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For questions about the history of the manuscripts, printed texts, or orally transmitted versions of a single work; or when and where a work was first published; or specific features of one or more editions; or how editors establish an accurate or authoritative text, etc. Not to be confused with the [publishing] tag, which is about publishing practices generally, or the [historical-context] tag, which is about relevant background information.
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Why were "Daisy-Head Mayzie" and "My Many Colored Days" not published until after Dr. Seuss'...
For My Many Coloured Days, probably because he didn't find a good enough illustrator.
My Many Coloured Days, apparently the only posthumously published Seuss work to be written entirely by the man him …
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What is the origin of this contradictory poem?
It's old. Like, really old. So old that it's impossible to tell where it originated.
The book The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona and Peter Opie, published in 1959, catalogues many differ …
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Have Kenneth Muir's poems ever been published as a collection?
According to this article ("Kenneth Muir", Proceedings of the British Academy 97 (1998), pp. 393–409):
There is a selective bibliography of Kenneth Muir’s writings, 1937–79, in
the book of essay …
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Why is the order of The Chronicles of Narnia changed from original publication?
The question of reading order for The Chronicles of Narnia is a complicated one, with much debate even among avid fans of the series. But you've asked only why publishers changed the order, which is m …
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Was The Forty Rules of Love originally written in Turkish or in English?
Kinda both?
To add to Gallifreyan's answer, I found an English-language interview with Elif Şafak for the Turkish newspaper Zaman, which used to be available here (although the newspaper was terminate …
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Is there a useful "entry-level" annotated edition of Le Morte d'Arthur?
The edition I own of Le Morte d'Arthur is the Penguin Classics version in two volumes:
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I'd highly recommend it for someone who's accustomed to reading English literature wit …
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