tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post1307358209707636938..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Onion Sauce! Onion Sauce!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-49944922366703180262009-06-06T23:09:28.040-05:002009-06-06T23:09:28.040-05:00Thank you, Anonymous, for sharing the Gauger editi...Thank you, Anonymous, for sharing the Gauger edition's positive reviews like a good publicist. <br /><br />Katherine Powers's <i>Boston Globe</i> review notes specific lapses in both the annotated editions. That takes her judgment beyond the subjective into the objective realm.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-54917282656344130842009-06-06T22:03:20.858-05:002009-06-06T22:03:20.858-05:00A good annotated edition? Gauger's edition is ...A good annotated edition? Gauger's edition is fantastic. You haven't even read the book yet you assess it based on one reviewer's comments. Look at the other press, and maybe go check out the book from the library. <br /><br />BOOK REVIEW: Revisiting world of Mole and Ratty | Washington Times - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...<br />May 28 from delicious <br />Ms. Gauger's annotated edition includes transcripts of the magazine, the 57 letters from governess Naomi Stott detailing the daily events in Mouse's life, and all of Grahame's letters on which the novel is based. Like her biographical introduction and her discussion of Alastair's magazine, this supporting documentation provides revealing insights into the psychological and social genesis of "The Wind in the Willows." - W. W. Norton <br /><br />www.wamc.org/prog-bookshow.html<br />Show #1,081 - week of April 6<br />Annie Gauger - An instant bestseller on its initial publication in 1908, The Wind in the Willows has become one of the greatest books in children’s literature. Scholar Annie Gauger has uncovered extraordinary new material on Kenneth Grahame, his troubled family life, and the origins of the story. With a stirring introduction by Brian Jacques, The Annotated Wind in the Willows promises to become the authoritative edition of this classic work, published just in time to honor the author’s 150th birthday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-73566246608173923752009-05-07T17:59:00.000-05:002009-05-07T17:59:00.000-05:00Since I read the Boston Globe newspaper on actual,...Since I read the <I>Boston Globe</I> newspaper on actual, you know, <I>paper</I>, I forget that there are interactive features to these columns.<br /><br />Gauger’s response to Powers’s comments is classy, and exactly what I’d want to see from an annotator: pleased to find new insights into the text and new information to share with readers.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-797028709155168352009-05-07T15:18:00.000-05:002009-05-07T15:18:00.000-05:00Sheesh!I wonder what they make of Toad's fecal fix...Sheesh!I wonder what they make of Toad's fecal fixation? After all he keeps saying "poop poop."<br /><br />Have you read the comments to the post, in which Gauger responds?Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09492841891625994218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-29009300614390809392009-05-07T13:12:00.000-05:002009-05-07T13:12:00.000-05:00I don't know of any annotated edition besides thes...I don't know of any annotated edition besides these. And I worry that, as in the principle that "bad money drives out good," these two are good enough and now established enough to prevent any other publisher from attempting a new annotated edition for a generation. (Well, a publishing generation—say, fifteen years.) <br /><br />We might also be at a moment when annotated editions give way to wiki-annotated editions. Instead of a solitary scholar, or scholar with graduate students, preparing notes on a classic text, we might have that public-domain text on a website, with the public invited to add notes about anything within their expertise. <br /><br />In that case, a <I>Wind in the Willows</I> fan with culinary knowledge might have caught the full significance of the “Onion sauce!” remark while a fan who knows Scottish battle cries would interpret Mole's yell. And someone who knows early-20th-century cars could write about Toad's automobile, and so on. <br /><br />As in other wikis, the process of assembling such a group-annotated edition would be messy and open. (As opposed to the process of assembling traditional annotated editions, which is messy and private.) The result would probably include some overreaching—but then so evidently do these editions.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-6081962859493194112009-05-07T12:36:00.000-05:002009-05-07T12:36:00.000-05:00This is one of my all-time favorite books, and I d...This is one of my all-time favorite books, and I didn't know any of these facts. The derivation of "A Mole! A Mole!" particularly adds to my appreciation of that scene - I guess I'd always just passed over that bit. Powers' explanations make me wish there was a good annotated version - is there? I just have my plain copy from childhood.Emilyhttp://underagereading.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com