Why Are Wordsworth Classics So Ugly? [CC]

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Exploring the hideous depths of Wordsworth Classics cover design. They're cheap... but are they worth it?
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Комментарии : 36

@ellie698 3 месяца назад

I buy nearly all my books second hand 📚📚📚📚 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@patricialux6197 2 месяца назад

3. That was fun. Your commentary on the covers is so funny!!😂

@kanashiimurakamisan Месяц назад

As this video highlights, the quality of Wordsworth paperbacks is greatly underrated. Many people assume cheaper equals inferior. Not so. While Wordsworth’s font is indeed smaller & their former covers weren’t aesthetically pleasing, the longevity of their paperbacks generally holds up well against significantly pricier Penguin editions. Many Penguin editions are still over twice the price of Wordsworth editions of the same titles. Not knocking that as Penguin also publish many more titles. As for the new Wordsworth book covers? To each their own as in all things, but I like the newer, more artistic designs. I already have a good number of them & intend to buy more. I just wish there were more titles to choose from.

@ellie698 3 месяца назад

5:06 OMG I laughed out loud at your description here 😂😂😂😂😂 (And i agree, terrible cover for such a great novel... who is that girl supposed to be? It's certainly not Anne Elliot 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️)

@readingbytheriver5752 3 месяца назад

It was good to see Bill. I enjoy your discussions of book covers. Thank you. BTW I got 3.5 - I chose one covered changed my mind at the last min.

@gaildoughty6799 3 месяца назад

Entertaining and informative: the best of both worlds. Interesting history on cheap books. Thanks, Claudia.

@MothGirl007 3 месяца назад

I'm living for these book cover reviews of yours - thank you so much! 😻

@HamsavahiniVajraasthra 3 месяца назад

Hi Claudia😁!!! Dracula!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Wordsworth Classic 👍👍👍👍👍I can never forget that cover 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍! Still watching this video 😁!

@Nina_DP 3 месяца назад

Great video, Claudia, and excellent prop work from Bill! I guessed 3 out of 5.

@ellie698 3 месяца назад

Haha, a very entertaining and informative video. Great work, Claudia 👍🏼

@TheDanishGuyReviews 5 дней назад

Made a new list of classics I own to prevent buying doubles, and I found I own 14 Wordsworth books. And those are just the ones I could easily remember the location of. I love charity shops, so none of them were ever more than £3.

@salty-walt 3 месяца назад

I still don't know why wordsworth has some truly abominable covers though.

@suzannebousquet2710 3 месяца назад

What a great video! Thank you!-

@LanaCelebic 3 месяца назад

This was so much fun!😅 I got 4/5, missed the North and South, because I have a different edition. It's also black Wordsworth, but it has people on the cover. I have a soft spot for these editions. I own 30ish of them, mostly black covers and a few blue ones. I didn't know about the new ones, they look so much better. Thanks for this video. 😊I had fun and learnt something about the company.

@HamsavahiniVajraasthra 3 месяца назад

😊This was one of the most interesting videos I've watched in a while & loved the Guessing Game- I scored 3 out of 5 😁! Will definitely try to check the new editions of Wordsworth Classics now if they are changing the cover designs! Thanks a million for sharing 😊👍👍👍

@SpinstersLibrary 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much and well done on the game!

@MothGirl007 3 месяца назад

@@SpinstersLibrary So much fun, and I hope you will do more of these in the future.

@katebowers8107 3 месяца назад

Aeneid = eh-KNEE-id (at least how I was taught to pronounce it.

@apollonia6656 3 месяца назад

Here is a question.....please help 🙂 I have the Oxford World Classics edition of Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins (love his novels but not this one so much ); anyway, the cover. I have seen that cover of the two women in another book but cannot remember which novel or whether 🐧 or Wandsworth. Any duggestions, please ? Thank you. Regards from GB.

@apollonia6656 3 месяца назад

PS: Subscribed 🙂

@jf8559 3 месяца назад

3/5! Really enjoyed this video!

@SpinstersLibrary 3 месяца назад

Oh dear - what does a booktuber have to do to get 4/5? 🤣

@jf8559 3 месяца назад

😂

@suzannahdarcy6903 2 месяца назад

As for falling apart like wet confetti and teeny tiny print, I find Dover Classics worse than Wordsworth. Their covers are boringly pleasing though

@still-reading 3 месяца назад

3 out of 5. Moll Flanders was so bad I wanted to guess that but didn't dare. Lol

@salty-walt 3 месяца назад

You should look into the affordably priced academic publishing juggernaut "Dover Classics" who, in the 80s introduced their line of "Dover thrift editions" at $1 a copy! They changed the covers in the 2000 the thrift editions are no longer thrifty, and some of the most ugly covers you've ever seen - a shame because Dover Classics from the 60s still have bright white pages with sewn in binding!!!

@PageTurnersWithKatja 3 месяца назад

For 1 i was also already shouting pride and prejudice and it's not an option 😂 but i got it from the blurb. 2 i knew as i has that cover 😊 Your tenant of wildfell hall is better than my wordsworth one. Doing what in the birdbath now? 😮🫣😆 3 i own so i got (feels like im cheating🤭) I got 4 wrong - i dont know how 😜 Thanks for the edition comparisons amd the history 🤩 Got 5 right 🎉 Great format; lots of fun ❤

@mrsfruity76 2 месяца назад

These book covers are pretty "terrible", but I like them. The updated covers are aesthetically pleasing, but don't have as much character, imo. The bad covers are more memorable ....Dracula 😅.

@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk 3 месяца назад

Some fantastic books there. Best wishes.

@saralynghaug5299 3 месяца назад

Got 2!

@concettascalise5835 3 месяца назад

Ciao Claudia ❤

@apollonia6656 3 месяца назад

Sorry, they are £3.99 now 😯

@AbiofPellinor 3 месяца назад

By this point I'm more disappointed by the aesthetic covers 😂

@SpinstersLibrary 3 месяца назад

I know right? Commit to the ugly already...

@Clowreads 3 месяца назад

In the book cover guessing game I got 4 points I only have one Wordsworth classic book the one with the blue border and it's Cranford and other stories by Elizabeth Gaskell

@ellie698 3 месяца назад

The new style of covers is AWFUL. Blingy. Yuk! I prefer the older copies, hands down