Review: Everything Jules Verne but the Illustrations
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2012
Jules Verne's works, the lavishly illustrated original "Les Voyages Extraordinaires" editions a friend owned and shared with me and their translations helped turned me into a Sci-Fi fan early in my childhood. Strangely, while inevitably 'dated', I found that Verne's extraordinary stories continue to be readable today probably for reasons completely different that his contemporaries found them so or me as a child loved them so much but readable nevertheless.I am not going to review any of the 33 novels and a few short stories that make up this collection but it may be worth discussing what the reader is getting for his or her money. These may not be Jules Verne's 'complete works' but, simply scanning through the table of contents, I was able to find all the Verne's books I knew of and even one or two I didn't. They all appear to be some early 20th Century English translations which I find quite charming. These are good quality translations and I detected exactly one typo so far, after some 100 pages worth of reading - in other words, the text is clean.Each novel/story can be accessed directly from the main table of contents and each novel has its own chapters breakdown. The publishers even included the original editor's notes that prefaced the books at the time of publication.For any Jules Verne fan who owns a Kindle getting this collection for a couple of dollars should be a no-brainer. I am aware that this is not the only Jules Verne bundle available for purchase and it's quite possible that some individual Jules Verne works could probably be obtained for free but 33 works presented as well formatted for Kindle clean text should be worth a couple of dollars for the sheer convenience. The only feature I'm missing is the original French editions illustrations.