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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9781560259046
ISBN: 1560259043
Label: Da Capo Press
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2006-04
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Studio: Da Capo Press
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Highly readable narrative of a writing phenomenon. The world's most translated best-selling writer.
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As stated above it seemed a very slow and arduous read compared to others of the same caliber.
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William Butcher is probably the world's foremost scholarly authority on the life and literature of the French writer Jules Verne. Having written numerous articles and monographs on the life and literary output of the prodigious and often under-estimated and misunderstood French novelist, over many years, and having retranslated some of the best-known Verne novels such as 'Around the world in eighty days' in the last ten years or so, few are more qualified than Butcher to produce this detailed insight ... Read More
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"One of the best storytellers that ever lived" is how Jules Verne is described by Arthur C. Clarke, no mean storyteller himself. He's right, although that will surprise anyone who knows Verne only by way of the rotten translations that have flooded the American and British markets in the past.
Mercifully, the situation is changing. Clarke's statement is a truism to readers who know any of the fine recent English renderings, e.g. those by William Butcher, Stanley Kravitz, Walter James Miller, ... Read More
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