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Re: Lighthouse at the End of the World

From: Valeria Smolianinova <valerysmol~at~mail.ru>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:15:58 +0300
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Correctly, Mark! It is a thriller! I read this novel many years ago and, maybe, I remember not all, but it seems to me, Verne, really, had written no such novel.

By the way, who remembers: in this novel there was the monkey (Mario)?

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From: Mark Eckell <mark_eckell~at~hotmail.com>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:17:29 +0000
Subject: Re: Lighthouse at the End of the World

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> Hi Sid
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> If it's the one Kirk Douglas was in, it was pretty grim and gruesome and not very entertaining.
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> From: Skravitz~at~aol.com
> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:53:57 -0500
> Subject: Lighthouse at the End of the World
> To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il
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> The publication of Bill Butcher's English
> translation of "The Lighthouse at the End of the World" reminds me of an
> incident that occurred some 50 years ago. At the time the only JV
> novels I knew about were the ones in the New York City public
> libraries. A movie was playing called "The Lighthouse at the End of the
> World" and the newspaper advertisements said that the movie was based on a novel
> Verne had written. Considering myself something of a JV expert I wrote to
> some New York City fraud investigating office bitterly complaining the Verne had
> written no such novel.
> Sid Kravitz
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