GMT
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Post by dem on Dec 30, 2021 12:19:27 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Dec 30, 2021 14:04:07 GMT
The copyright notice of Sheba Blake is great.
Copyright 2017 by H. P. Lovecraft.
Indeed? That is not dead which can eternal lie and so on. But I guess John Bolton gladly gave his permission to use this commercially. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 30, 2021 14:50:05 GMT
The copyright notice of Sheba Blake is great.
Copyright 2017 by H. P. Lovecraft.
Indeed? That is not dead which can eternal lie and so on. But I guess John Bolton gladly gave his permission to use this commercially. I can only imagine these sort of publishers use out of copyright texts they have picked up on sites like Gutenberg and have some sort of random image search they use to pick up a cover from the Internet. I assume they use a few search words based on the book title. They probably do hundreds of books, that are printed on demand. If I search for an old book on my ebook site there are loads of these. Not often as bad as Sheba Blake though. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 30, 2021 15:16:01 GMT
Random this but, being a Londoner (you I mean), with a Londoners accent (see Dick Van Dycke in Mary Poppins) do you know any pearly kings or queens? And do you eat jellied eels? |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 28, 2023 12:23:32 GMT
 I find this to be ridiculous, this isn't even one of those joke publish on demand efforts. Mondadori are a major publisher. Another.  |
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