To help put all this in context, a member at the Mobileread forum read these books and commented on them: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34

To help put all this in context, a member at the Mobileread forum read these books and commented on them: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=340548 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=340548 (annoyingly, my local libraries only had a few, and I still resent that when I was interested in French in high school that there weren't any original texts available to me) For a discussion of the difficulties of reading this in translation see: https://www.usni.org/press/books/20000-leagues-under-sea https://www.usni.org/press/books/20000-leagues-under-sea --- it would be great if all of these novels could be so treated/updated.