This is a bit random, but do publishers like Penguin move a lot of classics each year? Middlemarch’s rank in the Amazon USA list would seem to indicate it sells around ten copies a day. Does that seem reasonable? I thought it seemed a bit low, but my opinion is truly random. There are >12 different paperback editions, so that would seem to argue for popularity…
The Iliad has been riding high in new book sale lists over the last few weeks specifically because Emily Wilson’s new translation carried a lot of hype. Kind of cool to see.