Editorial note — Collected Sidenotes
Reading edition
The text is intended to replicate the layout of the printed book as closely as possible.
Headnotes, printed at the top of each page, have been moved to the most appropriate sentence break. Some shorter headnote pairs may be merged into one. Sidenotes giving plot summary are placed close to their original location.
The Notes were originally printed as a short (12 pages) section before the Glossarial Index. For this e-text they have been distributed among their respective texts. Links to the Notes are intended to be visible but not distracting.
Text-Critical Notes such as variant readings have been handled differently than in the printed book, where they appeared either as footnotes (numbered) or sidenotes (sometimes but not always marked). Here, the word they refer to is underlined if necessary, and the note itself will generally have this form:
leak] the t of the MS. has a k over it.
Where a single word has both an endnote and a marginal note, the link to the endnote is shown.
A. An unusual typographical error, shown with beginnings of adjoining lines:
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