Thread: Reading Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires
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Old 07-12-2021, 01:35 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Most versions of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea are missing 23% of the book. It should say someplace that this was added back in. If not, it hasn't and it's thus incomplete/abridged.
Well, the edition I have has around 141K words. I have gone to Project Gutenberg and got the complete French edition, and it's 139K words. Translations may have a different word count from the original (for example, a novel in Spanish will usually have more words that the same novel in English), but French and Spanish being so related I think it's safe to say that my edition is not missing 23% of the book.

It's quite possible that there are some shorter paragraphs or details missing, though.
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