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In January 2008, Inner Traditions/Bear & Company <http://www.InnerTraditions.com>, of Rochester, Vermont, published a wholly revised and expanded edition of Conversations with Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo (New Paradigm Books, 1998), by John Chambers

  
 Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World:
A Literary Genius's Hidden Life
Destiny Books. ISBN-13: 978-1-59477-182-8. ISBN-10: 1-59477-182. 0. $18.95. Paper. 384 pages. 6 x 9. Three illustrations.
 


"Things to do on Jersey when you're dead...This intriguing corner of the great novelist's life is exceptionally well documented in Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World, by John Chambers. Chambers, the first person to translate the séance transcripts into English (in an earlier edition of this book), does a fine job of evoking the atmosphere of the exiles' home away from home, their bitter homesickness and burgeoning fascination with the occult. His book is unusually well written for a study of this kind, laced with keen character sketches and absorbing sidelights on William Blake, James Merrill, and Kabbalah. He presents the facts without undue speculation and lets his readers draw their own conclusions....Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World is a superb contribution to literary history and to the study of the paranormal. I recommend it highly." - Michael Prescott, April 28, 2008.  For full text, click here: <http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2008/04/things-to-do-on.html>
 
 
 
5.0 out of 5 stars New age collections will find it an intriguing addition., April 3, 2008
By  Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
"John Chambers' Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World: A Literary Genius's Hidden Life is for collections strong in either New Age spirituality or parapsychology. It focuses on Victor Hugo's exile on the island of Jersey, where he and his friends escaped the reign of Napoleon III and where he transcribed hundreds of channeled conversations with various incarnate energies from beyond. New age collections will find it an intriguing addition." AMAZON.COM.

 
"...Hugo comes across as a complex man - as one would expect - egotistical and selfish, overbearing towards his family, yet sensitive and passionate on occasion. He was also capable of surprising insights, musing on time running backwards, or prefiguring David Bohm's holographic universe. While not convinced that the séances were "the greatest... adventure into the supernatural that has ever been recorded", I would agree that this is a fascinating story, and it is told in an engaging way." - Tom Ruffles, NTHPOSITION Online Magazine, March 2008. For full text, click here:  <http://www.nthposition.com/victorhugosconversations.php>


 ROCK STAR POWER PROPELS HUGO’S CONVERSATIONS  (June 17, 2008)  A mention of Victor Hugo’s Conversations with the Spirit World by rising 28-year-old Brit rock star Natasha Khan in an interview in the Manchester Guardian for Monday, June 16, sent sales of the book soaring on AMAZON.COM.UK (and probably in bookstores).  MORE...
 

For complete information, go to JOHN CHAMBERS page <http://www.newpara.com/johnchambers.htm>

 

 

 



UNESCO's current bibliography of translation  (Index Translationum)  lists some 1.7 million books from 130 countries in 820 languages.   Most of the translations are from English into a foreign language.  Topping the list of number of translations from the native language of a single author (including all titles by that author) is Agatha Christie, at  6,362. No. 2 is  Jules Verne, with 4,021 translations. Rounding out the top ten are: 3. Vladimir Lenin (3,497); 4. William Shakespeare (3,435); 5. Enid Blyton (3,433); 6. Barbara Cartland (3,315); 7. Danielle Steele (2,767); 8. Hans Christian Anderson (2,624); 9. The Brothers Grimm (Jacob, 2,382, & Wilhelm, 2,374); and 10. Mark Twain (2,022).
Would you like to join that list?!

Advertise foreign translation rights to your title in
New Age Books Abroad

 Every three months, our online catalogue, New Age Books Abroad, is sent by email, as a PDF file, to 5,000 foreign language publishers in 37 countries worldwide. Each issue contains display ads for on the average 30 New Age books from 15 publishers. The purpose of these ads is to sell translation rights to your books.

Most non-English language publishers are constantly on the prowl for U.S. and U.K. books for translation into their own languages. Usually, they find these books at publishers’ trade shows like the Frankfurt Book Fair. New Age Books Abroad is an alternative to these trade shows. We give non-English language publishers the opportunity to find out about your book simply by receiving our catalogue on their computer and reading your ad. The foreign publisher may ask you for a complimentary copy of your book. That publisher may decide to buy translation rights to your book. If this happens, all you have to do is sign a contract with the publisher, just as you would if you were selling your book to a local publisher. From then on, the foreign language publisher handles everything—translation, production, publication and distribution. You pay nothing. And you may receive a healthy advance against royalties (along with the royalties you will receive). New Paradigm Books’s Conversations with Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo sold translation rights to publishers in eight countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Latvia, Mexico, Brazil, Italy and Lithuania), largely because of New Age Books Abroad.

If you decide to advertise in New Age Books Abroad, we do everything for you. We go to AMAZON.COM and/or your website or other websites, pick up the cover image and all necessary editorial copy, and put your ad together. We send you a proof of your ad as a PDF file. We make changes in your ad until we have your complete approval.


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