Jules Verne Books In Order

Voyages Extraordinaires Books In Publication Order

  1. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863)
  2. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864)
  3. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
  4. From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
  5. Captain Grant’s Children (1867)
  6. In Search Of The Castaways (1867)
  7. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869)
  8. Round The Moon (1869)
  9. A Floating City (1871)
  10. The Adventures Of Three Englishmen And Three Russians In South Africa (1872)
  11. The Fur Country (1873)
  12. Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
  13. The Mysterious Island (1874)
  14. The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)
  15. Michael Strogoff or, The Courier of the Czar (1876)
  16. Off On A Comet (1877)
  17. Child of the Cavern (1877)
  18. Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen (1878)
  19. The Begum’s Fortune (1879)
  20. The Tribulations of a Chinaman (1879)
  21. The Steam House (1880)
  22. Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon (1881)
  23. Godfrey Morgan (1882)
  24. The Green Ray (1882)
  25. Keraban the Inflexible (1883)
  26. The Vanished Diamond: The Star of the South (1884)
  27. The Archipelago On Fire (1884)
  28. Mathias Sandorf (1885)
  29. The Lottery Ticket (1885)
  30. Robur the Conqueror (1886)
  31. North Against South (1887)
  32. The Flight To France (1887)
  33. Two Years’ Vacation (1888)
  34. Family Without A Name (1889)
  35. The Purchase of the North Pole: Topsy-Turvy (1889)
  36. Caesar Cascabel (1890)
  37. Mistress Branican (1891)
  38. The Castle of the Carpathians (1892)
  39. Claudius Bombarnac (1892)
  40. Foundling Mick (1893)
  41. Captain Antifer (1894)
  42. Propeller Island (1895)
  43. Facing The Flag (1896)
  44. Clovis Dardentor (1896)
  45. The Survivors of the Jonathan (1897)
  46. The Sphinx of the Ice / An Antarctic Mystery (1897)
  47. The Mighty Orinoco (1898)
  48. Will Of An Eccentric (1899)
  49. The Castaways of the Flag (1900)
  50. Village in the Treetops (1901)
  51. Sea Serpent (1901)
  52. The Kip Brothers (1902)
  53. Travel Scholarships (1903)
  54. Drama In Livonia (1904)
  55. Master of the World (1904)
  56. The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1905)
  57. Invasion of the Sea (1905)
  58. The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908)
  59. The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1910)

Children Of Captain Grant Books In Publication Order

  1. Mysterious Document (1867)
  2. On the Track (1867)
  3. Among the Cannibals (1867)

Barsac Mission Books In Publication Order

  1. Into the Niger Bend (1905)
  2. The City in the Sahara (1905)

Adventures of Captain Hatteras Books In Publication Order

  1. The Desert of Ice (1866)
  2. The English at the North Pole (1866)

Captain Nemo Books In Publication Order

  1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869)
  2. The Mysterious Island (1874)

Second Fatherland Books In Publication Order

  1. The Castaways of the Flag (1900)
  2. Their Island Home (1924)

Steam House Books In Publication Order

  1. Tigers and Traitors (1976)
  2. The Demon of Cawnpore (2008)

Two Years Holiday Books In Publication Order

  1. Adrift in the Pacific (1888)
  2. Second Year Ashore (1940)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863)
  2. Underground City (1877)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. A Fantasy of Dr. Ox (1872)
  2. In the Year 2889 (1889)
  3. Carpathian Castle (2018)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Doctor Ox And Other Stories (1874)
  2. Yesterday And Tomorrow (1910)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Exploration of the World (1879)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007)
  2. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)

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Jules Verne Books Overview

Five Weeks in a Balloon


Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an 1863 novel by Jules Verne.

It is the first Verne novel in which he perfected the ‘ingredients’ of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader’s interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets.

Public interest in fanciful tales of African exploration was at its height, and the book was an instant hit; it made Verne financially independent and got him a contract with Jules Hetzel’s publishing house, which put out several dozen more works of his for over forty years afterward.

Five Weeks in a Balloon is rare and hard to find on the bookshelves but it is still seeing print by smaller publishers like Twin Engine Productions HB, 1st World Library and Cosimo Classics.’ Quote from wikipedia. org

About the Author

‘Jules Gabriel Verne February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905 was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 1870, and Around the World in Eighty Days 1873. Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the ‘Father of Science Fiction’.’ Quote from wikipedia. org

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The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. One of Jules Verne’s lesser known stories. As with many of Verne’s imaginative creations, his description of Arctic geography was based on scientific knowledge at the time the novel was written 1866 but foreshadowed future discoveries.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Wildly popular, prolific and prophetic, Jules Verne leads his legions of delighted readers on journeys beneath the sea and beyond the stars. Here, the grandfather of modern science fiction takes us to the Earth’s core. The quest begins when irascible but dedicated mineralogy professor Otto Lidenbrock finds a centuries old parchment inside an even older book. His nephew Axel decodes it, and discovers instructions on how to get to the center of the Earth: Go down into the crater of Snaefells Yocul, an extinct Icelandic volcano. As they descend, the explorers also travel backward to the past, through layers of human history and geologic time, encountering prehistoric plants and animals and ultimately coming to understand the origins of humanity itself. Though brim*ming with exciting exploits, this journey is also metaphorical a spiritual and psychological trip to the center of the human soul. While many of Verne s scientific speculations have been proven, it is this author s remarkable ability to fashion a rousing tale full of compelling characters, extraordinary adventures, and provocative ideas that ensures he will be read for years to come. New original illustrations by Rachel Perkins. Ursula K. Heise is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She has published a book, Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism 1997, and numerous articles on contemporary American and European literature in its relation to science, ecology and new media.

