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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm not sure I can read this. It turns out that Verne is an anti-Semite. According to the New York Times, he was a voracious anti-Semite and his publisher Hertzel dialed it back some.
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Of course you should not read it if you believe it may upset you, but if you felt able to read it then you could help highlight those issues that do show up in the story. I don't recall encountering such issues (beyond what I would expect in a text of this era) when reading Verne in the past, but prejudice is not always obvious to those not directly affected by it.