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

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

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

In article <veggl8$qc7$1@panix2.panix.com>,
  jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, volume 1) by
Jules Verne
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Professor Pierre Aronnax sets out to classify what he hopes is a
novel species of narwhal, only to find himself on board a
submarine captained by a self-exiled genius.
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/like-the-ocean

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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,

 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>
 

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]
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".
Poking around a little, it seems this is a fine translation, but they cleaned it up and improved it in 1985.
I'll toss this in the short stack and read it some time.
Tony
[1] I did read The Mysterious Island in the last 1-2 years.