From the Earth to the Moon


From the Earth to the Moon French: De la Terre a la Lune is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well to do members of a post American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky facing columbiad and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing.

The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and, considering the total lack of any data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are surprisingly close to reality. However, his scenario turned out to be impractical for safe manned space travel since a much longer muzzle would have been required to reach escape velocity while limiting acceleration to survivable limits for the passengers.

The story bears similarities to the real life Apollo program:

Verne’s cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia.
The spacecraft crew consisted of three persons in each case.
The physical dimensions of the projectile are very close to the dimensions of the Apollo CSM.
Verne’s voyage blasted off from Florida, as did all Apollo missions. This is possibly due to Verne realising, as NASA later did, that objects launch into space most easily if they are launched from the earth’s equator, and Florida is the nearest part of the American mainland.

The character of ‘Michel Ardan’ in the novel was inspired by Nadar.’ Quote from wikipedia. org

About the Author

‘Jules Gabriel Verne February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905 was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 1870, and

Captain Grant’s Children

A message in a bottle relays an urgent plea from the long missing Captain Grant. His ship, the Britannia, has sunk. He is alive but is being held hostage. Captain Grant’s Children, Mary and Robert, along with their friend and benefactor Lord Glenervan launch a rescue expedition. But where do they begin their search? The original SOS message written in three languages is partially destroyed by sea water. The remaining fragments can be interpreted several ways. Only one clue is certain, Captain Grant is somewhere along the 37th parallel. Racing against time, risking their lives, the brave adventurers are determined to find and save the shipwrecked captain.

In Search Of The Castaways

In Search Of The Castaways French: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, lit. The Children of Captain Grant is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867 1868. The original edition, by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Edouard Riou. In 1876 it was republished by George Routledge & Sons as a three volume set titled ‘A Voyage Round The World’. The three volumes were subtitled ‘South America’, ‘Australia’, and ‘New Zealand’. The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, through an announcement in a newspaper. Moved by the children’s condition, Lord and Lady Glenarvan decide to launch a rescue expedition. The main difficulty is that the coordinates of the wreckage are mostly erased, and only the latitude 37 degrees is known; thus, the expedition would have to circum navigate the 37th parallel. Remaining clues consist of a few words in three languages. They are re interpreted several times throughout the novel to make various destinations seem likely. Quote from wikipedia. orgAbout the AuthorJules Gabriel Verne February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905 was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 1870, and Around the World in Eighty Days 1873. Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Tran

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works.
Widely regarded as the father of modern science fiction, Jules Verne wrote more than seventy books and created hundreds of memorable characters. His most popular novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is not only a brilliant piece of scientific prophecy, but also a thrilling story with superb, subtle characterizations.

The year is 1866 and the Pacific Ocean is being terrorized by a deadly sea monster. The U.S. government dispatches marine-life specialist Pierre Aronnax to investigate aboard the warship Abraham Lincoln. When the ship is sunk by the mysterious creature, he and two other survivors discover that the monster is in fact a marvelous submarine-the Nautilus-commanded by the brilliant but bitter Captain Nemo. Nemo refuses to let his guests return to land, but instead taking them on a series of fantastic adventures in which they encounter underwater forests, giant clams, monster storms, huge squid, treacherous polar ice and-most spectacular of all-the magnificent lost city of Atlantis!

Victoria Blake is a freelance writer. She has worked at the Paris Review and contributed to the Boulder Daily Camera, small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.

Round The Moon

In this sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, Barbicane, Ardan, and Nicholl have decided to take a trip aRound The Moon. But first they have to get to the moon from Earth. Will their trip succeed as they attempt to dodge asteroids and realize that the scientists on Earth have miscalculated their trajectory towards the moon?

A Floating City

A Floating City, published in 1871, enjoyed a popularity almost equal to that of Round the World in Eighty Days. The ‘Floating City’ was the direct result of the trip which the author actually made to America in 1867, on the largest iron ship ever built. He gives us a faithful picture of the natural and usual incidents of an ocean voyage of those days, enlivening these by introducing a romance aboard ship. The pictures of the ‘Great Eastern,’ are of course exaggerated, not so much in words themselves as in the impressions they convey. But the pictures of New York and of Niagara are the genuine imprint made upon the great writer by his visit.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Chapter I IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old. Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on ‘Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting rooms of the ‘City’; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln’s Inn, or Gray’s Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen’s Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan’s Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects. Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform, and that was all. The way in which he got admission to this exclusive club was simple enough. He was recommended by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information. He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled. Had he travelled? It was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it. He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions. He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes. and so much more

