May 2003 Broadcast of Gutenberg Radio.
Featured :
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
[The conclusion of Nemo's tale, Captain of the submarine Nautilus.]
Stereo : The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Mono : The Legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
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Franz Kafka Metamorphosis.
Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Jules Verne The Mysterious Island.
H. G. Wells The Time Machine.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Bram Stoker Dracula.
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The Legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
In the time of the Great Rebellion, the Manor of Baskerville was held by
Hugo. There was in him, a wanton, cruel humour. He came to love the daughter
of a yeoman,
who held lands near the Baskerville estate. But the young maiden would avoid
him. So
Hugo, with five or six companions, stole down on the farm and carried off the
maiden.
By the aid of the growth of ivy which covered the south wall of the manor,
she escaped.
Hugo cried that he would render his body and soul to the Powers of Evil, if
he might
overtake her.
Hogo's companions followed him over the moor, it opened into a broad space,
in which
stood two of those great stones, which were set by forgotten peoples, in the
days of
old. The moon was shining bright upon the clearing, and there in the center
lay the maid
where she had fallen dead. Standing over Hugo, plucking at his throat, stood
a great, black
beast, shaped like a hound, larger than any hound that mortal eye has seen.
The thing tore the
throat out of Hugo Baskerville.
Some thoughts on the Gutenberg Edition of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Born in the French river town of Nantes, Jules Verne (1828-1905) had a
passion for the sea.
The stimulus for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was an 1865 fan letter from a
fellow writer,
Madame George Sand. Initially, Verne's narrative was influenced by the 1863
uprising of
Poland against Russia. But in the 1860s, France had to treat Russia as an
ally.
Shark attacks, giant squid, cannibals, hurricanes, whale hunts, and other
rip-roaring adventures
erupt at random, giving the novel an air of documentary realism. Verne adds
backbone to the action by developing three recurring motifs, Nemo's past life
and future intentions, the mounting tension between
Nemo and harpooner Ned Land, and Ned's ongoing schemes to escape from the
Nautilus.
Verne regards the sea from many angles, in the domain of marine biology, he
gives us thumbnail
sketches of fish, seashells, coral, sometimes in great catalogs that swirl
past like musical cascades;
in the realm of geology, he studies volcanoes literally inside and out; in
the world of commerce,
he celebrates the high-energy entrepreneurs who lay the Atlantic Cable or dig
the Suez Canal. And
Verne's marine engineering proves authoritative. His specifications for an
open-sea submarine
and a self-contained diving suit were decades before their time.
Much of the novel's brooding power comes from captain Nemo. Inventor,
musician, Renaissance genius,
he's the prototype not only for countless renegade scientists in popular
fiction, even for Sherlock Holmes!
Dr. Robert D. Ballard, finder of the Titanic, confesses that this was his
favorite book as a teenager,
and Cousteau, most renowned of marine explorers, called it his shipboard
bible.
This Gutenberg translation is a faithful rendering of the original French
texts published in Paris by
J. Hetzel et Cie. Although prior English versions have often been heavily
abridged, this new translation
is complete, to the smallest substantive detail.
F. P. WALTER.
University of Houston.
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