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Vincent Parke edition (1911) of _Journey_

From: Arthur B. Evans <aevans2~at~mail.tds.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:19:12 -0500
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Dear friends,

I have compared the 1911 Vincent Parke (ed. Charles F. Horne) version of
Verne's _Journey to the Center of the Earth_ with the "Von Hardwigg" version
first published by Griffith & Farran in 1871.

Guess what? The Parke version is a severely abridged and altered "Von
Harwigg"!

The very first page will identify each:
Parke: "My uncle was a German, though I am English, he having married by
mother's sister."
Griffith & Farran: "My uncle was a German, having married my mother's
sister, an Englishwoman."

The Parke version deletes huge chunks of text from the original Griffith &
Farran translation: the leper colony in Iceland, the explanation of how
coal is formed, about half of Axel/Harry's "prehistoric dream," and many
other scientific/historical passages.

Normally, I would say that less=better for this particular translation. But
it seems that this reprint of _Journey_ happens to be the one that Project
Gutenberg has decided to scan for posterity.

And that is unfortunate indeed....

Art
Received on Sat 12 Feb 2000 - 23:18:28 IST

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