Hello, NabLers (that term is great! I can't get over it... It is so funny)
A.Bouazza is right to remember the Collins Collector's Choice with the
preface by Peter Quennell. Actually, this was my first experience with a
Nabokov novel and for years I had no idea there was a foreword by a
fictional John Ray Jr. In my opinion, it was an editor"s oversight and not
deliberate.
Simon Rowberry, you could also check pirate versions of "Pale
Fire" about the inclusion of an Index in them. I found at least two illegal
reproductions using the Google - but I didn't examine them.
Jansy Mello.
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Enviada em: quinta-feira, 11 de julho de
2013 05:25
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] [QUERY]: Pale
Fire Index in e-books
Just an aside: the omission of John Ray Jr.’s foreword has a
precedent in Collins Collector’s Choice edition of 5 novels by VN. This
1979 edition contains Lolita, King Queen Knave, The Gift,
Invitation to a Beheading and Glory, and an introduction by
Peter Quennell –instead of Ray Jr.’s foreword.
A. Bouazza
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Dear Nabokovians,
I'm currently in the middle of investigating the digital transmission
history of PF and have discovered that the UK Penguin Kindle and iBooks
editions of the text do not feature the Index, yet another example of an
erroneous decision to remove part of the fiction in Nabokov's works (c.f. the
replacement of John Ray Jr.'s foreword with one from Martin Amis). This is
most likely based on the 2011 Penguin 9th printing by the text. I don't have a
copy of that printing, does it also contain the error? Could anyone who has an
e-book version of PF aside from the the UK iBook and UK Kindle versions let me
know if their copy contains the index with the name of the publisher and the
device/app the e-book can be read with at simon.rowberry@winchester.ac.uk?
Many thanks,
Simon