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The Jules Verne Project

The aim here is to facilitate the online presence of all of Verne's 65 Voyages Extraordinaires in french and in translation by the year 2005, the centenary of his death, and also to create an archive of high quality illustrations from the original Hetzel publications.

Some Comments on Verne's Publishers and Translators. Verne's french publications were by the firm of Julius Hetzel and later Hachette, who took over the Hetzel corpus. In England the principal publisher was Sampson and Low, while in the U.S. Scribners republished the S+L editions for the U.S. market. In England there were other publishers (Routledge, Ward-Lock, and Hutchinson) who published new translations of a few of Verne's books. In the U.S., due to the lack of copyright protection through most of the 19th century, dozens of publishers either re-translated or printed pirated editions of Verne: Munro, Saalfield, Hurst, Donohue, Osgood, Allison, Lippincott, Shepard, Cassell, Porter & Coates,and Worthington to name a few. Thus in addition to the hundred or so french texts there may be several hundred english versions in translation. Fortunately the Jules Verne Encyclopedia (Taves & Michaluk, 1996) lists almost all the english language translations up to 1995. As of this date (October, 2003) there are 17 english texts on Project Gutenberg (TM), so there is quite a way to go.

The Voyages Extraordinaires

This is a handy HTML table which can be printed out on two pages which gives the titles and dates of all of the VE and the standard english and french titles as listed in the Jules Verne Encyclopedia. The texts are identified with the T&M Vxxx number.

Guidance to the site English language texts:

Editors, redactors, correctors, fudgers:
Anon -- Anonymous Volunteer
CT -- Carlo Traverso
DP -- Distributed Proofreaders
JB -- Judith Boss
JW -- John Walker
NW -- Norman Wolcott
RS -- Rich Schroppel
 
Early Publishers
Munro --
Osgood --
Sampson and Low -- Authorized publisher in the UK. Ceased publication in mid 1920's.
Scribners Armstrong; Charles Scribners & Sons -- Authorized publisher in the US
George Routledge -- Unauthorized publisher in UK
Ward, Lock, and Tyler--Unauthorized publisher in the UK
Goubaud & Son -- Unauthorized publisher in the UK
Hutchinson -- Unauthorized publisher in the UK circa 1890
 
Later Reprint Publishers
Omnibus --
Parke --
Castle Books --
Dover Publications -- Space Novels (1960) V016; Moon Novels (1962) V003, V007
Aeonian Press --
Gregg Press -- An Antarctic Mystery (1975) V046
Bison Books -- The Hunt for the Golden Meteor (2002) V060
Fredonia (NL) --
Indy Publisihing (POD) --
Online collections
Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia, UVAETC -- 5 HTML texts, all on PG
Jules Verne Virtual Library" -- Texts collected from many sources, many converted to illustrated HTML

Translation Stats A table which gives the current status of the translation effort.

Translation Reference Table

T&V Number

Book Title

Version

Other Editions

V001 Five Weeks in a Balloon. 1863

Five Weeks in a Balloon; or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen. Sherwood HTML

"William Lackland" translation. Appleton, 1869 Osgood Edition, 1874 93,500 words

PG#3526-5wiab.txt Gutenberg ASCII text Osgood with corrections (JB)

V002 Journey to the Center of the Earth. 1864

A Journey into the Interior of the Earth Sherwood HTML

Translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson. Ward Lock, 1877. 74,269 words

PG#3748-8jrny10.txt Gutenberg ISO Text (NW)

V003 From the Earth to the Moon. 1865

From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around It

Translated by Lewis Page Mercier and Eleanor E. King. Sampson and Low, Scribners Armstrong, 1873. 40,469 words. PG#0083-moon10.txt Gutenberg ASCII Text w. italics and changes; origin unknown (RS, Anon)
V004-II Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras. 1866

The Field of Ice Sherwood HTML

Anonymous translation published by George Routledge and Sons, 1875. 46,848 words. PG#9618-8fice10h.htm Gutenberg UTF HTML (NW, DP)
       
V006 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. 1870 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Translated by Lewis Page Mercier and Eleanor E. King. Sampson and Low, Scribners Armstrong, 1872. 103,054 words. UVA ETC from the Jules Verne Omnibus with corrections (JB)
PG-0164-2000010.txt
Gutenberg ASCII text (JB)
V007 Around the Moon. 1870

From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around It

Translated by Lewis Page Mercier and Eleanor E. King. Sampson and Low, Scribners Armstrong, 1873. 50,203 words. PG#0083-moon10.txt Gutenberg ASCII Text w. italics and changes; origin unknown (RS, Anon)
V008-II A Floating City and the Blockade Runners. 1871 The Blockade Runners Translated by “N. D’Anvers”, pseudonymn for Mrs. Arthur Bell (d. 1933). Sampson and Low (UK) and Scribners (US), 1874. 18,450 words. 8992-8blok10h.htm Gutenberg HTML (NW,JB)
UVA ETC from Jules Verne Omnibus (JB)
       
V010 The Fur Country 1873

The Fur Country Sherwood HTML

Translated by “N. D’Anvers”, pseudonymn for Mrs. Arthur Bell (d. 1933). Osgood, 1874. 126,809 words.  
V011 Around the World in 80 Days 1873 Tour of the World in 80 Days; later Around the World in 80 Days George M. Towle, translator. Osgood, 1874. 65,078 words.  
       
V013 The Mysterious Island 1874

The Mysterious Island Sherwood HTML

Translated by Stephen W. White, Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, 1876, 166,102 words.  
V014 The Chancellor and Martin Paz 1875      
V015 Michael Strogoff and A Drama in Mexico 1876      
V016 Hector Servadac 1877      
V017 The Black Indies 1877      
V018 A Fifteen Year Old Captain 1878 Dick Sands, the Boy Captain Translated by Ellen E. Frewer, Sampson & Low, 1878.   
V018 A Fifteen Year Old Captain 1878 Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen Anonymous translation, George Munro, 1878.  
       
V034 A Two Year Holiday 1887 Adrift in the Pacific Anonymous translation, Sampson&Low   
V035 Topsy Turvy 1889 The Purchase of the North Pole Anonymous translation, Sampson&Low 1890  
V035 Topsy Turvy 1889 Topsy Turvy Anonymous translation, J.S. Ogilvie, NY 1890  
V039 The Caastle in the Carpathians 1892 The Castle in the Carpathians    
V040 Claudius Bombarnac 1892 A Special Correspondent    
V043 Propellor Island 1895 The Floating Island    
V044 Facing the Flag 1896 Facing the Flag    
V046 The Sphinx of Ice 1897 An Antarctic Mystery Sherwood HTML    
V054 Master of the World 1904 Master of the World Sherwood HTML Anonymous translation. Parke, 1911, The Works of Jules Verne Virginia Tech Course, Parke, 1911