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A version of a written text, more often than not a collection of previously released material, that contains notes from the author ([[Word of Dante|or someone else with insight into the work]]) in footnotes or sidebars.
This is very common with textbook editions of texts using foreign languages or archaic forms of English, usually to explain [[Values Dissonance|idioms that would never make sense]] [[Small Reference Pools|to us modern, English-speaking folk]]. For instance, pretty much anything [[Shakespeare]] wrote has a few annotated editions. ''[[
Also common with certain classic works of [[Literature]], especially those with a reputation for being "dense." ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' and ''[[Ulysses]]'' by [[James Joyce]] can be nearly impenetrable without annotation.
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It can also serve as a way to explain creative decisions if the creator is A) still alive and B) the one doing the annotations. This variant is very common in collections of comics.
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== [[Comic Strip]] Collections ==
* ''[[Bloom County]]: The Complete Library'' has annotations to explain then-relevant pop-culture references and explain who the political figures being caricatured are. Breathed himself pops up from time to time to explain character origins or thought processes, but mostly just to tell us which strips he thinks are his [[Funny Moments|crowning moments of funny]] and which are [[Old Shame
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'''s tenth anniversary best-of book has notes from Watterson, many of which go into more detail on his assorted [[Author Tract
* ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'''s treasury collections contain annotations from Pastis which try to elaborate on where ideas came from and detail reactions to the more controversial strips. And tell us which things he found impossible to draw.
* A few of the ''[[Dilbert]]'' collections (usually the specialized ones) also have text commentary.
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== Literature Reprints ==
* ''The Annotated Alice'', an omnibus edition of ''[[
* ''The Annotated Christmas Carol'' includes the original text of 1843 and Dickens' 1867 Public Reading Text, which had its world premiere in America and hadn't been reprinted in nearly a century. The notes include explanatory descriptions of foods, customs, legal terms, socio-economic references and so on.
* The second printing of ''[[America
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** And depending on the translation and the publisher, [[Translation
* Around 1970 the Classic Publishing Corporation put out a series of classical books with annotations, such as ''Captains Courageous'' and ''Around The World in Eighty Days''. The annotations explained the meaning of words modern readers might not understand.
* Most good editions of ''[[
* Leonard Wolf's ''The Annotated Dracula'' (1975) explained a great deal of background information about the work that most readers wouldn't know about.
* Almost all editions of [[Shakespeare]]'s plays are annotated in some fashion.
** [[Ian McKellen|Ian McKellan]] published an Annotated edition of his screenplay for the 1995 film adaptation of ''[[Richard III]]'', and it's an invaluable look at the process of adapting Shakesepeare to the screen. It's also available for free reading on his [http://www.mckellen.com/cinema/richard/screenplay/index.htm website].
* ''The Annotated [[Sherlock Holmes]]'' is a two volume onmibus of all of [[
* ''[[Two Gentlemen of Lebowski]]'''s first printing was an annotated edition, to keep up the pretense of it being an [[In the Style Of|authentic reprint of a Shakespeare play]]. (To be fair, the author did such a good job keeping the linguistics authentic that a fair amount of the annotations are necessary to follow the piece.)
* The classic long-form poem ''[[
== Webcomic Collections ==
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' has the [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000401c on-site commentary], which currently goes up to March
* The printed collections of ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' have text commentary.
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' is a special case, in that it's available in a ''separate'' annotated edition, which came after the "vanilla" release was completed.
* ''[[
* [[In
* David Willis adorns every page of his ''[[Shortpacked]]'' collections with annotations, and scatters them sporadically about the [[Walkyverse]] collections.
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