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Re: Vincent Parke edition (1911) of _Journey_

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott~at~kreative.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:09:37 -0500
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

As has been mentioned here only books before 1923 are free of copyright.
Gutenberg insists on using public domain texts, or donated texts for their
internet use.

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> From: Roger Torstenson <rtorstenson~at~earthlink.net>
> To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: Vincent Parke edition (1911) of _Journey_
> Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 4:56 PM
>
>
> Why can't the Gutenberg crowd use Bradley's version (c1956) or Bill
> Butcher's? These copies are readily available and
> actually use the proper names. The illustrations are also readily
available
> through the books published by Avenel or Crown
> in the early 1980s -- though these versions used the Hardwigg text the
> illustrations were the originals and were quite sharp.
>
> Roger Torstenson
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Arthur B. Evans <aevans2~at~mail.tds.net>
> To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 3:19 PM
> Subject: Vincent Parke edition (1911) of _Journey_
>
>
> > 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 Mon 14 Feb 2000 - 22:21:02 IST

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