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Re:Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume ... by bzbarsky on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:12PM (#22295689)
The initial English translations of Verne _were_ considerably bowdlerized, sometimes with large chunks cut out or summarized in the interests of making them more "kids books" than adult ones.

There are some modern translations that might be better on this front.

Edit: Mentioned elsewhere in this thread: <https://19thlevel.blogspot.com/2012/08/jules-verne-translati..., which I have now bookmarked!

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Re:Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume ... by lordfrikk on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:04AM (#22308117)
Your link has a ">" at the end which makes it not work.
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Re:Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume ... by bzbarsky on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:58AM (#22316092)
Ugh, I keep forgetting that HN's URL delimiter handling is completely broken.... Unfortunately I can't edit my comment at this point, but the link should have been https://19thlevel.blogspot.com/2012/08/jules-verne-translati...
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