- Stanford Luce
Stanford L. Luce Jr (19 May 1923 in
Boston, Massachusetts — 26 March 2007 inCincinnati, Ohio ), son of Agnes Foote Luce and Stanford L. Luce Sr, is well known for his work onLouis-Ferdinand Céline and his English translations ofJules Verne books, especiallyThe Kip Brothers which he was the first to translate into English 105 years after the novel was written.Works
* "Jules Verne, moralist, writer, scientist" (1953), first English Ph.D. dissertation on
Jules Verne , Yale University [] [cite web|url=http://jv.gilead.org.il/forum/2007/04/0100.html |title=Death of Stan Luce |author=Jean-Michel Margot |quote=Many [years] ago, collecting bibliographic data about Jules Verne, I discovered [that Stanford Luce] was the author of the first PhD disseration in English about Jules Verne - 1953 - almost 20 years before the first French one (Vierne, 1974). |accessdate=1008-10-05 Note:Jean-Michel Margot is the president of the [http://www.najvs.org/ North American Jules Verne Society] and co-writer of the 2007 English translation of "The Kip Brothers ".]
* "A Glossary of Céline's Fiction, with English Translations" (1979), Quality Books, ISBN 978-0-891-96057-7
* "A Half-century of Céline: An Annotated Bibliography, 1932-1982" withWilliam K. Buckley (1983), Garland Pub., ISBN 978-0-824-09191-0
* "Céline and His Critics: Scandals and Paradox" (1986), Anma Libri, ISBN 978-0-915-83859-2
* "Celine's Pamphlets: An Overview" (199*), self-published, OCLC 82916731Translations
* Jules Verne, "
The Mighty Orinoco " ( _fr. Le Superbe Orénoque), withArthur B. Evans , Walter James Miller (2002), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-819-56511-2
* Jules Verne, "The Begum's Millions " ( _fr. Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum), with Arthur B. Evans andPeter Schulman (2005), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-819-56796-3
* Louis-Ferdinand Céline, "Conversations with Professor Y " ( _fr. Entretiens avec le professeur Y) (2006), Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 978-1-564-78449-0
* Jules Verne, "The Kip Brothers " ( _fr. Les Frères Kip), with Arthur B. Evans andJean-Michel Margot (2007), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-819-56704-8References
External Links
* [http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-KuHKwL07cqscDHc90GeF?p=5 Stanford L. Luce obituary]
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