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Horrible Editing of a Masterpiece
Although I was looking forward to reading "The Castaways", otherwise known as "The Children of Captain Grant", the beauty of the writing was disturbed by glaring errors. Hyphens and random symbols randomly intrude upon the narrative and dialogue alike. Sentences are cut in half and divided by several lines of blank space. To be honest, the book is published by a .com publishing company that failed to review and edit what could have been a wonderful rendition of an engaging story. It looks as though they downloaded the translation of the story without adjusting for changes in format or checking for errors. Shame on them. Although this particular novel is difficult to find in an English edition, do not waste your money. Let us put an end to cheap publishers demeaning good works. Do not purchase this version--search for another.

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book is excellent -- but softcover indypublish.com is not
The book (story) is excellent and I highly recommend it!
It's a great adventure and one of the best from Jules Verne.
I've read it many times as a kid, and it certainly deserves
5 stars, but the quality of the softcover indypublish.com
version is abysmal: crooked pages, bad layout with hyphenated
words in the middle of lines all over... certainly does not
worth $...

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a must read
I read it in Russian (under a different title-Captain Grant's children)when I was a child and it is probably one of the best adventure books ever!!!!!!!!!!! The russian movie based on the book was good too....I tried to find an English version for my husband, who had no idea about this book...I am glad there is one now...Highly recommend to youth and adults who are loking for a wonderful adventure...