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Re: Translations in general

From: James D. Keeline <keeline~at~adnc.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 19:22:57 -0800
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

All of this talk about good and bad translations made me wonder about
the consensus for the Fitzroy editions edited by I.O. Evans and pub-
lished in the 1960s. Granted these are much shorter than the originals
and could not possibly include much of Verne's humor or satire but how
do they fare as plot-driven adventure stories?

Along with early editions, I have collected these books for some time
and have a small web page which provides some information about the
editions though it is somewhat different in approach to Andrew Nash's
page on the topic. His page is:

        http://www.interlog.com/~anash/jvfitz.html
Received on Thu 03 Feb 2000 - 05:22:00 IST

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