>>>>>About a year ago my mom was trying to find books by Jule Vern (not checking the spelling now) here and couple of our childhood favorites are very hard to find in US - we didn't find them.
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>>>>>I may search for them here in Milwaukee, though - may be I'll have better luck.
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>>>>Jules Verne's books should be widely available, though most of them are printed here in cut-down variations, ditto for Dumas.
>>>>Don't you like to try more serious book, like "Three Men in a Boat"?
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>>>Good idea, I may want to read it in English as well.
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>>It is pretty good too, though Russian translation was considered a work of unsurpassed quality. The author complained himself that it is too good, and, also, that they did not pay royalties.
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>I'm reading O'Henry now and so far I liked Russian translation even better in some cases.

"The Ransom of Red Chief" could not be written better than the movie.