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Title: Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne, John Bolen ISBN: 1-4001-0027-5 Publisher: Tantor Media Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 9 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The best Jules Verne book nobody has ever heard of
Comment: Michael Strogoff is a broad adventure that is completely out of context with the science fiction for which Verne is renowned. When I mention this book to people, nobody has ever heard of it. The story is compelling and the characters heroic. Only some of the trite cliches in character and plot (The perfection of the hero and heroine, the pat "Happily ever after..." ending) prevent this from 5 stars. The book provides a kind exposure to russian names and places and works well as a lead in to loftier, authentic russian literature particularly Tolstoy who captures similar broad vista adventures. Michael Strogoff has been required reading in my family for three generations.
Rating: 4
Summary: Exciting Adventure
Comment: My paperback mysteriously disappeared ages ago-- I'm so glad to see the book is back in print, in several editions! Not only is MICHAEL STROGOFF one of Jules Verne's least-known books, it also spawned one of the least-known Jules Verne film adaptations! Seek out if you can, from 1937, SOLDIER AND THE LADY, starring Anton Walbrook (the hero), Akim Tamiroff (the villain!) and Ed Brophy (the comic-relief newspaper-reporter). It feels like a Disney "adventure" film decades before Disney started doing them!
Rating: 5
Summary: Spellbinding story plus geography lesson
Comment: I first read Michael Strogoff in the Classics Illustrated comics version. Then I read it textually in the N.C. Wyeth illustrated edition, and later picked up a paperback that came out in the mid 1950s. I remember taking out my atlas and tracing his route across the Russian Empire, I believe from St. Petersburg to the shores of Lake Baikal. Learned some things about Russian geography that I never forgot, in addition to enjoying the great adventure story.
I found out later that Jules Verne wrote in vivid detail about places he had never physically visited. Would like to get some opinions from native Russians or travelers who really know the places mentioned. But even if they do reveal all kinds of mistakes or misperceptions, the story is still a great one.
Would like to purchase a new copy of Michael Strogoff to replaced my old paperback. But now they tell us that Verne's works were usually abridged in English translation, to become "novels for boys" without the political commentary and other adult details. So I guess I will wait until I know that there is an unabridged English translation available, like for Mysterious Island and some others.
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Title: Drums by James Boyd, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 0689801769 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 30 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 0688078176 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 20 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson, N.C. Wyeth ISBN: 0684188775 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: November, 1987 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: David Balfour: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad by Robert Louis Stevenson, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 0684197367 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter, Nora A. Smith, Date Douglas Wiggin, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 068419340X Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 30 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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