{"id":253236,"date":"2007-07-25T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/07\/25\/curious-idea\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:39:00","slug":"curious-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/07\/25\/curious-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September Vintage UK is relaunching its Vintage Classics line, and to promote this, ten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com.au\/Default.aspx?Page=General&#38;Section=vintagetwins\">Vintage Twins<\/a> will be made available.<\/p>\n<p>A Vintage Twin&#8212;in case you&#8217;re wondering&#8212;&#8220;consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking combination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Labeled accordingly, there&#8217;s a Vintage Lust Twin featuring <i>Tom Jones<\/i> and <i>The Rachel Papers<\/i>, a Fantasy Twin of <i>Alice in Wonderland<\/i> and <i>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles<\/i>, and a Satire Twin of <i>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/i> and <i>Atomised<\/i> (aka <i>The Elementary Particles<\/i>), to name a few. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting idea, especially since it&#8217;s a &#8220;2 for 1&#8221; deal and the &#8220;literary classic&#8221; is free. Not sure that this will act as a gateway drug hooking readers on the rest of the series, but there is something interesting about pairing books and highlighting the particular aesthetic, or style, or whatnot, linking a classic book and a contemporary one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September Vintage UK is relaunching its Vintage Classics line, and to promote this, ten Vintage Twins will be made available. A Vintage Twin&#8212;in case you&#8217;re wondering&#8212;&#8220;consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[806,2076],"class_list":["post-253236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-business-of-books","tag-vintage-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364156,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253236\/revisions\/364156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}