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The Jules Verne Encyclopedia First Edition

by Brian Taves (Author), Jr. Michaluk, Stephen (Author), Edward Baxter (Author),
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From "Around the World in 80 Days" to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", millions of readers around the world have enjoyed the works of Jules Verne, the father of science fiction and one of the most important literary figures of all time. Particularly enjoyable is the autobiographical section that meticulously compiles all references Verne made in his sole autobiographical piece, "Memories of Childhood and Youth," with those made to a variety of journalists. There is also an in-depth, annotated listing of all English language versions of Verne's novels, an analysis of recurring themes in his work, and a detailed discussion of the filmed versions of his books. The authors trace each variation in Verne's published work, including "Paris in the Twentieth Century".
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  1. ISBN-10
    0810829614
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0810829619
  3. Edition
    First Edition
  4. Publisher
    Scarecrow Pr
  5. Publication date
    April 9, 1996
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    9 x 0.75 x 11.5 inches
  8. Print length
    296 pages
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Brian Taves and Stephen Michaluk, Jr. together have the experience of over a half-century of Verne collecting and scholarship. Michaluk is a Verne collector extraordinaire with an extensive bibliographic background and the most notable and comprehensive personal collection of Verne editions in the United States. Taves, a librarian at the Library of Congress, has long had a special interest in the film and television adaptations of Verne's work.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scarecrow Pr; First Edition (April 9, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810829614
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810829619
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.75 x 11.5 inches
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Brian Taves

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Brian Taves is author of a range of books on film history and popular culture, from the silent cinema to the era of television, on genres from science fiction to historical adventures. Taves earned his doctorate in Cinema-Television Critical Studies at the University of Southern California in 1988 and has been a film archivist with the Library of Congress since 1990.

The newest book by Taves, Hollywood Presents Jules Verne, chronicles more than a century of adaptations of the science fiction pioneer's stories to the screen. Taves has been the author of countless articles on Verne over the last thirty years, and edited and coauthored The Jules Verne Encyclopedia (1996), a Locus nominee for Best Nonfiction Book. Taves is currently editing the Palik Series, stories and plays by Verne never before translated into English, for the North American Jules Verne Society, published by BearManor Fiction (search "BearManor Verne" on amazon).

Taves wrote the first biography of the acclaimed silent movie producer, Thomas H. Ince, a volume named to the "ten best" film books of 2011 on Huffington Post, and chosen by Turner Classic Movies channel (TCM) as their "book-of-the-month" for January 2012.

Examining different filmmaking professions, Taves wrote his first book on director Robert Florey (1986, reprinted in 2014 by BearManor). Taves explored the career of P.G. Wodehouse as a screenwriter, commentator on Hollywood, and the source of numerous screen adaptations (McFarland, 2006).

In a series of volumes, Taves offered the first scholarly examination of the historical adventure genre. He examined the genre first in film and television, in The Romance of Adventure (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), then delineated one of its most distinctive authors, Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure (McFarland, 2005), following it with a critical anthology of Mundy stories, articles, and poems which had never appeared in book form before, Winds From the East (Ariel Press, 2006).

All of the books Taves has written are profusely illustrated with rare illustrations discovered in the course of research in primary sources and archives around the country, meticulously documented in footnotes. Additional images and commentary are publicly available on his Facebook page.

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Contains: Jules Verne, An Interpretation by Taves; American JV Society by Michaluk; A Day In Amiens (1949) by Iraldi; JV's Autobiography, A Collage Of Interviews by Taves; Tribulations Of A Translator Of JV by Baxter; The Humbug translation by Baxter; Afterword on The Humbug (1985) by Dumas; JV, A Bibliographic And Collecting Guide by Michaluk (which provides the bulk of this book); Philatelic Tribute To JV by Cartier; Hollywood's JV by Taves; and the index.
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