The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Ferat. The novel is a sequel to Verne’s famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death ravage the city, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape in a rather unusual way by hijacking a balloon. The five are Cyrus Smith, a railroad engineer in the Union army, his African American manservant Neb short for Nebuchadnezzar, who Verne repeatedly states is not a slave but instead a loyal butler, the sailor Bonadventure Pencroff who is referred to only by his surname, but his ‘christian name’ is given to their boat and his protege Herbert or Harbert, depending on the translation Brown a young boy whom Pencroff raises as his own after the death of his father, Pencroff’s former captain, and the journalist Gideon Spilett. The company is completed by Cyrus’ dog ‘Top’.’ Quote from wikipedia. orgAbout the Author ‘Jules Gabriel Verne February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905 was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 1870, and Around the World in Eighty Days 1873. Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Some

The Survivors of the Chancellor

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A great sheet of water, supplied continuously by the pumps, was rolling in tiny wavelets, and escaping now to starboard, now to larboard through the scupper holes. After watching the men for a while as they ran about barefooted, I could not resist the desire to join them, so taking off my shoes and stockings, I proceeded to dabble in the flowing water. Great was my amazement to find the deck perfectly hot to my feet! Curtis heard my exclamation of surprise, and before I could put my thoughts into words, said, ‘ Yes! there is fire on board !’ ‘YE5! THERE IS FIRE ON BOARD.’ Pan 34. ‘THE MEN ON WATCH NOTICED A SLIOHT SMOKE ISSUING FROM THE URGE HATCHWAY.’ Pf 35 CHAPTER IX. October igt/i. Everything, then, is clear. The uneasiness of the crew, their frequent conferences, Owen’s mysterious words, the constant scourings of the deck and the oppressive heat of the cabins which had been noticed even by my fellow passengers, all are explained. After his grave communication, Curtis remained silent. I shivered with a thrill of horror; a calamity the most terrible that can befall a voyager stared me in the face, and it was some seconds before I could recover sufficient composure to inquire when the fire was first discovered. ‘ Six days ago,’ replied the mate. ‘ Six days ago!’ I exclaimed; ‘why, then, it was that night.’ ‘ Yes,’ he said, interrupting me; ‘ it was the night you heard the disturbance upon deck. The men on watch noticed a slight smoke issuing from the large hatchway and immediately called Captain Huntly and myself. Wefound beyond all doubt, that the cargo was on fire, and what was worse, that there was no possibility of getting at the seat of the combustion. What could we do ? Why ; we took the only precaution that was practicable under the ci…

Off On A Comet

Off On A Comet French: Hector Servadac is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two year long journey on the comet. They form a mini society and coping with the hostile environment of the comet mostly the cold. The size of the ‘comet’ is about 2300 kilometers in diameter far larger than any comet or asteroid that actually exists. Quote from wikipedia. orgAbout the AuthorJules Gabriel Verne February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905 was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 1870, and Around the World in Eighty Days 1873. Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the ‘Father of Science Fiction’. Quote from wikipedia. orgAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. http://www. forgottenbooks. org

The Begum’s Fortune

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Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon

Many regard Jules Verne 1828 1905 as the father of modern science fiction. After running away to sea at the age of 11, and getting sent home in disgrace, Verne took up writing. His early works, mostly plays and librettos, met with little success. His first novel, ‘Five Weeks in a Balloon,’ based on extensive readings on science and geography, led him to a career writing adventure stories infused with meticulously accurate scientific elements. Novels such as ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth,’ ‘From the Earth to the Moon,’ ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,’ and many others followed, earning him a place as one of the most popular authors of all time, read by millions thorughout the world. ‘Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon‘ sometimes split into two volumes, ‘The Giant Raft’ and ‘The Cryptogram’ tells of a blackmail victim forced on trip down the Amazon to clear his good name. Filled with detailed descriptions of strange lands, animals, plants, and people, it remains a rare volume of Verne’s adventure stories.

Godfrey Morgan

Kolderup, the millionaire, has indulged himself in every other whim available to him, at home in America but now he has gone the limit: for he has purchased an entire island, a veritable paradise in the Pacific and with this outrageous purchase he has had the special pleasure of having outbid a certain enemy of his.

As it happens, Kolderup’s nephew, Godfrey, has a craze for traveling and he is also the most avid reader of castaway stories…

And as it further happens, the father of science fiction, Jules Verne, was an avid writer of castaway stories. While the greatest of them is The Mysterious Island, the most playful and diverting may be this light hearted fantasy of staged shipwrecks, cold hearted competition, and elaborate plans for ruin and revenge featuring dangerous, uncaged wild beasts. Originally published in 1882 as L’Ecole des Robinsons, the novel Godfrey Morgan will come as a delightful surprise to those only acquainted with Verne’s imaginary journeys deep into the Earth, or into outer space.

The Green Ray

When the Morning Post writes about the legendary Green Ray’s elevating effects on the mind and soul, Helena Campbell vows to experience it for herself, postponing the wedding being forced upon her against her will. Together with her uncles, Sam and Sib Melville, she sets off on what becomes a near-epic quest. Joining them in the search are two would-be suitors for Helena, one an artist, the other an amateur scientist. Together, they will voyage to a distant shore–and beyond–braving hurricanes, testing their patience and resolve, and ultimately finding their own true selves. A Wildside Fiction Classic, long unavailable in any form.

Keraban the Inflexible

Keraban is determined not to pay the tax required to cross the Bosphorus by boat, so he journeys by land around the Black Sea.

There is a fundamental mistake in dividing Verne’s works into science fiction vs. non science fiction in Verne’s work there is an all encompassing vision of science, progress, society and political struggles, which it is not convenient to compartmentalize.

