Talk:Cæsar Cascabel
| Information about this edition | |
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| Edition: | Cassell Publishing Company, New York, 1890. |
| Source: | Internet archive |
| Contributor(s): | Zaqrfv |
| Level of progress: | Text Complete. 
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| Notes: | Translated by A. Estoclet. |
Copyright edit
Original is marked "Copyright, 1890, by Cassell Publishing Company."
Translation Quality edit
Above average for 19th century translations of Verne, although there's some small omissions.
There's some problems with conversion of Verne's lieues/leagues into miles. Like several translators, Estoclet uses a conversion factor based on a league of three miles, common in the English-speaking world. This makes several distances rather too long; for example, in Part 1, Chapter 4, "treize cents lieues" from California to New York becomes "four thousand miles". As in all his novels, Verne uses a French league, of which all the possible definitions are rather shorter.