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Re: best English translation: 5 Weeks Balloon

From: Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:48:32 -0800 (PST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Cyrus,
 
The Wordsworth softcover dual volume a few years back, of 80 Days / 5 Weeks, seems to contain the Chambers trans of the latter.
 
Brian Taves

--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Cyrus <cloudcity~at~lavabit.com> wrote:

From: Cyrus <cloudcity~at~lavabit.com>
Subject: Re: best English translation: 5 Weeks Balloon
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 7:05 AM

Thanks for the info. Will search for Chambers's edition but may have to
settle for Lackland's.
On Nov 23, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Norm Wolcott wrote:

> I don't know if anyone has replied to your request. My personal
opinions
> follow:
>
> Most translations are accepetable except the Sampson Low, Chapman Hall, or
> Routledge ones fortunately not often reprinted.
>
> The original US translation, by "William Lackland", is quite
complete, with
> a few errors, and all of the "interjections" replaced by
"By Jove" etc. and
> is available on Project Gutenberg.
>
> A somewhat better translation again with some changes in Verne's frank
> vocabulary is the Everyman paperback by Arthur Chambers last reprinted in
> 1963, but maybe there are some later repriints. This 1922 translation is
> still in copyright (forever it appears) so you may need to search used
book
> sites.
>
> Also Barnes and Noble has just published a Jules Verne compendium of 7
> public domain novels for about $10 which contains the Lackland translation
> and some of the better editions of the other works (i.e. the Malleson
> Journey into the Interior of the Earth). This is a great improvement over
> the old 1930's "Jules Verne Omnibus" which contains the
worst of everything.
>
> The only illustrated edition I know of is the 1970's by Aeonian.
>
> Hope this helps to answer your question.
>
>
> nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cyrus" <cloudcity~at~lavabit.com>
> To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 5:53 PM
> Subject: best English translation: 5 Weeks Balloon
>
>
>> Dear Forum,
>>
>> Interested to hear any thoughts on the definitive English translation
>> of Five Weeks in A Balloon. Which I look forward to reading.
>>
>> William Lackland?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Cyrus
>>
>
>
>
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