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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (Tears) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:17:28 -0500
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On 14/10/2024 09.03, Tony Nance wrote:
> On 10/13/24 5:03 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
>> On 13/10/2024 12.15, Robert Woodward wrote:

>>> My copy of this is an early 1960s Scholastic Book Library edition
>>> without translator credit or credit for the one interior illustration.
>>> The ISFDB doesn't acknowledge the Scholastic Book edition I have,
>>
>> I can't believe that there were that many early 1960s SBS editions. The ISFDB
>> has mine:
>> <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?295370>
> 
> Hm. I had read this as a kid, and I have no idea which version I read. Many many years ago, having seen discussions here about poor translations, I picked up a more recent copy, but I haven't read it yet.[1]
> 
> My copy is a Bantam Classic 1981 printing of a 1962 copyrighted version translated by Anthony Bonner, with an Introduction by Ray Bradbury. The Bradbury intro is 12 pages long, titled "The Ardent Blasphemers".
> 
> Poking around a little, it seems this is a fine translation, but they cleaned it up and improved it in 1985.

I have the Bantam Pathfinder edition:
<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?295423>

I pulled it off of the shelf to find out what translation it is, but its
contents start with page 23, so that was less than helpful. I would think
it likely that Bantam might have re-used the translation. Any way to find
out for sure? Where did your research take you?

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Michael F. Stemper
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