Where to shelve annotated works of fiction?

I've been torn on where to shelve annotated works of fiction lately. Let's say, for example, the annotated version of Lolita (a book many of you probably have). Would it be shelved in fiction, in my Nabokov section, or in nonfiction, along with literary criticism and the like? I guess the findamental question is, would you consider such a book fiction or nonfiction?

You can compare the possible shelvings of Lolita https://www.librarything.com/work/913/workdetails and the Annotated Lolita https://www.librarything.com/work/5277339/workdetails

(Not that I can imagine having such a thing.)

>1 hippreacherone: If it contains the fiction work, I usually shelve it with the fiction - even the Nortons and similar heavy on the critical material books and annotated ones. It really depends on how your library is structured. If I already have another copy of the novel and I got this one only for the annotations, I may leave it with the non-fiction, especially if I have more books about the same book (although it depends on the author in my library - sometimes non-fiction for a specific play/novel is shelved next to it and not in the non-fiction bookcases).

>3 AnnieMod: Thanks for your imput. It does seem very intuitive to shelve it with the rest of Nabokov, alongside the original book, but it also seems like the general consensus is that such a book is nonfiction. There's a similar problem with authors who write fiction, and go on to have collections of essays published. It's vaguely irksome to have to seperate them, but I do it anyway, so I guess Lolita will have to go with the nonfiction.

I shelve annotated volumes, author biographies, lit crit, with the author's fiction works.

>4 hippreacherone: It is your library. Where would you naturally look for it? That's the only thing that really matters in a personal library.

Now... if you are shelving for the public, that's somewhat different of course.

I’ve put my Annotated Alice with my fiction, and it’s honestly never occurred to me to put it anywhere else.

OTOH, at some point I apparently decided that an annotated Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus (a collection of medieval fables) is not fiction.

As a post facto rationalization I could offer that Alice is something I might read out of literary interest, but the latter only out of historical.

In most formal subject call number systems, nonfiction about a fiction title would be shelved with the fiction title (as would author biographies, etc.) because they don't have a separate fiction section - this is true in both unmodified Dewey and unmodified LoC.

But most people don't shelve that way, it's true.

My annotated editions are mostly along the lines of The Annotated Alice and The Annotated Sherlock Holmes so they shelve with 'too tall to fit with standard hardcovers' and I've never really had to answer the question.

(I actually have a 'neither fiction nor nonfiction' collection as well, for stuff I absolutely couldn't make up my mind. It's probably where the annotated editions would go if I had space to shelve not by size.)

>7 AndreasJ: I think that Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus is considered book history by the Swedish library system. I certainly have it under A in my library.

>9 anglemark:

I’ve never paid any attention to the Swedish library system when shelving my own books, but this might be a case where fools didn’t differ.