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The Mysterious Island (Captain Nemo, #3)
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Serieses! > (Complete) Please clean up Book 3 of the Captain Nemo series as described

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message 1: by Lauren (last edited Aug 16, 2022 02:35PM) (new) - added it

Lauren | 2157 comments The existing Captain Nemo series (https://www.goodreads.com/series/1270...) contains three books, but each of these books have additionally been published in multiple volumes. These multi-volume sets, which currently exist elsewhere on Goodreads, need to be added as sub-series to the existing Captain Nemo series (I think? I'm not clear on how Goodreads handles this).

This post is requesting cleanup of only Book 3: “The Mysterious Volume”, which was split into a three-volume set and also a two-volume set.

The three-volume set

The three-volume set already exists on Goodreads as the series "L'isola misteriosa Series": https://www.goodreads.com/series/2880...

This series needs to be added a subseries to Captain Nemo (I think?), and should also be retitled to English (it's currently in Italian). My suggestions are to retitle the volumes as "Dropped from the Clouds," "Abandoned," and "The Secret of the Island," which you'll see below are existing titles for various English editions of these volumes and are also reflected in this combined edition (though the title needs some punctuation cleanup): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

This WorldCat entry also reflects that these three titles have historically been used to separate the novel: https://www.worldcat.org/title/myster...

Or here again on WorldCat are the three volumes with the titles I've suggested:
- Volume 1: https://www.worldcat.org/title/myster...
- Volume 2: https://www.worldcat.org/title/myster...
- Volume 3: https://www.worldcat.org/title/myster...

(If you choose not to retitle to English, please at least retitle them to the original French. Italian does not make sense.)

In addition to retitling, each volume has additional editions that exist as separate Goodreads entries and need to be combined with the editions already as part of the series. They are listed below.

Volume 1, “Dropped from the Clouds”:
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... (this edition needs title cleanup and the translator added)
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Volume 2, “Abandoned” or "The Abandoned":
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Volume 3, “The Secret of the Island”:
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

The two-volume set

There is an existing series that lists a two-volume set of Polish and Slovenian translations; this needs to be added as a subseries to the Captain Nemo series (I think?): https://www.goodreads.com/series/2203...

While strange, it does seem that these are indeed two-volume sets, and not books 1 and 2 of a 3-volume set. Therefore, these editions should not be combined with the volumes from the three-volume set.

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Thank you for your help!


message 2: by Lauren (last edited Sep 04, 2022 09:57PM) (new) - added it

Lauren | 2157 comments Can anyone please help with this?


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Lauren | 2157 comments Can someone please help with this?


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Lauren | 2157 comments Can anyone please help with this?


message 5: by Emma (last edited Oct 01, 2022 08:39PM) (new)

Emma | 397 comments It's still a work in progress, but I have cleaned up the books a little bit. The above mentioned editioned are combined where necessary, and I did some separation as well for the 2-volume vs 3-volume set.

Three-volume set
Two-volume set


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Lauren | 2157 comments Emma wrote: "It's still a work in progress, but I have cleaned up the books a little bit. The above mentioned editioned are combined where necessary, and I did some separation as well for the 2-volume vs 3-volu..."

Thank you so much! It looks like you got everything.


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