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EDNOTE. Suellen Stringer-Hye is the long time compiler of a series of
"Collations" summariziing news of VN in the media. Many of these are now in
the Zembla web site.
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From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
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> Combining two recent threads. From VNColations #10
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> The November 16, Evening Standard reports this amusing anecdote.
> Everyman Press, for a new edition of Lolita has,
> "...just made a textual error in a new edition for the Everyman
> Library resulting in the abandonment of its first run. Such a
> disaster was the last thing the firm had in mind when it
> commissioned Martin Amis ... to write a fresh introduction to the
> novel.
>
> So delighted was the publisher, David Campbell, with Amis's 19
> pages that he substituted them for the book's foreward, written by
> John Ray Jr, PhD."
>
> Amis called it a "a naive editorial error," a fact that does not in
> any way diminish its charm.
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
>
"Collations" summariziing news of VN in the media. Many of these are now in
the Zembla web site.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (24
lines) ------------------
> Combining two recent threads. From VNColations #10
>
> ***********************************
> The November 16, Evening Standard reports this amusing anecdote.
> Everyman Press, for a new edition of Lolita has,
> "...just made a textual error in a new edition for the Everyman
> Library resulting in the abandonment of its first run. Such a
> disaster was the last thing the firm had in mind when it
> commissioned Martin Amis ... to write a fresh introduction to the
> novel.
>
> So delighted was the publisher, David Campbell, with Amis's 19
> pages that he substituted them for the book's foreward, written by
> John Ray Jr, PhD."
>
> Amis called it a "a naive editorial error," a fact that does not in
> any way diminish its charm.
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
>