Mathias Sandorf

Trieste, 1867. Two petty criminals, Sarcany and Zirone, intercept a carrier pigeon. They find a ciphered message attached to its leg and uncover a plot to liberate Hungary from Austro Hungarian rule. The two meet with Silas Toronthal, a corrupt banker, and form a plan to deliver the conspirators to the police in exchange for a rich reward. The three conspirators, Count Sandorf, Stephen Bathory and Ladislas Zathmar are arrested and sentenced to death. Fifteen years later, the renowned physician Dr. Antekirtt sets out to avenge those three brave men. Enlisting the aid of two French acrobats, Pescade and Matifou, he scours the Mediterranean in search of those who planned the betrayal. Rich beyond all imagination, wielding great power and master of an island fortress filled with advanced weaponry, Dr. Antekirtt will not rest until justice is done.

The Lottery Ticket

Hulda Hansen awaits the return of her betrothed, Ole Kamp, who promised her great fortune after his voyage aboard the fishing boat, Viking. When the Viking fails to return and is feared lost, a bottle is found with a note for Hulda and a lottery ticket, numbered 9672. News of the tragedy spreads, along with Hulda’s possible riches from The Lottery Ticket, whose drawing day grows near.

Robur the Conqueror

THE CLIPPER OF THE CLOUDS. CHAPTER I. ~lYSTERIOUS SOU:NDS. ‘ BANG! Bang! U The pistol-shots were almost simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. N either of the adversaries ,vas hit. Who were these two gentlemen? Ve do not know, although this would be an excellent opportunity to hand down their names to posterity. All we can say is that. the elder was an Englishman and the younger an American, and both of them were old enough to know better. So far as recording in what locality the inoffensive ruminant had just tasted her last tuft of herbage, nothing can be easier. It was on the left bank of the Niagara, not far from the suspension bridge which joins the American to . tl1e Canadian bank three miles from the falls. B

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; ~; CHAPTER I; PAGE; ~1 ysterious sounds; CHAPTER II; Agreement impossible I”; CHAPTER III; A visitor is announced 20; CHAPTER IV; In which a new character appe;trs 27; CHAPTER V; Another disappearance 39; CHAPTER VI; The president ::Ind secretary suspend hostilities 48; CHAPTER VII; On board the Albatross 60; CHAPTER YIII; The balloonists refuse to be convinced 71; CHAPTER IX; Across the prairie 83; CHAPTER X; Vestward-but whither? 90; CHAPTER XI; The wide Pacific 98; 388; Contellts; CHAPTER XII; PAGl!:; Through the Himalayas 109; CHAPTER XIII; Over the Caspian 116; CHAPTER XIV; The aeronef at full speed 13 t; CHAPTER XV; A skirmish in Dahomey 141; CHAPTER XVI; ?; Over the Atlantic 157; CHAPTER XVII; The shipwrecked crew 169; CHAPTER XVIII; Over the vokano J76; CHAPTER XIX ; -nchored at last IS7; CHAPTER XX; The wreck of the Albatross 200; CHAPTER XXI; The Institute again 208; CHAPTER XXII; ThE: Goahead is launched 220; CHAPTER XXIII; Tl:e grand co

North Against South

Texar is decidedly an ugly customer. He does not really care who wins in the American Civil War, but hearing the man he hates is a Northerner, poses as a Southerner and does his best to ruin the other man. The secret of his dexterity in getting out of tight corners is not revealed until almost the end. The story is full of thrills.

Family Without A Name

Two sons of an infamous French Canadian traitor, fight for the revolution during the 1837 38 Revolt of the ‘Patriots’ in an effort to make up for their father’s crime. Sometimes unfaithful to historical facts in this major historical novel, Verne, a liberal ideologist, considers with favor the major national uprisings of the 19th century, although he also dreams of a Qu bec freely associated with the great American Republic. There is a fundamental mistake in dividing Verne’s works into science fiction vs. non science fiction in Verne’s work there is an all encompassing vision of science, progress, society and political struggles, which it is not convenient to compartmentalize.

The Purchase of the North Pole: Topsy-Turvy

The Gun Club of Baltimore is surely the most famous Gun Club in the world for did not this madly ambitious group launch a capsule from the Earth’s surface up through the atmosphere, and then beyond, toward the Moon? Now Barbicane and Nicholl’s famous club is engaged in an absurdly massive project once again, a project of literally Earth shaking proportions. Barbicane has purchased the northern polar ice cap for its thick veins of coal. And the plan is no less than to tip the Earth on its axis, to bring a temperate climate around the globe…
and enable the mining of those valuable deposits! Written two decades after From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne’s visionary novel Sans Dessus Dessous, known in English as Topsy Turvy, or The Purchase of the North Pole, saw first publication in 1889.

Caesar Cascabel

Like most of M. Jules Verne’s books, it is the story of a journey. Some acrobats wish to travel from California to their native France, and having no money they determine to go in their caravan northward to Bering’s Straits, crossing on the ice, and make their way through Siberia into Europe. Jules Verne’s travelers are generally successful: in spite of robbers, icebergs, and the Russian police; the bold Frenchmen triumphantly reach their goal.

While a member of the Amiens town council, Verne supervised the finances of the local theatre. During this period he urged the establishment of a permanent circus. Verne’s contact with the circus performers formed the basis for Caesar Cascabel in which a mystery is solved by means of ventriloquism.

