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Post by kawdjer on Oct 22, 2024 23:15:39 GMT
I am not so sure. Maybe Mistress Branican because of the woman on the first illustration?
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Post by phileasfogg on Oct 23, 2024 10:01:23 GMT
I am not so sure. Maybe Mistress Branican because of the woman on the first illustration? Mistress Branican is a good guess and one that I probably wouldn't have made! I think you are correct, but in case you are not, I'm going to guess Clovis Dardentor |
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Post by farseer on Oct 23, 2024 15:49:29 GMT
Maybe Mistress Branican because of the woman on the first illustration? Mistress Branican was also my guess. My mind wandered there like yours when I saw the woman by a boat in the first illustration, but that was only an intuition, and it really could be many other books. However, that bell in the second picture is very distinctive, and unless I'm mistaken it illustrates the scenes when the remains of Captain Branican's ship are found. |
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Post by garmt on Oct 25, 2024 12:21:51 GMT
You are correct, it was in fact Mrs. Branican.
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Post by kawdjer on Oct 26, 2024 20:04:51 GMT
Let's guess the novel with following illustrations.   |
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Post by phileasfogg on Oct 26, 2024 21:38:43 GMT
The bear and the outfit the man is wearing is giving me big Michael Strogoff signals. The two men in the canoe could be Blount and Jolivet.
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 26, 2024 23:07:14 GMT
Honestly said you are blaming me ... I know the first picture, but fail to attribute it to the right novel, and the second one is not really helpful to find the solution ... At least, it is not Strogoff!
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 26, 2024 23:29:59 GMT
I was very curious about the solution, so I "plaid unfair" and checked by searching ... which even this way was not easy! It must be a novel in northern areas due to the bear, and most of them have been already object of guessing - so which one more is having such a reference?
Ok, got it ... Congratulations, this choice of pictures from this novel is really hard stuff to come to the solution ... if nobody else will find it I will give the response ...
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Post by kawdjer on Oct 27, 2024 5:14:38 GMT
The subject of the novel is different than the others... It is also not so easy for me to find an illustration which does not reveal directly the title of the novel. One more Illustration:  |
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Post by farseer on Oct 27, 2024 11:14:51 GMT
if nobody else will find it I will give the response ... Yes, but please give us time to try to guess first, since you looked the pictures up. |
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Post by farseer on Oct 27, 2024 12:20:26 GMT
It is also not so easy for me to find an illustration which does not reveal directly the title of the novel. Remember that the goal is to give us a fair chance to guess, though (although not making it too obvious and easy). Having said that, looking at the pictures, I really have no idea... What novel has fighting a bear and character smartly dressed in a rainy port city? And one you say has a subject different from the others, and it's difficult to choose a picture that does not easily reveal the book... and Mac Nabbs says it's really hard to guess the book from these pictures... I don't know. The illustration seems to be signed Roux, which would point to the second part of Verne's career. I'll say Cesar Cascabel, since the bear scene sounds like it might have happened there, but the rainy city doesn't really fit. |
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Post by phileasfogg on Oct 27, 2024 14:18:12 GMT
I am also having a tought time. The rain makes me think it's somewhere in Britain or France, as do the architecture of the buildings in the background, which is why I don't think it's Cesar Cascabel. However, there are no bears in Britain or France, so it must be a novel that starts in Europe but takes place outside of it. Antifer came to mind as I know Roux illustrated that one, but I know it well enough to know that these images do not fit.
I'm going to guess The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz. An Eastern Europe setting might fill some of these gaps, but I am again sceptical.
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Post by farseer on Oct 27, 2024 15:15:14 GMT
I'm going to guess The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz. An Eastern Europe setting might fill some of these gaps, but I am again sceptical. Storitz is one of the novels that we have already done, though. |
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Post by kawdjer on Oct 27, 2024 16:04:56 GMT
In the Turkish translation the novel is a short story in another Jules Verne book.
One more hint: Mac Nabbs guess with "northern areas" is correct.
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Post by farseer on Oct 27, 2024 17:23:00 GMT
Wait, is it a short story, then? We were only considering novels... Or is it a shorter novel that was published in your country together with another novel? Is it one of the 62 novels listed here in this list of Extraordinary Voyages?: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_extraordinaires |
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