Ukridge (variorum edition, PDF)
Ukridge (UK) / He Rather Enjoyed It (US) is the second story collection and the seventh book overall for which I have completed a variorum edition. Once more, it was greatly facilitated by previous work done by the Madame Eulalie team on the magazine versions of these stories.
It is well known that their texts are broadly divided into two groups: the Cosmopolitan versions on one hand, and the Strand versions on the other which were used as the base for all book editions. This is reflected in the apparatus, where the Cs will be seen to predominate. Still, the changes introduced in both first editions and in later British editions have some interest.
I have also formatted into a publishable form the long tables of textual differences that I always compile before putting together a variorum edition. For the moment they are available in the Drafts & WIP page linked on the right; with time I hope to have a separate page with a proper introduction. They are sometimes incomplete, and the information is essentially the same as that provided by the variorums, but they offer an overview of the relationships between the texts that is not as evident in the continuous text.
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