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It looks like the Gutenberg Project's [0] English copy is the Arthur Machen translation from Jean Laforgue's hatchet job.

Still, it seems a wee bit ludicrous to be paying money for a work created over 300 years ago. Even the translations are still only derived works.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2981




The Gutenberg version is abridged, and the translation is also much worse than Trask. I do not consider $20 too much for a 800 page 2-volume book, very well typeset, with plenty of notes, and huge scholarly work put in it to make it accessible to the modern reader.




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