Comments on: Easy Kindle book downloads without a computer: The grubby details for public domain fans

By: Garson O'Toole

Garson O'Toole — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:59 +0000

Oxford University Press publishes "The Extraordinary Journeys: Journey to the Centre of the Earth" by Jules Verne. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by William Butcher. I have not read this, but I have seen praise for the translation. Here is an Amazon link and an Oxford University Press link. (Warning: The Amazon page seems to correspond to the correct edition, but the links from the page lead to other versions. The audible link leads to another translation. The Kindle version might be wrong also. Links change and this note was written November 21, 2009.)

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:25:26 +0000

You’re so, so right, Garson. I’ve just bought a Verne bio in paper (not available in E), and that’s one of the big points made—that translations are terrible. On top of that, many a critic passing judgment on Verne has not read him in French.

Any recs as to a good translation of Journey?

Thanks,
David

By: Garson O'Toole

Garson O'Toole — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:52:27 +0000

Thanks for this helpful article. David Rothman said, "To my surprise, I couldn’t dig up one for A Journey to the Center of the Earth, the Jules Verne classic." While searching for an ebook version of a work by Jules Verne one should be aware that some of the public-domain translations of Verne from French into English are terrible. Arthur B. Evans discusses this problem in an article in Science Fiction Studies.