Mistress Branican

Jules Verne 1828 1905 est un crivain fran ais, dont une grande partie de l’oeuvre est consacr e des romans d’aventures et de science fiction appel’s du temps de Jules Verne romans d’anticipation comme Le Voyage au Centre de la Terre 1864 et Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers 1869. Il fait ses tudes de rh torique et de philosophie au Lyc e de Nantes, actuel Lyc e Cl menceau puis des tudes de droit apr s le baccalaur at. Il commence crire, des po mes, une trag die en vers. Il va terminer son droit Paris en novembre 1848, bien plus int ress par le th tre. Il y fait la connaissance d’Alexandre Dumas, qui accepte de monter sa pi ce Les Pailles Rompues, en 1850, dans son Th tre Historique, o elle y est jou e douze fois. Jules Verne publie ses premi res nouvelles dans la revue Le Mus e des Familles: Les Premiers Navires de la Marine Mexicaine et Un Drame dans les Airs en 1851. En 1852, Il est engag comme secr taire au Th tre Lyrique. Il publie Ma tre Zacharius 1854, Un Hivernage dans les Glaces 1855 et Martin Paz 1874.

The Castle of the Carpathians

The descriptions of the quaint villagers of Werst, their costumes, manner of living, and belief in the supernatural world would in themselves prove an interesting narrative, but when coupled with the exciting adventures of Nic Deck, the two Counts, the cowardly Doctor, and the beautiful La Stilla, the story is undoubtedly one of the most enchanting ever offered. This mysterious tale takes place in the area which in just a few years would become known as Dracula’s homeland. Jules Verne has the knack of it. He knows how to make the scientifically romantic story. You might not know what a ‘nyctalop’ was, but if you saw one flapping his wings around the dark fortress in the Carpathians, you would run for it, as did Nic Deck.. Orfanik is head conjurer, and in his trial he explains how he brought into play for a wicked purpose a variety of ingenious inventions.

Claudius Bombarnac

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Captain Antifer

Captain Antifer‘s father had befriended an Egyptian prisoner at Jaff Jaffa , Kamylk Pasha, and many years after he received a mysterious document naming latitude 24 degrees 59 minutes north, and saying that the longitude would follow later. It never did; but Antifer succeeded in discovering it, and had a series of most exciting adventures in searching for the wealth which was to be found on the spot indicated.

Propeller Island

A French string quartet traveling from San Francisco to their next engagement in San Diego, is diverted to Standard Island. Standard Island is an immense man made island designed to travel the waters of the Pacific Ocean. The wealth of residents of the island can only be measured in millions. The quartet is hired to play a number of concerts for the residents during their tour of the islands Sandwich, Cook, Society, etc. of the South Pacific. The island seems an idyllic paradise; however, it is an island divided in two. The left half’s population is led by Jem Tankerdon and is known as the Larboardites. The right half’s population is led by Nat Coverley and is known as the Starboardites. Despite the obstacles encountered on their journey, the two parties have a disagreement that threatens the future of the island itself.

Facing The Flag

Jules Gabriel Verne 1828-1905 was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Centre of the Earth 1864, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 1870, and Around the World in Eighty Days 1873. Verne wrote about space, air and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the ‘Father of Science Fiction’. Amongst his other works are From the Earth to the Moon 1867, Five Weeks in a Balloon 1869, The Fur Country; or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude 1873, The Blockade Runners 1874, The Field of Ice 1875, The Mysterious Island 1875, Facing The Flag 1879, and An Antarctic Mystery 1899.

The Mighty Orinoco

Jules Verne 1828 1905 was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author’s famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man’s search for his father along the then uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific adventure tale: exploration and discovery, humor and drama, dastardly villains and intrepid heroes, and a host of near fatal encounters with crocodiles, jungle fever, Indians and outlaws all set in a wonderfully exotic locale. The Mighty Orinoco also includes a unique twist that will appeal to feminists readers will need to discover it for themselves. This Wesleyan edition features notes, and a critical introduction by renowned Verne scholar Walter James Miller, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.

CONTRIBUTORS: Walter James Miller, Stanford Luce, Arthur B. Evans.

The Kip Brothers

Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain’s murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exciting exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. This Wesleyan edition brings together the first English translation with one of the first detailed critical analyses of the novel, and features all the illustrations from the original 1902 publication.

Master of the World

If I speak of myself in this story, it is because I have been deeply involved in its startling events, events doubtless among the most extraordinary which this twentieth century will witness. Sometimes I even ask myself if all this has really happened, if its pictures dwell in truth in my memory, and not merely in my imagination. In my position as head inspector in the federal police department at Washington, urged on moreover by the desire, which has always been very strong in me, to investigate and understand everything which is mysterious, I naturally became much interested in these remarkable occurrences. And as I have been employed by the government in various important affairs and secret missions since I was a mere lad, it also happened very naturally that the head of my department placed In my charge this astonishing investigation, wherein I found myself wrestling with so many impenetrable mysteries.

