Talk:Around the Moon
| Information about this edition | |
|---|---|
| Edition | Mercier-King translation; unstated edition. |
| Source | Project Gutenberg |
| Contributor(s) | Cetacei |
| Level of progress | Text complete.  50%: not proofread or standardised. |
There seems to be a section missing towards the end when Verne describes the American reaction to the news of the projectile's discovery. It would be great to include this section as Verne offers his commentary on pseudo-scientific speculation which is a very articulate expression. —unsigned comment by 216.208.76.98 (talk) 15:11, 19 November 2007.
- Is the missing section in the original? Or was this published separately? either way, please add it and we will figure out what to do with it. If you cant figure out where to put it, click here: American reaction to the news of the projectile's discovery, and drop in the text. Thanks, John Vandenberg 21:24, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
The last chapter appears to be comoplete. The reader may have been confusing the Roth translation Around the Moon also on Project Gutenberg. Roth added many pages to this last chapter. Varnesavant 12/19/2008
[edit] Translations
Project Gutenberg (83) is the Mercier-King translation on which this version is based.
Project Gutenberg (16457) is the Edward Roth translation.
Project Gutenberg (12901) is an anonymous translation published by Ward, Lock & Co (London, 1877).
Another public domain translation is by T. H. Linklater (Routledge, London, 1877).
The Mercier-King and Roth translations are extremely poor. Mercier-King has substantial deletion (much more than mentioned above; including most of Verne's science). The Ward-Lock and Linklater/Routledge translations are (at least relatively) much better.
The restored and edited version by N. Wolcott and C. Sánchez restores the missing parts of the Mercier-King translation, and shows what is missing.
Given the fame and popularity of this work, there seems to be a good case for having multiple translations on wikisource. --Zaqrfv 02:22, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
