Re: Captain Nemo's Timeline

On 6/16/2025 10:37 AM, Gary McGath wrote:

On 6/16/25 8:41 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 6/16/25 2:21 AM, Jerry Brown wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:22:48 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:
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Disney, however, takes great works and ruins them.  That's my objection.
Whoever decided to tack a happy ending on to Hunchback of Notre Dame deserves
to be thrown in the catacombs.

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20,00 Leagues Under the Sea is a bit of an oddity in that Nemo is much
nastier than in the book, and the ending was changed so that Nemo died
despite surviving until "The Mysterious Island" book-wise. Imagine
that nowadays, where the norm is to leave an opening for sequels.

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Book-wise the time line is a mess.  20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA takes place from 1866 to 1868, after the American Civil War, while THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND starts during the American Civil War in 1865 and goes to 1869.  During that time, Nemo does not seem to be gone from the island for any extended period of time.
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 My recollection is that in the book _20,000 Leagues_, Nemo appears to die at the end, but he's brought back for _Mysterious Island_. It's been a long time since I've read either, though, so I might be wrong.
 

If my half century old memories of the book hold up, the Nautilus is
sucked into the Maelstrom off the coast of Norway, and the protagonists
assume Nemo is dead.
...and yes, he is later shown to have survived.
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