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Re: Verne, Twain, and "Verne" as character

From: Gerald Pavano <pavano~at~snet.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:04:52 -0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

On 6/27/01 17:55, "Brian Taves" <btav~at~loc.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Walter J Miller wrote:
>
>> All Vernians must see July/August issue of Atlantic mag. 126 year old
>> Twain story published for lst time. Character driven by hatred of Verne
>> to kill JV and one other person. Find out why Twain hated
>> Verne---afterword tells all. Cheers! Walter James Miller
>
> The story was covered on Monday's Newshour, which is where I heard about
> it, and can be heard at
> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/twain/index.html
>
> See also http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/unbound/flashbks/twain.htm
>
> Reading the story last night, which dates from around 1876, it makes clear
> the extent of Verne's celebrity status in the United States as his first
> wave of novels were rapidly translated and proliferated in the American
> marketplace during the 1870s. In this new story, Twain alludes to many of
> Verne's novels published in English up till that time. Twain had wanted
> to write a balloon story himself, but abandoned it because he believed
> that Verne had made it into a cliche, and he writes of Verne with a mix of
> envy and competitive spirit. Of course Twain eventually did write his own
> Verne type novel, *Tom Sawyer Abroad*, which was particularly indebted to
> *Cinq semaines en ballon* and *L'isle mysterieuse* (as I discussed
> previously in *The Jules Verne Encyclopedia*).
> > Brian Taves
> email: <btav~at~loc.gov>

Hello fellow Vernians,
    I know this is now "old news" however we were away for 2 weeks. I dusted
off my early copy of Twain's "Tom Sawyer Abroad" and scanned some of the
illustrations. The story line and drawings are so close to Verne's "Five
Weeks" I would think most Twain fans would be somewhat embarrassed.

http:pages.cthome.net/pavano/twain1.gif
http:pages.cthome.net/pavano/twain2.gif

Regards,
Gerald Pavano

Gerald F. Pavano-Books
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pavano~at~snet.net
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