Re: (Tears) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

On 10/15/24 9:17 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 14/10/2024 09.03, Tony Nance wrote:

On 10/13/24 5:03 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 13/10/2024 12.15, Robert Woodward wrote:

 

My copy of this is an early 1960s Scholastic Book Library edition
without translator credit or credit for the one interior illustration.
The ISFDB doesn't acknowledge the Scholastic Book edition I have,

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I can't believe that there were that many early 1960s SBS editions. The ISFDB
has mine:
<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?295370>

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Hm. I had read this as a kid, and I have no idea which version I read. Many many years ago, having seen discussions here about poor translations, I picked up a more recent copy, but I haven't read it yet.[1]
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My copy is a Bantam Classic 1981 printing of a 1962 copyrighted version translated by Anthony Bonner, with an Introduction by Ray Bradbury. The Bradbury intro is 12 pages long, titled "The Ardent Blasphemers".
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Poking around a little, it seems this is a fine translation, but they cleaned it up and improved it in 1985.

 I have the Bantam Pathfinder edition:
<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?295423>
 I pulled it off of the shelf to find out what translation it is, but its
contents start with page 23, so that was less than helpful. I would think
it likely that Bantam might have re-used the translation. Any way to find
out for sure? Where did your research take you?
 

Seems very likely to be the same translation I have, especially since the date listed under the Contents line on the isfdb page you linked to says "1962".
This page   http://www.najvs.org/works/V006_VL.shtml
seems to have info on many translations, and was the source of my "1985" improvement. However, it appears I misread that - 1985 was not the improvement, it was what a 2003 post was referring to. So the improved Bantam translation may well have been 2003.
Tony