Dr Ox and Other Stories

Overview:

  • Title: Dr Ox and Other Stories
  • Author: Jules Verne
  • Year: 1964
  • Publisher: Associated Booksellers
  • Price: $2.75
  • Pages: 191
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Dr Ox and Other Stories
  • Notes: Each story is prefaced with a short unsigned introduction, presumably by I. O. Evans. Page numbers reflect the start of the story, rather than the half-title or introduction as these are used inconsistently. In the Introduction, he states that some geographical and technical detail has been omitted. There is no statement of the translator. The price is from the The Jules Verne Encyclopedia. A Drama in the Air begins "In the month of September, 185—, I arrived at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. My passage through the principal German cities had been brilliantly marked by balloon ascents; but as yet no German had accompanied me in my car, nor had the successful attempts at Paris tempted the grave Teutons to attempt an aerial voyages". This is an abbreviated Towle translation. A Drama in Mexico begins "On 18th October, 1825, The Asia, a high-built Spanish ship, and the Constanzia, a brig of eight guns, cast anchor off the isle of Guajan, one of the Mariannas. The crews of these vessels, badly fed, ill-paid, and harrassed with fatigue during their six months voyage for Spain, had been secretly plotting a mutiny." This is an abbreviated Kingston translation. Master Zacharias begins "The city of Geneva lies at the west end of the lake of that name. The Rhone, which splits the town into two sections, is itself divided near its centre of the city by an island." This is an abbreviated translation, although of which text is unsure. Dr. Ox begins "If you try to find, on any map of Flanders, ancient or modern, the small town of Quiquendone, you are unlikely to succeed. Is Quiquendone, then, one of those towns which have disappeared? No." This is an abbreviated translation, probably of Towle. A Winter Amid the Ice begins "The curé of the ancient church of Dunkirk rose at five in the morning on the 12th of May, 18 , to hold, as was his custom, Low Mass for the benefit of a few pious sinners." This seems to be a modified version of the Towle translation.