The Lighthouse at the End of the World

At the extreme tip of South America, Staten Island has piercing Antarctic winds, lonely coasts assaulted by breakers, and sailors lost as their vessels smash on the dark rocks. Now that civilization dares to rule here, a lighthouse penetrates the last and wildest place of all. But Vasquez, the guardian of the sacred light, has not reckoned with the vicious, desperate Kongre gang, who murder his two friends and force him out into the wilderness. Alone, without resources, can he foil their cruel plans? A gripping tale of passion and perseverance, Verne’s testament novel paints a compelling picture of intrigue and heroism, schemes and calamities. The master storyteller returns here to the theme of civilization against its two oldest enemies: pitiless nature and men’s savagery. 20070916

Invasion of the Sea

Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series ‘Voyages Extraordinaires.’ A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world’s imperial powers. Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals the Suez and the Panama did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns environmental, cultural, and political. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.

The Chase of the Golden Meteor

The announcement that a solid gold asteroid has fallen to earth creates a worldwide sensation. The discovery of this falling golden meteor and the race to find it form the core of this exciting tale from the grandfather of science fiction, Jules Verne. 23 illustrations.

The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz

Widely rumored to exist, then circulated in a corrupt form, Jules Verne’s final and arguably most daring and hauntingly beautiful novel&151;his own &147;invisible man’&151;appears here for the first time in a faithful translation. Readers of English can rediscover the pleasures of Verne’s storytelling in its original splendor and enjoy a virtually unknown gem of action, adventure, and style from a master of French literature.

Wilhelm Storitz, the son of a famous Prussian scientist and possessor of his father’s secrets&151;even, perhaps, a formula that confers invisibility, vows revenge on the family that has denied him the love of his life, Myra Roderich. Wilhelm’s actions on the eve of Myra’s wedding unfold in a surprising and sinister way, leading to an ending that will astonish the reader. Like many works left unpublished when Jules Verne died, The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz was prepared and edited by his son, Michel. After a century of obscurity, this unique work in Verne’s oeuvre is finally in the hands of readers, in a fine, authentic translation.
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On the Track

The contents of a shark’s stomach contain a bottle that holds notes written in three different languages. Much of the notes are indecipherable; however, together they may reveal the location of the whereabouts of Captain Harry Grant, whose ship the Britannia was lost over two years ago. While the latitude of Grant is known from the note, the longitude is a mystery. Clues from the notes point to the South American coast as the probable location of the shipwreck. Lord Glenarvan makes it his quest to find Grant; together with his wife, Harry Grant’s children Mary and Robert and the crew of his yacht the Duncan they set off for South America. An unexpected passenger in the form of French geographer Jacques Paganel joins the search. The search takes them where the 37th degree of south latitude crosses the South American continent. Crossing the continent from west to east, they travel through Chile and Argentina Patagonia, with no luck, when Paganel realizes that part of the clue must actually mean Australia. So they go to where the 37th degree begins crossing Australia, there by chance they meet a man who claims his name is Thomas Ayrton, former quartermaster of the Britannia. Ayrton takes them across the Australian continent, with plans of his own to seize control of the Duncan. Ayrton’s treachery makes the party believe that he has gained control of the Duncan. Dejected that their search of Australia did not turn up Captain Grant, the adventurers travel to New Zealand via a ship that barely seems sea worthy. The vessel wrecks along the New Zealand coast. The party’s attempt to get to Auckland gets them captured by the Maoris, a tribe of cannibals at war with the English and disinterested in keeping the prisoners alive.

Among the Cannibals

The contents of a shark’s stomach contains a bottle that holds notes written in three different languages. Much of the notes are indecipherable; however, together they may reveal the location of the whereabouts of Captain Harry Grant, whose ship the Britannia was lost over two years ago. While the latitude of Grant is known from the note, the longitude is a mystery. Clues from the notes point to the South American coast as the probable location of the shipwreck. Lord Glenarvan makes it his quest to find Grant; together with his wife, Harry Grant’s children Mary and Robert and the crew of his yacht the Duncan they set off on the chase. An unexpected passenger in the form of French geographer Jacques Paganel joins the search. The search takes them where the 37th degree of south latitude crosses the South American continent. Crossing the continent from west to east, they travel through Chile and Argentina Patagonia, with no luck, when Paganel realizes that part of the clue must actually mean Australia. So they go to where the 37th degree begins crossing Australia, there by chance they meet a man who claims his name is Thomas Ayrton, former quartermaster of the Britannia. Ayrton takes them across the Australian continent, with plans of his own to seize control of the Duncan. Ayrton’s treachery makes the party believe that he has gained control of the Duncan. Dejected that their search of Australia did not turn up Captain Grant, the adventurers travel to New Zealand via a ship that barely seems sea worthy. The vessel wrecks along the New Zealand coast. The party’s attempt to get to Auckland gets them captured by the Maoris, a tribe of cannibals at war with the English and disinterested in keeping the prisoners alive

The City in the Sahara

Part Two of the Barsac Mission

The Desert of Ice

In this book Verne struck again the bolder note of imagination and creation. Here the daring explorers are represented as actually attaining the pole; and the bold inventions of what they saw and did, rising to the startling climax of the volcano and the madman’s climb, are led up to through such a well managed, well constructed and convincing story, that many critics have selected this in its turn as the most powerful of Verne s works. It is notable that, with the exception of the open sea and the volcano, the world which our author here penetrates in imagination, coincides closely with that which Peary has discovered to exist in reality. Here are the same barren lands, the same weary sledge journey, the same locations of land and sea, the ‘red snow,’ the open leads in the ice. Verne s predictions, wild as they sometimes seem, were all so carefully studied that they shoot most close to truth.

