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Re: Children of Capt Grant

From: remi schulz <remi.schulz~at~club-internet.fr>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:30:45 +0200
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It's a bit surprising for a French to learn Children of Capt Grant is not so known in the world as it's one of Verne's best known in France.
Maybe it's a bit long at times, and this might be a consequence of a challenge Verne took with himself, to divide the novel in 3 equal books.
The first book has 26 chapters, the two others 22 each, but the first 4 chapters are a kind of prologue, before the departure of the expedition.
I found the same pattern in the 2 other novels of the trilogy:
First chapter of 20,000 Leagues... looks like a real prologue, then starts the real narrative in two books of 23 ch each.
The first 2 chapters of Mysterious Island tell the escape from Richmond, then the adventures in the island are divided in 3 books of 20 ch each.

The clever idea of the message in the bottle with missing letters was used many times after Verne, peculiarly in a crime novel titled 37e parallèle (37th parallel), by Colette Lovinger-Richard (2003).
Received on Mon 29 Aug 2011 - 15:31:01 IDT

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