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The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island
Ile Mysterieuse 02.jpg
Cover page of The Mysterious Island
Author Jules Verne
Original title L'Île mystérieuse
Translator Agnes Kinloch Kingston and W. H. G. Kingston (1875)
Stephen W. White (1876)
I. O. Evans (1959)
Lowell Bair (1970)
Sidney Kravitz (2001)
Jordan Stump (2001)
Illustrator Jules Férat
Country France
Language French
Series The Extraordinary Voyages #12
Genre Adventure novel
Publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date
1874
Published in English
1874
Media type Print (Hardback)
Preceded by Around the World in Eighty Days
Followed by The Survivors of the Chancellor

Coordinates: 34°57′S 150°30′W / 34.950°S 150.500°W / -34.950; -150.500

The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson. Verne developed a similar theme in his later novel, Godfrey Morgan (French: L'École des Robinsons, 1882).

The plot focuses on the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. During the American Civil War, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, by hijacking a balloon.


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