Re: Frankenstein
Lee Passey <[email protected]>
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On 11/26/2012 10:22 AM, Jon Hurst wrote: [snip] > I am intending to do the cross-checking with #84 at some point over > the next month or so, so I'll send any errata once I'm done. I wouldn't bother. The PG version of Frankenstein has been the subject of probably more analysis than any other work stored at PG. The inescapable conclusion, is that the PG version is a true Frankentext, stitched together from at least two, possibly more, extant version of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, at least one of which is still probably under copyright in the U.S. (Mary Shelly herself published two separate versions). See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/22105 and links cited therein. Interestingly, the version of e-text #84 referenced in that message (from 2007) was number 16. The current version has no version, but was uploaded in 2009. The latest prior version in the /old folder is 15, uploaded in 2005. It would appear that someone (Al Haines, who credits himself as being the author of the HTML version?) replaced version 16 without moving a backup of that version to the /old folder. The Wayback Machine at archive.org may still have a copy; otherwise, that little nugget of history may have been lost. Thus, it will likely be impossible to reconcile e-text #41445 with #84, particularly given the fact that #41445 was apparently derived from a single scanned edition. My suggestion is to use #41445 as the basis for your preferred typography, and to ignore the very existence of #84. I would also suggest that as you move forward with improving #41445 that you regularly check in interim versions to your account on github.com so that /that/ history at least can be preserved. Another simplistic page viewer (which needs some serious debugging) for Frankenstein can be found at http://www.ebookcoop.net/ebookcoop/ (registration required, but any bogus data will do because I'm not yet doing any validation). So far, only seems to work on Firefox, and I haven't taken the time to figure out the vagaries of other browsers. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected] http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d