The English at the North Pole

To a thinker, a dreamer, or a philosopher, nothing is more affecting than the departure of a ship for at the sight, the imagination runs loose and plays round the sails it sees her struggles with the sea and the wind in the adventurous journey, which does not always end in port…
This, however, was the most unusual ship the Forward, the subject of Liverpool gossip for three long months. The brig was constructed with a solidity to withstand all tests of the sea, and to hold fast against enormous pressure with ribs built of teak and plated with iron. Why was the hull not built of sheet iron, as was the practice with other steamboats? As the sailors who asked this were told, the mysterious engineer who ordered the Forward had his own, personal reasons…
reasons he had yet to share with the world. Her steel prow, cast in Newcastle, shined in the sun. A sixteen pounder cannon, mounted on a pivot to turn any direction whatsoever, loomed over the forecastle. Yet neither cannon nor stern, steel clad though they were, made it look warlike. It was a mystery ship with a mysterious purpose. Remarkable for its attention to authentic detail, The English at the North Pole was first published in the French Magazine of Education and Recreation in 1864, and is the first volume of a story continued in Le D sert de Glace, or The Field of Ice. The two novels together comprise The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works.
Widely regarded as the father of modern science fiction, Jules Verne wrote more than seventy books and created hundreds of memorable characters. His most popular novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is not only a brilliant piece of scientific prophecy, but also a thrilling story with superb, subtle characterizations.

The year is 1866 and the Pacific Ocean is being terrorized by a deadly sea monster. The U.S. government dispatches marine-life specialist Pierre Aronnax to investigate aboard the warship Abraham Lincoln. When the ship is sunk by the mysterious creature, he and two other survivors discover that the monster is in fact a marvelous submarine-the Nautilus-commanded by the brilliant but bitter Captain Nemo. Nemo refuses to let his guests return to land, but instead taking them on a series of fantastic adventures in which they encounter underwater forests, giant clams, monster storms, huge squid, treacherous polar ice and-most spectacular of all-the magnificent lost city of Atlantis!

Victoria Blake is a freelance writer. She has worked at the Paris Review and contributed to the Boulder Daily Camera, small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.

The Castaways of the Flag

This story is a sequel to ‘Their Island Home,’ which takes up the adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson at the place where the author of the original narrative dropped them. ‘The Swiss Family Robinson’ seems to have affected Jules Verne’s literary bent as no other book ever did. It gave him that liking for the lonely island life as the basis of a yarn which is conspicuous in much of his work. In a preface to the story of which this is really a part he tells how firmly New Switzerland established itself in the fabric of his thoughts, till it became for him a real island inhabited by real people. At last he was compelled to write about it, and ‘Their Island Home’ and ‘The Castaways of the Flag‘ are the result. The youth of Europe many generations of it owes a big debt to the old romancer who worked for so many years in his turret room at Amiens to entertain it. From that room, with its many bookshelves, came volume after volume of adventure, mostly with a big ad mixture of the scientific. Verne was not one of those who pile hairbreadth escapes one upon another till they become incredible. There are plenty of things happening in his books, but they are the sort of things that would happen, given the circumstances, and he explains why and how they chanced in the most convincing manner possible. In these days of submarines and aeroplanes it is interesting to read again the wonderful Frenchman’s forecast of them in such books as ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ and ‘The Clipper of the Clouds.’ ‘Round the World in Eighty Days’ the task would be an easy one now, but at the time when he wrote it required great ingenuity to make it seem possible; and the end of that book is one of the most ingenious things in fiction, though it has for justification a simple geographical fact. Phileas Fogg was a day late, as he believed. He had apparently lost his wager. But, having gone round the world in the right direction, he had gained a day, and just won. If he had gone the other way he would have been two days late, for a day would have been lost to him cut right out of the calendar. With the restoration of Fritz Zermatt and his wife Jenny, his brother Frank and the other Castaways of the Flag to their anxious and sorely tried relatives in New Switzerland, the story of ‘The Swiss Family Robinson’ is brought to its proper end. Thereafter, the interest of their domestic life is merged in that of the growth of a young colony. Romance is merged in history and the romancer’s work is finished. Jules Verne has here set the coping stone on the structure begun by Rudolph Wyss, and in ‘The Swiss Family Robinson,’ ‘Their Island Home’ and ‘The Castaways of the Flag‘ we have, not a story and two sequels, but a complete trilogy which judges who survey it must pronounce very good. A word may be permitted about this English version. Jules Verne is a master of pure narrative. His style is singularly limpid and his language is so simple that people with a very limited knowledge of French can read his stories in the original and miss very little of their substance. But to be able to read a book in one language and to translate it into another are very different things. The very simplicity of Jules Verne’s French presents difficulties to one who would translate it into English. What the French call ‘idiotismes’ abound in all Verne’s writing, and there are few French authors to whose books it is so difficult to impart a really English air in English dress. Whatever the imperfections of these translations may be they cannot, however, mar very greatly the pleasure the stories themselves give to every reader.

Tigers and Traitors

A thrilling story of a strange caravan that penetrates the Terai, the immense forest that stretches across India at the foot of the mighty Himalayas. In this forest wild men, and wilder beasts, are encountered. Thi book thrills from the first page to the last.

