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Re: typo : Hatteras Oxford Butcher 05 edition

From: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~ufl.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:20:35 -0500
CC: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~ufl.edu>
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On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:51 PM, wbutcher wrote:

> Thanks for the very kind words (and for spotting the typo). Hatteras
> is one
> of the all-time greats, which is why I chose to do an edition and
> translation. I still regret not incorporating the duel episode etc
> into the
> text, since I do think the earlier, manuscript version is superior.
> This
> book has not sold well, which will limit my choice if I want to do
> another
> OUP volume.

Well, I've tried to do *my* best to promote Bill's excellent
translation, forcing several classes of undergraduate students to read
it in the last two years :-)

Not that they needed much forcing: with _Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Seas_, _Hatteras_ is uniformly one of the Verne texts that my
students rank at the top of their preferences. And a good bit of that
ranking is owed to the qualities of Bill's translations and
annotations of both novels for OUP.

TH

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Terry Harpold
Associate Professor
Dept. of English, University of Florida
<http://www.english.ufl.edu/~tharpold>

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