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The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul

by Albert Robida · first published 1879

Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul ("The Very extraordinary journeys of Saturnin Farandoul") is a science-fiction novel by Albert Robida. A parody of Jules Verne's Voyages extraordinaires, it was published in over one hundred installments between 1879 and 1880. It was first translated in English by Brian Stableford as The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul. The novel proved to be very successful in Italy, where it was adapted into a 1913 Italian silent film, Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola, directed and interpreted by Marcel Fabre and into a RAI TV-series starring Mariano Rigillo and Daria Nicolodi in 1977.

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