Dragaera

On Paarfi and his translators

Steve Simmons scs at di.org
Wed Aug 14 14:54:02 PDT 2002

Steve Brust wrote:

> My edition (Little, Brown & Co., 1887) has them in 9 volumes --
>  10 Years Later
>  Raul De Bragalonne Vol 1 and 2
>  Louisa de la Valliere Vol 1 and 2
>  The Man in the Iron Mask Vol 1 and 2
>  Fortunes of d'Artagnon Vol 1 and 2

Some years back one of your publishers reprinted 'The Three Musketeers'
in what was supposedly your favored translation.  TTM had left me cold
in high school and one or two attempts afterwards, but since I'd enjoyed
Paarfi and his language, I gave it a shot.

It was great fun, primarily because the language finally clicked for me.
Thinking it was just all those years of personal development since high
school, I picked up a translation of 'Twenty Years After' -- and bombed.

So I have two questions, really.  Do the other Little/Brown editions
you have seem to be by the same translator, and does Tor have any
interest in doing the rest of them?  Advanced Book Exchange shows a number
of items in print at prices from the reasonable to $17,500(!), but even
`reasonable' is more than I'd go for a pig in a poke.

For those who are wondering, the reprinted volume was 'The Three
Musketeers' by Alexander Dumas, printed 1994, paperback, ISBN
0-812-53602-9.  Amazon says it's still in print at $4.99.  For the Little/
Brown versions, use ABE page <http://whipper.abebooks.com/abep/il.dll>
with author 'Dumas, Alexandre' and publisher 'Little, Brown'.
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