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The Oxford University Press World’s Classic edition of Around the World in Eighty Days, translated by William Butcher is considered by scholars to be the best full-text version available in English.

Versions for younger readers include editions from:
Abdo Publishing Company (adapted for Great Illustrated Classics series).
Longman (adapted for Penguin Joint Venture Readers Series).
Oxford University Press (adapted for Domino series).
Puffin Books (full-text but larger font and different translation to that of the Penguin Classic).
Usborne Publishing (adapted for Young Reading Series 2).

Audio versions include editions from:

CSA Word
Naxos Audiobooks
Oxford University Press
Penguin Children’s Audiobooks

A large print version is available from Chivers Press' with 'A large print version of the Oxford World's Classics' edition used in this project had been produced for libraries by W F Howes Ltd.

DVDs include:

1956 – film starring David Niven and Cantinflas
1988 – tv series starring Pierce Brosnan and Peter Ustinov
1989 – animated version
2004 – film starring Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan

Detailed bibliographies of Verne can be found on some of the websites listed below.

Books by him translated into English which are currently in print in the UK include:
Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Oxford University Press).
Five Weeks in a Balloon (Sutton Publishing. Also available with Around the World in Eighty Days from Wordsworth).
From the Earth to the Moons (Sutton Publishing).
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Oxford University Press, among others. Also as an OUP Headwords edition for younger/ emergent readers).
Michael Strogoff (Atheneum/ Scribner Illustrated Classic).
Mysterious Island (Penguin/ Signet, among other paperbacks. Illustrated edition from Simon and Schuster).
Paris in the Twentieth Century (Random House).
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Oxford University Press, among others. Also Evans’ abridged version for children).

Fredonia Books, a publishing company in the USA whose books can be ordered in the UK, has the following 35 Verne titles currently in print:
Adrift in the Pacific: two years holiday
Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth
Barbicane and Company: the purchase of the North Pole
Blockade Runners
Caesar Cascabel
Captain Antifer
Castle of the Carpenthians
Desert of Ice
Dick Sands: a captain at fifteen
Dicks Sands: the dark continent
Doctor Ox
Early Stories
End of Nana Sahib: the steam house
English at the North Pole
Facing the Flag
Family Without a Name: into the abyss
Family Without a Name: leader of the resistance
Field of Ice
Floating City
Floating Island: the pearl of the Pacific
Giant Raft: 800 leagues on the Amazon
Giant Raft: the cryptogram
Keraban the Inflexible: adventures in the Euxine
Measuring a Meridian: the adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa
North Against South: a tale of the American Civil War
On the Track
Plunge into Space
Robur the Conqueror: master of the world
Survivors of the Chancellor
Texar’s Revenge
Tigers and Traitors
Tour of the Moon
Vanished Diamond: star of the south
Winter Amid the Ice
Wreck of the Franklin


Books on Verne include:
Jean-Jules Verne (1976) Jules Verne (translated by Roger Greaves) Macdonald and Jane’s.
Peter Costello (1978) Jules Verne: inventor of science fiction Hodder and Stoughton.
William Butcher (1990) Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Self: space and time in the ‘Voyages extraordinaires’ Macmillan.
Andrew Martin (1990) The Mask of the Prophet: the extraordinary fictions of Jules Verne Clarendon Press.
Herbert R Lottman (1996) Jules Verne: an exploratory biography St Martin’s Press.

One of the most comprehensive websites on Jules Verne is Zvi Har’El’s Jules Verne Collection [http://jv.gilead.org.il] and we are grateful to Nikky and René Paul, the site’s current digitisation team, for their help in providing images for the readers’ guide.

Other websites on Jules Verne include:
Dutch Jules Verne Society [http://www.jules-verne.nl]
Garmt de Vries’ Jules Verne Collection [http://www.phys.uu.nl]
JulesVerne.ca [www.julesverne.ca]
Literature Network section on Verne
[www.online-literature.com]
North American Jules Verne Society [www.najvs.org]
Wikipedia entry on Verne [http://en.wikipedia.org]

Around the World in Eighty Days Oxford World Classics' Book Cover showing two big sailing ships in port beneath a mountain back-drop

Journey to the Centre of the Earth Oxford World Classics' Cover

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Oxford World Classics' Book Cover depicting Captain Nemo standing on the deck of his submarine craft The Nautilus
Captin Hatteras Oxford World Classics' Cover