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Re: A wave of books on Verne

From: boutin <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:22:39 +0100
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Look at www.amazon.fr, www.fnac.com, www.alapage.fr or better because
closer from the USA:
   
http://www.gallimardmontreal.com/gallim/site/
recherche.jsp?pParamRapide=weissenberg
or a French book store in the Big Apple.
Enjoy,
Jean-Pierre Boutin

Le jeudi, 9 déc 2004, à 15:56 Europe/Paris, Walter J Miller a écrit :

>
>
> Terry et al, I must have missed something.  How do I get a copy of the
> Weissenberg book?  ASAP?  Walter James Miller----- Original Message
> -----
>
>
>
> From: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu>
>
>
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> Date: Thursday, December 9, 2004 9:25 am
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>
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> Subject: Re: A wave of books on Verne
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> > On Thursday, December 9, 2004, boutin <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
> > writes:
> > >The book by Eric Weissenberg is a must for all JV lovers. It
> > gives
> > >really new insight into JV life, not a simple compilation of
> > pervious
> > >biographies. Numerous illustrations, some of them are absolutely
> > new
> > >(e.g. the photograph of the putative mistress of JV!) and a lot
> > are
> > >rare, i.e. not copies of engravings from the Hetzel editions.
> >
> > Yes, I agree: Weissenberg's _Un Univers fabuleux_ is a must-have.
> >
> > J-M Margot showed an advance copy around at the annual meeting of
> > the North American Jules Verne Society in Washington this past
> > May. The photographs in the book were wonderful -- many of objects
> > that are rarely seen outside of special exhibitions (manuscripts,
> > some of the maps drawn by Verne during composition ! of his novels,
> > beautiful photographs of the cartonnages, etc.) I didn't get a
> > chance to review any of the text, unfortunately -- I'm looking
> > forward to reading it over the holidays :-)
> >
> > TH
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Terry Harpold
> > Assistant Professor
> > Department of English
> > University of Florida
> >
> > tharpold~at~acm.org
> > tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu
> > http://www.english.ufl.edu/~tharpold
> >
> > "Reading in no way obliges you to understand."
> >
> >
Received on Thu 09 Dec 2004 - 18:22:46 IST

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