
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]
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