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wanted to read this book for a long time as I am an avid reader of science fiction novels.
This is considered to be one of the crown jewels of the genre, I found the book to be interesting, yet not without flaws,

The firstpages I find to be flawless prose, as the narrator of our story describes his efforts to find and destroy a monster in the seas that is attacking merchant ships.
He soon discovers there is no monster instead, a submarine led by a mysterious man named Captain Nemo is terrorizing the waters.
The book goes on to describe the narrator, a man named Arronax, and his relationship with Captain Nemo and Nemo's ship, the Nautilus.


I found much of the book to rely on description, rather than action, and while it was overall very interesting, parts got to be tedious to read.
A sorry example of the laziness and irresponsibility of many trade editors today and it's especially shameful in a publication targeted to students and youngsters.


First, the basic text is dreadful: though unidentified, it's the long discredited translation signed by "Mercier Lewis" and rushed into print inby the London firm of Sampson, Low.
As modern scholars have documented on numerous occasions, Verne's original French was politically censored, drastically abridged, couched in stilted Victorian prose, and riddled with hundreds of inane translating errors.
Its clunky, antiquated

English is something no American student could possibly enjoy "I own my heart beat," says the narrator, who actually means, "I admit my heart was pounding".
As for the translating blunders, some are asinine beyond belief Verne's characters start a fire with a lentil Verne: lens.
loosen bolts with a key Verne: wrench, and claim iron is lighter than water Verne: the opposite, of course,

Are these obscure facts Anything but, Over the past four decades, this translation's inadequacy has been bemoaned repeatedly in basic reference works Taves they hired NYU expert Walter James Miller to correct and reword Lewis's text which, in a specially written preface, Miller denounced as a "botched up translation.
slashed and slapdash. " Lewis's renderings, he said, "bristle with technical errors and omit whole passages vital to the technical integrity, the character development, even the humor of the story.
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In short, Simon Schuster could easily have reprinted their ownversion, not ideal but vastly better than Lewis's original.
Or, alternatively, they could have reprinted either of the other two English translations in the public domain, both superior in accuracy and completeness.
But, these days, indolence and ignorance apparently rule in the halls of S S,

So, though this Enriched Classics series boasts on its back covers about its "practical scholarship," the said scholarship, not surprisingly, often works out to be dismally unreliable.
The "helpful notes" and "insightful commentary" can range from the useless to the ridiculous, On p., the explanatory notes can only tell us that such sea creatures as tubipores, gorgones, and spondyles are "various kinds of marine life.
" Big help. They're corals, sea fans, and oysters, folks, On the other hand, when the notes attempt , they're often worse: on p,, for instance, I was amazed to learn that porphitae and asterophytons are "igneous outcrops, " Nooo!!! These aren't rocks, people, they're animals! Jellyfish and starfish, for Lord's sake,

If you're as astonished as I am that such bluff and nonsense is being palmed off on our kids as "scholarship," write S S this week.


Meantime, what edition of,LEAGUES should you acquire First, in addition to this Enriched Classics version, also avoid those other student editions ! published by Scholastic, Tor, and Apple they don't identify it either, but they all blindly reprint this same hopelessMercier Lewis translation.
Fortunately, however, there are four sound paperback texts of,LEAGUES, all readily available, all immeasurably superior in accuracy, completeness, and readablility.
For general readers the Bonner Bantam and Brunetti Signet translations are both worthwhile, For readers wanting an annotated edition, there are two good ones: Butcher's Oxford, which is strong on the novel's genesis and manuscript record, and Miller's own illustrated retranslation U.
S. Naval Institute, which is strong on the marine biology and on which I myself collaborated, All are competitively priced, so there's no need to settle for something inferior,

By the way, the above cited deficiencies may well be typical of this Enriched Classics collection as a whole I note that their edition of Dumas' MONTE CRISTO also features a seriously inadequate text.
Students, parents, and teachers are warned to proceed with caution vis à vis the entire series, Product arrived on time, book as descirbed, happy with product, I am happy with everything with the book, Thanks for everything. I would recommed this company, If you're going to read one of the great classics of literature and you should don't pick up this edition.
It is a reprint of a version that dates back to thes and was exposed thanyears ago for cutting nearly one quarter of Verne's story and mistranslating much of the remainder.
Its reappearance in this edition is all the amazing considering Tor's status as a leading science fiction publisher, and the company's willingness to perpetrate this fraud on is many readers is truly stunning.
If you want to truly get to know Verne's novel, pick up the elegant Naval Institute Press edition, in a modern, complete, updated translation, with commentary by the leading American Verne expert today, Walter James Miller.
That book also comes with many of the artistic engravings that illustrated the original French first edition no illustrations are to be found in the BN Mercier reprint.
Less attractive but academic is the Oxford Classics version of Twenty Thousand Leagues, This review is posted on behalf of the North American Jules Verne Society by Jean Michel Margot, president NAJVS.
It's a good book. I've read it before, and wanted to collect it, I'm glad to be able to do so, Shameful. To use a widely discredited translation when better, accurate translations exist, and to have such horrendous errors in the notes is just shameful.
There is absolutely no reason to reprint a discredited translation that is full of outrageous errors and huge omissions, and which "enriches" the text with completely erroneous notes.
Abysmal. This butchered version of a great story deserves a negative five star rating, No school should purchase this edition, No library should have it on its shelves, And no individual should waste their hard earned money on this when better editions already exist, and when better editions can be easily and readily reprinted by the publisher, Simon Schuster, Inc.


DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK, Much better editions exist. Read the excellent reviews below by J, M. Margot and F. P. Walter to discover what editions you should be looking for,

And if you are a fan of Verne, or just a fan of quality publishing, please write Simon Schuster, Inc.
, and tell them to replace this absolutely abysmal editionespecially since they have access to better translations:

Jack Romanos President and CEO
Simon Schuster, Inc.

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