Jules Verne, Author, Sydney Kravitz, Translator, Arthur B. Evans, Editor Wesleyan University Press $40 (728p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6475-7
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,...
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Jules Verne, trans. from the French by Peter Schulman, Univ. of Nebraska, $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8032-4675-1; $15.95 trade paper ISBN 978-0-8032-3484-0
Schulman provides an excellent translation from Verne's 1910 manuscript, reversing the changes Michel Verne made to his father's tale of love and sorcery. The levelheaded Frenchman Henry Vidal visits his brother in the fictional city of Ragz,...
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Jules Verne, read by James Frain. Listening Library, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-307-74793-8
Verne’s classic journey into the ocean follows professor Pierre Aronnax and his two companions as they are captured by Capt. Nemo and find themselves trapped aboard the Nautilus, a high-powered submarine that traverses about the world revealing the...
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Jules Verne, trans. from the French by Sophie Lewis. Hesperus (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $19.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-84391-367-2
Lewis’s delightful translation of Verne’s 1889 satirical farce has modern-day resonance in its critique of white man’s hubris. Impey Barbicane (president of the Baltimore Gun Club, which sent members into space in From the Earth to the Moon and...
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Jules Verne, Author, Stanford Luce, Translator, Arthur B. Evans, Editor Wesleyan University Press $29.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6511-2
The Mighty Orinoco (1898), Jules Verne's novel of scientific adventure along Venezuela's Orinoco River, appears in its first English translation, along with an introduction and notes by Walter James Miller. Translated by Stanford L. Luce and...
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Jules Verne, Author, Arthur B. Evans, Editor, Stanford L. Luce, Translator , trans. from the French by Stanford L. Luce, edited by Arthur B. Evans. Wesleyan Univ. $29.95 (475p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6704-8
This first English translation of Verne's awkward hybrid of travelogue and coded detective story, originally serialized in 1902, centers on Dutch brothers Karl and Pieter Kip. In the novel's first part, which details nautical journeys around
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Jules Verne, Author, Arthur B. Evans, Editor, Stanford L. Luce, Translator Wesleyan University Press $29.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6796-3
Originally and inexpertly translated in 1879, Verne's cautionary tale concerns human failings in the face of both wealth and scientific progress. Instead of valorizing progress like most Verne novels, this one presents contested definitions of the...
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Jules Verne, Author, Jim Dale, Read by , read by Jim Dale. Listening Library $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-20642-8
The sounds of a chugging steam engine and the orchestral movie-score strains that open this program set the stage for Dale's top-drawer performance of this much-loved adventure story. As one could set a clock by eccentric Phileas Fogg's...
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Jules Verne, Author, Edward Baxter, Editor, Edward Baxter, Translator , trans. from the French by Edward Baxter. Univ. of Nebraska $29.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-8032-9635-0
The prolific Verne (1828–1905), renowned in his day and through to ours, left at least 11 unpublished works at his death, each of which, according to the introduction by Olivier Dumas, was significantly rewritten by Verne’s nephew,...
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Jules Verne, Author, Edward Baxter, Translator , trans. by Edward Baxter. Wesleyan Univ. $24.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6465-8
Leading off Wesleyan's Early Classics of Science Fiction series, Verne's 1905 techno-thriller debuts in English, rendered by Baxter with supple decorum and reinforced by editor Arthur B. Evans's thorough scholarly notes, bibliography and
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Jules Verne, Author, William Butcher, Editor, William Butcher, Translator , edited and trans. from the French by William Butcher. Univ. of Nebraska $29.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-8032-6007-8
Fans of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
and Around the World in Eighty Days
may find this work from Verne (1828–1905) austere. In 1859, three sailors arrive on an isolated island to man a new lighthouse at the wreck-prone tippy tip of...
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Jules Verne, Author, Benjamin Ivry, Translator, Olivier Dumas, Introduction by Welcome Rain Publishers $26.95 (187p) ISBN 978-1-56649-179-2
Of the six novels that Jules Verne left unpublished at the time of his death, five were heavily revised and rewritten by his son, Michel. In recent years, two of the original manuscripts have been published as they were left by Verne. Magellania,
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Jules Verne, Author, Richard Howard, Translator Random House (NY) $21 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-44434-3
In 1863, Jules Verne was a young writer with one published novel under his belt and a new multibook contract with a prominent French publisher in hand. The publisher, however, rejected Verne's second manuscript, opting to bring out his Journey to...
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