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- PARIS (AFP) - A newly-discovered
work by Jules Verne, author of adventure classics like "Around the
World in 80 Days," was published in France Wednesday, nearly a century
after his death.
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- "The Beautiful Yellow Danube," a thriller about
smuggling in the Austro-Hungarian empire, was written in 1901, but Verne's
editor disliked it and it remained unpublished at his death four years
later.
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- The editor, Jules Hetzel, then persuaded Verne's son
Michel to re-write the book and make it more exciting, and in the edition
published in 1908 under the name "The Pilot of the Danube" only
the first chapter was unchanged.
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- "Between the two 'Danubes' by Verne the father and
Verne the son there is nothing in common except chapter one and the scene
of the action," Olivier Dumas, president of the Jules Verne society,
told Le Figaro newspaper.
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- The original type-written manuscript was discovered in
1977 by an Italian collector who was researching the Hetzel family archives,
and has been till now only circulated privately.
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