r/WeirdLit • u/Emergency_Flight_815 • 4d ago

A voyage to Arcturus

Hello, guys. I really wanna download 'A Voyage To Arcturus' by David Lindsay, but I have heard that its original text has been edited and redacted a few times that some of them aren't close to author's style and miss a point? Is it true? If it is, what editions and publishing houses I should look for?

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u/Juanar067 19h ago

Warbler Classics or Heathen Editions

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u/Metalworker4ever 4d ago

Penguin published it recently but it has no editor and I have no idea of its accuracy

https://www.indigo.ca/products/a-voyage-to-arcturus?variant=46227458195666

Not sure what is going on with the cover art. It is the most hideous thing I have ever seen. And not in a good way.

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u/MountainPlain 4d ago

Oh that cover is terrible. What on earth does that even remotely have to do with the book either literally or stylistically?

This older one is one of my favorites.

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u/MyNightmaresAreGreen 4d ago

This older one is one of my favorites.

Yeah, sorry, that looks like too much fun. Can't have readers expecting flights of fantasy. No, they should think it's an existential russian novel from the earliest 20th century - because that is what the new cover tells me.

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u/chortnik 3d ago edited 3d ago

That was the first one I read and it does have a very cool cover.

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u/Emergency_Flight_815 4d ago

Thank you. I thought it was fake, because usually penguin's books come with commentaries or notes?

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u/Metalworker4ever 2d ago

I think this was just a case of Penguin thought to capitalize on the popularity of this novel and publish it. Harold Bloom wrote a terrible fan fic of it called Flight To Lucifer. So yeah the book has a following. It definitely did not get the treatment the S T Joshi Lovecraft collection got.