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Re: James D Keeline

From: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:23:39 -0500 (EST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
cc: dasgupta~at~nde.vsnl.net.in, bromeo~at~bellsouth.net

On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, swati dasgupta wrote:

> James D Keeline helped Andrew Romeo by listing a few books on Jules
> Verne which should be read. I have also heard of, but never seen, two
> other books: The Jules Verne Encyclopedia and the Jules Verne
> companion. Could anyone tell me how good these books are? They would
> probably not be necessary for an eighth grade student, but what about
> for an adult who is really interested in Verne?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Swati Dasgupta
> dasgupta~at~nde.vsnl.net.in
> B 32 Gulmohar Park
> New Delhi 110049
> India

*The Jules Verne Companion* by Peter Haining is primarily a pictorial
volume with a few articles and Verne writings from various sources. It
had very limited publication in both US and UK, and is hard to find,
although not pricey.

At the risk of boring long-time list subscribers .... *The Jules Verne
Encyclopedia* is designed not only for devotees but also for the library
audience, with the various information on Verne's interviews, Verne in
Amiens, Verne in translation, Verne in films, etc. It might even be less
overwhelming to a juvenile than a full-length adult biography, such as the
one by Peter Costello, although there are a number of various juvenile
bios of JV, such as those by Russell Freedman, Catherine Peare, Peggy
Teeters, etc., easily accessible to an 8th grader. (However, our young
friend probably has enough information from James Keeline's list of
websites.)

For the benefit of our colleague in India, a further description of *The
Jules Verne Encyclopedia* is below.

Brian Taves
Email: btav~at~loc.gov


Disclaimer--All opinions expressed are my own.





     The Jules Verne Encyclopedia
     
     Brian Taves & Stephen Michaluk, Jr.
     
     with Edward Baxter, Ray Cartier, Evelyn
     Copeland, Olivier Dumas and James Iraldi
     
     Foreword by Andre Laurie
     
     293 pp. 8 1/2" X 11" photos 1996 ISBN 0-8108-2961-4 $54.50
     
     From *Around the World in 80 Days* to *20,000 Leagues Under
     the Sea*, millions of readers around the world have enjoyed
     the works of Jules Verne for over 120 years, and today he is
     recognized as one of the most important literary figures of
     all time. With the discovery of his long-lost manuscripts
     such as *Paris in the Twentieth Century*, Verne continues to
     amaze modern audiences with his astounding predictions of
     the future.
     
     *The Jules Verne Encyclopedia* utilizes a variety of approaches
     to reveal the author as a cultural phenomenon whose influence
     has radiated throughout science and the arts. The authors
     outline Verne's life in a critical overview, and in a
     compilation of autobiographical interviews given to journalists
     during his lifetime and reprinted here for the first time.
     Also included is Verne's controversial novelette, "The Humbug,"
     a satire of American mores never before published in The
     United States. A vast and meticulous bibliography compiles
     information from the collections of individuals, institutions,
     and archives, along with trade publications and copyright
     records, tracing the thousands of different editions,
     retitlings, translations, and abridgments of each of Verne's
     over sixty books and numerous short stories, plays, articles,
     and poems.
     
     Verne is an equally important presence outside of literature,
     achieving recognition in hundreds of postage stamps and in
     Hollywood adaptations of his stories. Each of these topics is
     covered in a detailed chapter. Together, these multiple facets
     make *The Jules Verne Encyclopedia* a research landmark that will
     fulfill the varying needs for a general introduction to Verne,
     suitable for public libraries, as well as for the specialized
     information required by scholars, universities, collectors,
     philatelists, and cinephiles.
     
      "The standard reference on this author for all scholars,
     collectors, and librarians . . . Informative and authoritative,
     The Jules Verne Encyclopedia is essential reading for all
     aficionados of Jules Verne and for all who wish an inside
     glimpse into how the disparate worlds of science, literature,
     and media were first successfully combined in Western culture."
     
                                        --- Science Fiction Studies
     
     
     Brian Taves (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is
     a specialist in film history with the Library of Congress,
     and author of *The Romance of Adventure: The Genre of
     Historical Adventure Movies*. Taves is a regular contributor
     to the scholarly Parisian quarterly, *Bulletin de la Societe
     Jules Verne*, and in 1993 arranged the first English-language
     translation and publication of Verne's fairy tale, *Adventures
     of the Rat Family*, published by Oxford University Press.
     
     Stephen Michaluk, Jr. (B.A., National-Louis University)
     is a Navy Program Analyst at the Pentagon. He is a
     Verne collector extraordinaire with an extensive
     bibliographic background and one of the most notable
     and comprehensive personal collections of Verne in the
     United States.
     
     For further information or to place an order contact Scarecrow
     Press at the numbers listed below.
     
     SCARECROW PRESS
     4720 Boston Way
     Lanham, MD 20706
     
     1-800-462-6420 301-459-3366 Fax 301-459-2118
Received on Mon 30 Mar 1998 - 18:11:38 IDT

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