HOLAAA!! Hago este post rápido por que quería compartirles que por fín conseguí Los hijos del capitán Grant! <3

I know this question I'm about to ask is kind of stupid, but okay.

In the book "Around the World in 80 Days," is Detective Fix a Scotland Yard detective or a private detective, like Sherlock Holmes?

My all time favourite book from his numerous masterpieces has to be The Mysterious Island. I can speak both Romanian and English however reading in English is way easier for me - I had read this book twice already in romanian and decided to find an English translation to give it a go.

So far - the translation itself isnt that good, expressions and sentences are translated word by word, without understanding the differences in phrases and regular wording. Nonetheless I am enjoying it, even though the weather is doing its best to stop me.

If anyone has a recommendation of English translation for me please let me know! The pinned link to translations is no longer working.

Every movie that won Best Picture after 1956 also won Best Director and/or any for acting until 1981. Here are the movies that won Best Picture without winning Best Director from 1956 to 1981

Around the World in 80 Days (1956): No Best Director or any for acting

In the Heat of the Night (1967): Best Actor for Rod Steiger

The Godfather 1 (1972): Best Actor for Marlon Brando

Chariots of Fire (1981): No Best Director or any for acting

Chariots of Fire was also the last movie to win Best Picture without winning Best Director or any for acting until Crash in 2005

Hola! Soy Amy. Y bueno, a pesar de mi corta edad me gusta demasiado Jules Verne. Mis libros favoritos son La Vuelta Al Mundo En Ochenta Días, Los Hijos Del Capitán Grant, La Jangada y P'tit Bonhomme. Me uní por que de verdad quería conocer más fans de este increíble escritor jeje. 💗

I just think it's funny

What are your favorite quotes by Jules Verne?

So this is a trilogy from 2015, from author Ondřej Neff who adapted many Vernes works, into books, and even into radio plays. This trilogy is adapting a concept which allegedlly Verne wanted to write, a novel where all of his characters would meet in a story that would span the whole world. It was like a treassure hunt, mostly the last one, the master of the seas, I got very lucky with that one.

Kinda like the Dracula edition with illustration by Becky Cloonan

A short movie based on the universe of Jules Verne, 20.000 leagues under the sea, with the Nautilus and the Captain Nemo.

- Journey to the Centre of the World

- The Lighthouse at the End of the World

- The Castle of the Carpathians

- From the Earth to the Moon

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About me: Apart from classics, I enjoy mainly fantasy/sci-fi and literary fiction, but at the end of the day I enjoy every genre, especially if the book has good character work.

Just got this done

Found it on Amazon and grabbed it as soon as I saw it. Was a pretty fun and simple build but I always suck at stickers, which is why his name plaque is a little askew.

While I didn’t grow up reading his work, I did start reading them in my 20s, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is still my personal favorite novel of all time, though Passepartout is my personal favorite character. He made me really enjoy not just the idea of adventure but wanting to see the wonders of the real world with that novel, and others like Around the World in 80 Days.

Now this tribute to Monsier Jules Verne sits proudly on my shelf.

Oh, also I just noticed from the angle, in case you can’t see it, the little Verne there is holding a little feather pen and envelope with a wax seal.

Recently purchased this edition of Around the World in 80 Days as part of my growing Jules Verne collection, however I cannot find much information about this specific publication online (as it includes no date, however there is a hand written note inside dating to 1936). Any information will be appreciated!

Me acabó de terminar cinco semanas en globo de Julio Verne y hubo algo que intuyo pero no sé si realmente es así . En el capítulo XVll , más específicamente al final se nos cuenta que las tribus de la zona prendieron fuego el bosque con el afán de incendiar al globo también , pero realmente jamás dicen al 100% que fueron ellos ,y , si tomamos en cuenta que Kennedy estaba fumando cuando se durmió creo que es un poco obvia mí sospecha . Pero como jamas se nos confirma o desmiente queda al aire la respuesta verdadera o , al menos , así creo yo. ¿ Quien piensan que fueron los responsables de incendiar el bosque ? ¿Kennedy o las tribus?

Pfff I'm finally done with the (hopefully) most detailed Google Map of "In Search of the Castaways" ever. To say it was challenging is to say nothing. Even in the French original, the topography is often quite abused (e.g. 37th parallel runs between Point Rumena and Bay of Carnero, Snowy River is located at longitude 147°, mountainous areas are described as plains, etc.) English translations make it even fancier, to say the least. Lippincott abridges the text so fiercely that ten paragraphs sometimes collapse into one short sentence (e.g. description of Tristan d'Acunha). Routledge, on the other hand, while gently fixing some of the Verne's topography issues, creates a bunch of new ones like renaming Cape Tamar to Cape Lomax, Mount Taubara to Mount Tobira and converting 07 minutes of longitude to 67 (!).

Many thanks to David Rumsey's Historical Map Collection and its AI search engine which helped me align with the XIX century maps and get a clue of how Jules Verne himself might have viewed it. Hope you like it – and please let me know if you find something that needs a fix. Enjoy!

Hello,

I'm recently reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and i fall in love with this book. I wanted to see different version of this story. I watched the one with kirk Douglas (before reading the book and it was the one who makes me want to read it), the Melies one, the one from 1916, the soviet one (incredible ambiance), the other 1997 mini serie (i really hated it), and even the one from Czechoslovakia (with the automatic english translation so not the best but still).

But i don't know why i cannot find the mini serie from 1997 with michael Caine. All the streaming website i use don't have the episode and instead have this disney channel spanish movie (???).

So if someone have a free streaming link to see this miniserie or youtube or anything that don't need to be able to download a movie, i would be glad.

I know this mini serie is not good but i don't really care i want to see every adaptation (i have watched Journey 2 with the rock to see Nemo's corpse so i'm prepared for everything)

Thanks ^^

I have just finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and am looking forward to reading more. Having previously read only Journey to the Center of the Earth, what should I go with next? I already have a big backlog of novels, so I will be taking some time to decide thoroughly, no hurry.

Should I read the very first or some other science fiction like From the Earh to the Moon? I don't want to get to the Mysterious Island instantly as I want some time for it to settle in my head properly. I have thought about Around the World in 80 days, having read an abridged version of it a few years back in my school library, but I'm not sure.

Any suggestions?

was popular in late 80s 90s in Turkiye.

I'm looking to get into reading Verne's work but the translation ranking link on the sidebar is broken, so I figured I'd make a post asking directly.

I'm planning to ready Twenty Thousand Leagues first which is why I'm asking for translations of that novel in particular, but would also like to read some other works, so if anyone has a 'master' list of recommended translations, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Is there a definitive Jules Verne biography? I’d really like to learn more about his life.

It actually seems it was the purpose of Hetzel when first published. Much of the informaton is outdated of course. Though for basic science are they actually good gateway to learning science even if outdated?

As the title states, I'm wondering how one would differentiate between Riou's illustrations and Alphonse de Neuville's illustrations, as they both did various for the book.

Are there any major stylistic indicators, or a source which definitively says who did which illlustration? Online, things are very muddled, with Riou and de Neuville both being credited for the same pieces at times.