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Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. Im Land der Schmerzen | In the Land of Pain. Alexander Verlag Berlin, 2022. Pp. 124. 21.7 x 11.6 cm. ISBN: 9783895815713. French passages translated by Dirk Hemjeoltmanns and English text translated by Bernhard Liesen. (German).
Includes Julian Barnes’s introduction, afterword, and notes.
The copyright page contains an error to the ISBN by transposing “978” to “987”. The correct ISBN is printed to the back cover.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Elizabeth Finch. London: Vintage, 2023. Pp. 178 [179] + [7]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9781529116076.
First UK paperback edition. Also featured is a promotional bookmark for the novel.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Niveles de vida | Levels of Life. Barcelona: Compactos Anagrama, 2022. Pp. 143 + [9]. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Jaime Zulaika. ISBN: 9788433960023. (Spanish).
This example is the second Compact edition of Levels of Life, published in July 2022. It retains the same ISBN as the first Compact edition published in 2017.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Jonathan Cape, 1989. Reader’s Collection edition.
The Reader’s Collection edition is the first Jonathan Cape edition with the addition of a special book plate designating it as part of the “Reader’s Collection” series. Prior to publication, the “Reader’s Collection” distributed a sample chapter of the novel.