The Everlasting Man by Gilbert K. Chesterton Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Everlasting Man
Book Review: Horrible Printing
Summary: 1 Stars
The printing in this book is the smallest I have ever seen - almost unreadable. Also the book has hundreds of spelling mistakes. It seems every word that should start with 'h' starts with 'b'. How can this occur in the age of spell-checkers? Chesterton deserves better. This printing is absolute garbage. The producers of this book should be ashamed of themselves.Book Review: I should have read the reviews first!
Summary: 1 Stars
Having read this book before, I felt no need to read the reviews before purchasing it. BIG MISTAKE! I returned it the day after I received it. The work itself is a masterpiece, but (as others have said) this edition has so many typographical errors and portions of missing text due to poor editing, that it makes it virtually unreadable and incomprehensible. For example, just click on the 'look inside' and notice that the preface is not only incomplete, but ends mid-sentence with a question mark. I finally gave up when I was reading and came across a question mark in the middle of a word. By all means, read the book, but not from this publisher.Book Review: Poorly edited
Summary: 1 Stars
This book has editing errors on every page. A classic and a great read, but not from this publisher.Book Review: Review of this edition only
Summary: 2 Stars
Book appears to be based on a scan of a previous printing. There are many errors making it difficult to read. For example "bad" is substituted for "had" consistently. Sentences break and new paragraphs start without good reason. None of the original copyright info is included, this is a 2008 edition, which leads me to believe that it has expired.Book Review: Skip This Edition! Nice Cover Art
Summary: 1 Stars
This edition of the Chesterton classic, The Everlasting Man, has been so poorly proof-read that it has unintelligible passages, omissions, misspellings--often several on a single page. Chesterton never used the word "modem", but it appears over and over. Punctuation has been reduced to the point that periodic sentences seem to be run-ons; commas and periods pop up is strange places. Is it sabotage? I CAN'T GIVE THIS AS A GIFT, AS I HAD PLANNED!"
Without my old paperback (Image Books), I would find this incomprehensible.