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Fantastic quality-for-price tier: >Everyman's Library

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Fantastic quality-for-price tier:
>Everyman's Library

Cheap and serviceable tier:
>Modern Library

Beautiful, though sometimes overdone, binding (with outdated translations) tier:
>Folio Society
>Franklin Library

Consistently best translation (except P&V REEEE) tier:
>Oxford World Classics

Sometimes unnecessary POClit, sometimes overlooked classics, but mostly interesting tier:
>NYRB

Memeworthy covers and bad translations tier:
>Wordsworth Classics

Sweatshop-level translations but available at your Local Barnes and Nobleā„¢ tier:
>Penguin Classics
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your gay
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>>9587109
>not liking traps
>anno domini MMXVI + I
whose gay now
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>>9587124
Wtf I'm gay now? ? ?
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>>9587102
What about Dalkey
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>>9587102
nice pic
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>>9587102
26 dollars a book keeps us prestigious tier:
>Loeb Classical Library
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>>9587222
never heard of it before, but
>named after flann o'brien's non-existent philosopher
>trips
instant classic
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>>9587102
We know exactly how international contemporary literature awards work:
>Oneworld Publications
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>>9587239
oh yeah, now THIS is classic
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>>9587102
We're More Hipster Than NYRB:
>New Directions
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>>9587248
>tries to give opinions on publishers
>hasnt heard of dalkey
>lists only mainstream stufff based on /lit/ memes and preconceived notions

garbage thread OP kys.
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Comfiest handfeel tier:
>NYRB
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>>9587102
But Penguin has the McDuff translations for Dostoevsky, and Wordsworth has the Maude translations for Tolstoy.
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>Andrew George's Gilgamesh is a "sweatshop-level translation"
lad...
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>>9587281
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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your mildly alcoholic mother's source of modern fiction tier:
>FSG
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W.W. Norton & Company is objectively the best
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>>9587827
I hope you realize he never actually said that
>inb4 this is bait
I'm aware
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