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Re: A Plunge into space

From: Jean-Michel Margot <jmmargot~at~mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:11:16 -0400
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At 07:47 AM 9/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Can anyone identify A Plunge into Space, foreword by Robert Cromie? Date,
>publisher, usual Verne title etc? A Fredonia Book.
>nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu Friar Wolcott, Gutenberg Abbey, Sherwood Forrest

Norm,

A Plunge into Space is a novel by Robert Cromie. It was published (second
edition, I don't know about the first) in 1891 by Frederick Warne and Co.
in London and New York. It has 240 pages. On page 3 is a preface by Cromie
To Jules Verne. The surprise begins when you open page 5: there is another
preface, in English, signed Jules Verne: To my English Readers. It's known
that JV didn't know English. So, is it a translation or a hoax? We have no
document or fact proving that JV was asked to preface this Cromie novel.

A fac-simile edition was published in 1976 by Hyperion in Westport
(Connecticut).

If you need more information, I can scan the cover, the title pages, etc.


Jean-Michel Margot
Received on Sun 21 Sep 2003 - 21:14:03 IDT

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