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<p>At a time when Verne is making a comeback in the US as a mainstream literary figure, Wesleyan is pleased to publish a new translation of one of his best-known novels, The Mysterious Island. Although several editions under the same title are in print, most reproduce a bowdlerized nineteenth-century translation which changes the names of the characters, omits several important scenes, and ideologically censors Verne's original text. </p><p>The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has secretly been helping the settlers. A marvelous adventure story, The Mysterious Island is also notable for its modern retelling of the utopian deserted-island myth, with repeated echoes of Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar William Butcher, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.</p><p>**</p>From Publishers Weekly<p>The second title in Wesleyan's new Early Classics of Science Fiction series is Sidney Kravitz's translation (14 years in the making) of Jules Verne's castaway epic, The Mysterious Island. Like the new Modern Library edition (noted in Forecasts, Dec. 24), it boasts black-and-white illustrations and is unexpurgated; unlike it, this volume contains a Verne chronology and brief biography, endnotes, appendixes and information about previous translations. </p><p>Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.</p>From Library Journal<p>There has been a great resurgence of interest in Verne the last few years and especially in this title, which also was reissued recently by the Modern Library (Classic Returns, LJ 12/01). This Wesleyan edition offers the complete text apparently the version that has been available for ages was severely abridged in a new translation along with a scholarly introduction and 75 illustrations. <br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. </p></br>
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| Author: | Jules Verne & Sidney Kravitz (trans) |
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| Publication Year: | 2018 |
| Language: | other |
| File Size: | 18.1905 |
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| Price: | FREE |
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