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Re: Adam Roberts's Comet and Jack Lake's 20,000 Leagues

From: WILLIAM JONES <wbj514~at~sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:37:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Oops! Here's that Jack Lake Classics Illustrated 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea link: http://www.jacklakeproductions.com/File61.asp?id=61
  Sorry for the Internet ineptitude.
   
  WBJ

WILLIAM JONES <wbj514~at~sbcglobal.net> wrote:
    Thanks for the tip on the new Adam Roberts revision of the Victorian-era Off on a Comet English translation. His introduction is first-rate, touching on everything from 19th-century translators' textual liberties to Verne's unfortunate reflexive anti-Semitic tendencies. The typography and design are splendid and easy on the eyes.
   
  Jack Lake Productions of Toronto is reissuing the Classics Illustrated adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea this month -- within the next two weeks, most likely. I wrote an introduction for it in which I discuss (and provide a couple of illos from) the slightly longer April-May 1947 Classics Illustrated newspaper treatment from which the May 1948 comic book evolved. For anyone who may be interested, here is a link to the Jack Lake Classics Illustrated "Coming Soon" page. If an image of the 1955 painted cover is not there, the publisher may have moved it to "Available Titles." A Journey to the Center of the Earth, originally published in May 1957, will be reissued by Jack Lake in June.
   
  Best regards,
   
  William B. Jones Jr.
Received on Mon 14 Apr 2008 - 05:38:07 IDT

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