The Demon of Cawnpore

An adventure set in India in the period following the Mutiny, when the country seethed with discontent. Pursued by the authorities, one rebel plots to revenge himself against the British and make himself ruler of the land. Part II of ‘The Steam House.’

Adrift in the Pacific

A group of boys find themselves adrift at sea, and after a terrible storm they are cast upon a deserted island, where they must learn to get along together to survive.

Paris in the Twentieth Century

THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY

In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great grandson found the handwritten, never before published manuscript in a safe. That manuscript was Paris in the Twentieth Century, an astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction writers of our time…

Underground City

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A Fantasy of Dr. Ox

Something very strange is in the air of the harmonious town of Quiquendone. Unknown to its inhabitants, the mad genius Dr. Ox has unleashed a veil of oxyhydric gas over the town his own living laboratory in an attempt to spice things up. In his amusing portrait of an idyllic community suddenly overtaken by an appetite for aggression, Jules Verne points to the ease with which any society and the modern resonance is unmissable can be manipulated by its masters into hatred and war. Jules Verne was the originator of modern science fiction; among his works are Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

In the Year 2889

In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules Verne’s son, Michel Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the article echo Jules Verne’s ideas.

Doctor Ox And Other Stories

A collection of short stories by Jules Verne. Dr. Ox Doctor Ox and his assistant Ygene come to the small quiet community of Quiquendone located in Flanders. He promises to light this town with a network of oxyhydric gas pipes. During the construction of this network, the quiet community becomes quite excitable, to the point where they are ready to go to war against a neighboring community. But what is the cause of this change in the nature of the good people of Quiquendone? Perhaps it is something in the air, but only Doctor Ox and his assistant Ygene know for sure. Master Zacharius: The Clockmaker Who Lost His Soul As a clockmaker in Geneva, Switzerland begins dying, all of the time pieces that he has crafted begin failing as though a part of his soul became a part of each of them. Soon only one of his time pieces remains functional, and for the clockmaker to gain possession of it, he must give his daughter’s hand in marriage to a man who works for the devil himself. This was originally written in 1854. A Drama in the Air In Germany a man plans to take some passengers on a ride in his balloon. When they don’t show, another man quickly jumps into the basket as the balloon begins its ascent. The unexpected passenger only intent in his ride it for the pilot to take the balloon as high as it will go. This was originally written in 1851. A Winter Amid the Ice When his son Louis and members of the crew of the ship Jeune Hardie, do not return from sea, Jean Cornbutte decides to refit the ship and go north to find them. Accompanying him on this trip is his son’s fianc e, Marie, and the man who would be his son’s rival for her affections, the ship’s first officer, Andr Vasling. When the missing party is found in the extreme north, the only thing left to do is survive the bitter cold and rivalry. This was originally written in 1855. The 40th Ascension of Mount Blanc Jules’ brother Paul writes about his climb up Mont Blanc.

Yesterday And Tomorrow

A collection of short stories by Jules Verne translated for this volume. Stories included are 1. The Eternal Adam 2. The Fate of Jean Morenas 3. An Ideal City 4. Ten Hours Hunting 5. Frritt Flacc 6. Gil Braltar 7. In the Twentieth Century The Day of an American Journalist in 2889 8. Mr. Ray Sharp and Miss Me Flat

The Exploration of the World

In this chief of his works, Jules Verne has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventures of which we have any written record to give the history, ‘from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley,’ of those voyages of exploration and discovery which are among the most thrilling episodes in the history of human enterprise. In short, Jules Verne has chosen for his most important book the only subject which he could make surpass his own vivid and realistic stories in absorbing interest; to the treatment of such material he brings all the dash and vivid picturesqueness of his own creations, and it may be imagined that he makes a book worth reading.

The plan of the work is so valuable that it is a matter for surprise that such a history has never been undertaken before. To trace connectedly the progress of discovery as Jules Verne does, from the time when the world was a very small circle indeed, surrounded by the densest of outer darkness, and when the Carthagenian navigators ventured timidly out of the Mediterranean is to gain an altogether new idea of the daring and skill that has been expended in this one direction. It is a worthy subject for the most ambitious work of such a writer.

Verne obtained all information for the book from the original documents.

The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

A beautiful literary anthology published to commemorate the International Polar Year and remind us what we re in danger of losing.

The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we ve known they existed. Countless explorers, including such legends as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Falcon Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. Now, for the first time in human history, we are in legitimate danger of seeing polar ice dramatically shrink, break apart, or even disappear. The Ends of the Earth, a collection of the very best writing on the Arctic and Antarctic, will simultaneously commemorate four centuries of exploring and scientific study, and make the call for preservation.
Stocked with first person narratives, cultural histories, nature and science writing, and fiction, this book is a compendium of the greats of their fields: including legendary polar explorers and such writers as Jon Krakauer, Jack London, Diane Ackerman, Barry Lopez, and Ursula K. LeGuin. Edited by two contemporary authorities on exploring and the environment, The Ends of the Earth is a memorable collection of terrific writing and a lasting contribution to the debate over global warming and the future of the polar regions themselves.

About International Polar Year

International Polar Year which begins in spring 2007 is a major international science initiative that aims to focus public attention on the polar regions and our effect on them. The last such initiative, the International Geophysical Year in 1957 58, involved 80,000 scientists from 67 countries. This one promises to be bigger still.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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