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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 7, 2024 21:59:54 GMT
Ok, let's go for the next novel - which one to guess ... This first image is also not included in the books and only published in the Magasin d'Éducation:
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Post by phileasfogg on Oct 8, 2024 18:07:49 GMT
Hmmm, this is a tough one. The picture is of a grand building in an urban environment but it isn’t the reform club (and besides we have done Around the World) and there are not many others where this would be the setting. My best guess is that this could be from the beginning of Michael Strogoff when they are at the party, but perhaps I am thinking of that because I just finished rereading it.
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 9, 2024 13:12:15 GMT
Probably... I don't think in Russia at these times such a high building was settled ... Viewing such a skyscraper was still quite unusual at the time of Jules Verne should bring the thoughts towards which area of the world? ... Right! So it must be a novel playing in this area!
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Post by farseer on Oct 9, 2024 13:42:07 GMT
Problem here for me is that I'm far from an expert on Verne illustrations, so I depend on them depicting some recognizable scene or a representative setting that I remember from the books. If we just get a big building... well, it doesn't tell enough to point definitely to one novel. It's true it discards some novels that are 100% away from civilization, or even 100% away from cities that could contain such a tall building. But, since the building doesn't necessarily have a big role in the story, a number of Verne novels might have an illustration like that, even if it's not representative of the actual story.
So let's speculate... I'm going to say Godfrey Morgan (aka School for Crusoes). Even though most of it takes place in a deserted island, in the beginning we get the part where there's an auction that maybe could take place in such a big building, and Godfrey's uncle is a millionaire who may also be around big buildings. It's far from the only possibility, though.
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 9, 2024 16:11:40 GMT
A very good thinking and brainstorming - and I presume this should be the idea of it. You are in the right part of the hemisphere, but not in the right novel, and the image is presenting a building which is settled much more in the East of your result of brainstorming ... Let's continue to present a second image, this time taken from the regular book edition:
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Post by phileasfogg on Oct 11, 2024 21:08:24 GMT
Finally got my computer fixed and can view the images properly again!
Ok, so if it's the right hemisphere as Godfrey Morgan, it is going to be on the West Coast of the US or in the pacific. The setting of both is urban. That is a big clue. I almost want to guess the Begum's Millions. The atmosphere fits, but it doesn't seem right, and I'm familiar enough with that novel that I don't recognise either illustration.
I'm going to guess Le Testament d’un excentrique (The Will of an Eccentric). I know parts of that to be in an urban setting and I also know it to take place in America.
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 12, 2024 4:52:32 GMT
Perfectly right - Le Testament d'un excentrique is the correct answer. I was keeping one more image for that you'll see here:
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 12, 2024 4:55:47 GMT
... so going for the next challenge ...
What novel are these from ...
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 12, 2024 5:04:16 GMT
for the Admin: Can you save and link my pictures to a resisting place for this forum, as I do not like to keep them all the time available in my webspace ... Thanks.
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Post by farseer on Oct 12, 2024 18:26:07 GMT
for the Admin: Can you save and link my pictures to a resisting place for this forum, as I do not like to keep them all the time available in my webspace ... Thanks. I'm not the admin, but I don't think this forum allows us to upload pictures. What I would do is open a free account in a picture-hosting site (in my case I use imgur.com ), upload the pictures there and then post the BB code here to embed the pictures in my posts. That way, the pictures will exist indefinitely (supposedly).
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Post by farseer on Oct 13, 2024 15:46:26 GMT
... so going for the next challenge ...
What novel are these from ...
Two books come to mind when I look at the first picture, but one of them we have already done. So I will say the other, even though I can't identify the second picture. Is it Two Years' Vacation?
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 14, 2024 9:21:48 GMT
No.
If you know the novel, look at the vulcano in the back to get an idea ... ;-)
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 15, 2024 2:58:32 GMT
apparently no idea? Ok, one more for this novel:
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Post by farseer on Oct 15, 2024 20:56:23 GMT
I think I remember that picture. Is that The Castaways of the Flag?
If so, it has been really difficult, because I didn't remember that scene with the two boys in the first picture, although I guess it could fit the book... But one tends to think of book where kids play a more prominent role, like in my first guess, or even in The Survivors of the Jonathan, which I didn't say because it had already been used. The volcano is also not a big part of The Castaways of the Flag, unless I'm misremembering.
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 16, 2024 4:34:33 GMT
Hi,
what a strange thing, these English titles of translated novels... In the first moment I only thought "what he is talking about?" and I had to check my English secondary literature to find out what original title this is: Seconde Patrie.
And to reply: Yes, that is correct!
The first two images are also only published in the Pre-Publication in the Magasin d'Éducation and not contained in the book - whereof the first one, if I remember right at the moment, is adjoint to the novel by an error, as it belongs originally to the novel published right before Vernes novel. That is also the reason, why the scene being shown does not really fit with the novel. But on the other hand, it could be also a scene from the book in the beginning when Verne recapitulates the original novel content from Swiss Robinsons.
One more illustration guessing I prepared ....
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