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Samsa
07-26-2012, 09:51 PM
Amazon has copies published by Wordsworth Classics, OUP and Penguin. I've heard that some publishers omit certain features like the black page and I'd prefer a copy that included them. According to Wikipedia there are some illustrations by George Cruikshank so it would be nice to have a copy that included those, too.

Amazon's product descriptions are useless when it comes to this kind of thing so I was wondering which edition the users of this site prefer.

Charles Darnay
07-26-2012, 10:05 PM
I have the penguin edition and love it, and believe it has everything in it. I studied Shandy in a class taught by a Shandian (he has done a lot of research on the "novel") and he selected the Penguin edition as the choice (most available) edition class.

It has the black page, blank page, marble page and all the tangents you can want!

Samsa
07-27-2012, 06:54 AM
Thanks for the advice. I'll pick up the Penguin edition.