Title: Off on a Comet!
Title Record # 2695139
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 2013-07-00
Variant Title of: Hector Servadac, voyages et aventures à travers le monde solaire [French] (1877) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 15
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: Librivox (1), science fiction (1)
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 2013-07-00
Variant Title of: Hector Servadac, voyages et aventures à travers le monde solaire [French] (1877) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 15
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note:
Translated by Ellen E. Frewer in 1877, "corrected and expanded" by Ron Miller – evidently from the 1911 version (below).
This is an edition of the entire novel Hector Servadac – not Part I only, as the exclamation mark suggests.
From the 2013 ebook (title screen viewed as Amazon "Look inside"):
• "Off on a Comet!"
• "Edited, Annotated and Illustrated by Ron Miller"
• "... The original 19th century translation has been corrected and expanded. Includes more than 100 illustrations from the original edition along with an appendix with diagram and map."
Comparison of the entire opening scene and the opening paragraphs of Chapters I-VI (viewed as Amazon "Look inside" 2020-02-25) shows no difference between Miller's text and that of 1911 Off on a Comet or Hector Servadac, hence that of Project Gutenberg Ebook #1353.
That 1911 version appears to be very lightly revised from the original, except that Part II Chapter III is entirely omitted.
The 2013 ebook contains no Contents list and begins without any half-title or heading as "Part I" or "Book I".
44 chapters must be expected, if this text is that of Gutenberg "expanded" by providing a version of the chapter removed in 1911.
Sections "Publication history" and "Antisemitism controversy", in English Wikipedia's article on the novel (above), identify some points where the text may be "corrected".
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Current Tags: Librivox (1), science fiction (1)
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Off on a Comet! | 2013-07-00 | Jules Verne | Baen Books (The Ron Miller Science Fiction Classics Collection) | 978-1-62579-041-5 | $3.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Ron Miller |