A Certain Fondness

Cover Collection

  • Cover Collection: The Warden

    1. Penguin English Library // 2. Penguin Classics // 3. Oxford World’s Classics 4. Vintage Classics // 5. Dover Thrift Editions // 6. Modern Library One of my reading goals for 2013 was to read more Trollope because I so enjoyed The Warden when I read it last year. I did make a good start…

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  • Cover Collection: Cranford

    1. Dover Thrift Editions // 2. Vintage Classics // 3. Oxford World’s Classics 4. Pocket Penguin Classics // 4. Oxford World’s Classics // 5. Penguin English Library Like nearly everyone else on the planet, I fell in love with the Cranford TV series when it came out in 2008. I think I’ve watched it four…

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  • Cover Collection: Excellent Women

    1. VMC Designer Collection  // 2. Penguin Books // 3. Plume // 4. Virago Modern Classics // 5. Penguin Books // 6. Pan Books In honor of Barbara Pym Reading Week this month’s cover collection is of Excellent Women, Pym’s most famous and beloved novel. I own the Plume edition and it is my favorite…

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  • Cover Collection: Madame Bovary

    1. Penguin Classics // 2. Oxford World’s Classics // 3. Penguin USA // 4. Penguin Drop Caps //5. Vintage Classics // 6. Insel Verlag GmbH Oh, Emma Bovary! It seems people either hate her or sympathize with her. If I had to choose I would say I am in the sympathize camp because I completely…

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  • Cover Collection: Death on the Nile

      1. Harper // 2. Black Dog & Leventhal // 3. Harper Paperbacks // 4. HarperCollins // 5. Penguin Putnam // 6. HarperCollins I have very fond memories of Death on the Nile because it was one of the first Agatha Christie novels that I ever read. I’ve always had a romantic fascination with Egypt…

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  • Cover Collection: Tess of the D’Urbervilles

    1. Penguin Classics // 2. Oxford World’s Classics // 3. Vintage Orange Inheritance 4. Vintage Classics // 5. Pocket Penguin Classics // 6. HarperTeen These are very interesting covers and I don’t think I have a definite favorite. I’m leaning toward #5, but I also like #2. I’m intrigued by  the strawberry covers, too, but…

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  • Cover Collection: The Bell Jar

    1. Faber and Faber // 2. Faber and Faber // 3. HarperCollins Modern Classics 4. HarperCollins // 5. HarperCollins Perennial Classics // 6. Faber Firsts I mentioned in my previous post that I have a small obsession with Sylvia Plath and that on February 11 it will be 50 years since she died. It is…

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  • Cover Collection: A Room With a View

    1. Penguin Essentials // 2. Vintage Classics // 3. Penguin Books 4. Max Literary Classics // 5. Penguin Classics // 6. Hodder & Stoughton A Room With a View is one of my favorite novels. I have read it several times and adore the story of Lucy Honeychurch and her love for George Emerson. It is…

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  • Cover Collection: To Kill a Mockingbird

    1. Warner Books // 2. Arrow Books // 3. Vintage Classics 4. HarperCollins // 5. William Heinemann // 6. HarperPerennial Yesterday I saw To Kill a Mockingbird at the theater and it was sublime. It was just as wonderful as I’d remembered and Gregory Peck is magnificent as Atticus Finch. I haven’t cried so much…

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  • Cover Collection: O Pioneers!

    1. Oxford World’s Classics // 2. Penguin Classics // 3. Vintage Classics 4. Houghton Mifflin // 5. Signet Classics // 6. Virago Modern Classics I don’t have much to write about lately, so I am throwing out another cover collection for your enjoyment. I really like all of these covers, but I think my favorite…

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