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

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:03:53 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 16/10/2024 16.13, Tony Nance wrote:

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

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

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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.

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I have the Bantam Pathfinder edition:
<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?295423>
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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?
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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.

Well, then I think that I'll give it a whirl. I've been skittish ever since the discussion
here that gave the impression that the Naval Press translation was the first good English
version. Maybe I misread.

I'm currently heading toward the End of Dumas, and it has long been
apparent to me that learning French and reading French novels in
French might have been a better idea. With the proper aids, of course.
Which in Dumas' case would have been a detailed French history.

But that is not the path I chose. As to Verne, I don't know if I want
to extend my stay in 19th century France. Perhaps after a break ...
apparently CJ Cherryh has written another Alliance novel.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"