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Please note that you are on the English Wikisource. Authors listed here should have works in English listed, and not any works written in other languages. Also, we list authors whose works are not under copyright. Most of the author pages you created have works that are still under copyright, so we cannot host their works here. Author pages with no public domain texts and with works only in non-English languages are usually deleted, because they do not reflect any content we can host here. --EncycloPetey (talk) 05:04, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Two Years' Vacation

If you add this text, please be sure that the translation you use is in the public domain, and the source is identified. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:56, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

It's been a couple of days now and, in addition to addressing the point above, if you could please start adding some of the actual content, it would go along way in insuring everything added so far won't be nominted for deletion due to that lack of content.

We're not in the business of setting up dozens and dozens of mainspace/subpages that do not have any content for too long. Thank you in advance. -- George Orwell III (talk) 22:08, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

I see there have already been questions about this book. I have a couple more. Who is "S. Armstrong", the translator? Or, is this "Scribner Armstrong", the publishers of many of Verne's books? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 02:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I've already changed the frontpage back twice to reflect "Scribner Armstrong" as the publishers (or as the "edition" to be exact), but didn't bother changing this nuance on all the "sub-pages". My research shows this work has really been butchered since its first English translation (UK) in 1889... and while the Title is the literal translation from French, the actual English (UK) title would have been (or was) Two Years' Holiday. The later variants based on the "holiday(uk) = vacation(us)" premise seem to morph into either (A) Long Vacation & similar -- OR -- follow the Sampson Low & Co. of London title scheme based on variants of the title, Adrift in the Pacific. Fwiw... no specific translator was cited in any of the off-shoots that I've managed to find until 1964 or thereabouts either.

I've located what I believe to be the "abridged version" of Adrift in the Pacific and uploaded it HERE. Finding other editions from here in the U.S. are slim beyond that copy it seems (though you should have some fun finding all the variations on a theme just by using parts of the "first" line - During the night of March 9, 1860, the clouds, merging with the sea, confined to the swim within sight. - this is where it becomes obvious that a scan backed, formlly published English translation would be optimal here though these are mostly published in the 1960s and have copyright issued. I'd be happy to see the French version backed by scan if it isn't already. -- George Orwell III (talk) 05:25, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

The text of the Preface and Chapter I.1 is not in English as it is spoken anywhere. While the individual words are English, the way they have been put together is most certainly not English. Where has this "translation" come from? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 02:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm with you - something doesn't add up here. -- George Orwell III (talk) 05:25, 25 June 2013 (UTC)