Talk:Cæsar Cascabel
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| Information about this edition | |
|---|---|
| Edition | Cassell Publishing Company, New York, 1890. |
| Source | Internet archive |
| Contributor(s) | Zaqrfv |
| Level of progress | Text Complete.  |
| Notes | Translated by A. Estoclet. |
[edit] Copyright
Original is marked "Copyright, 1890, by Cassell Publishing Company."
[edit] Translation Quality
Above average for 19th century translations of Verne, although there's some small omissions.
There's some problems with conversion of Verne's lieues/leagues into miles. Like several translators, Estoclet uses a conversion factor based on a league of three miles, common in the English-speaking world. This makes several distances rather too long; for example, in Part 1, Chapter 4, "treize cents lieues" from California to New York becomes "four thousand miles". As in all his novels, Verne uses a French league, of which all the possible definitions are rather shorter.
