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Reading Robur the Conqueror was quite a trip when I first picked it up from Project Gutenberg. It made me suspect that the versions of the more well-known nove
by thrower123 7y ago
Reading Robur the Conqueror was quite a trip when I first picked it up from Project Gutenberg.
It made me suspect that the versions of the more well-known novels like 20,000 Leagues, Earth to the Moon, Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth that I'd read from the shelves of my school library had been considerably bowdlerized.
- bzbarsky 7y agoThe initial English translations of Verne _were_ considerably bowdlerized, sometimes with large chunks cut out or summarized in the interests of making them more "kids books" than adult ones. There are some modern translations that might be better on this front. Edit: Mentioned elsewhere in this thread: <https://19thlevel.blogspot.com/2012/08/jules-verne-translations-that-dont-stink.html> https://19thlevel.blogspot.com/2012/08/jules-verne-translati..., which I have now bookmarked!
- lordfrikk 7y agoYour link has a ">" at the end which makes it not work.
- bzbarsky 7y agoUgh, I keep forgetting that HN's URL delimiter handling is completely broken.... Unfortunately I can't edit my comment at this point, but the link should have been https://19thlevel.blogspot.com/2012/08/jules-verne-translations-that-dont-stink.html https://19thlevel.blogspot.com/2012/08/jules-verne-translati...