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Book The Mysterious Island Trilogy   The Original US Translation

Download or read book The Mysterious Island Trilogy The Original US Translation written by Jules Verne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “The Mysterious Island Trilogy - The Original UK Translation” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Mysterious Island by Jules Verne is subtitled Shipwrecked in the Air, The Abandoned and The Secret of the Island, includes Map and Glossary. The present translation is by Stephen W. White. It first appeared in the Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia, PA and was later published as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book in 1876. English translators often altered their translations to suit current political views of Church and Empire. It is about six Northerns prisoners that flee Richmond during the American Civil War. Their escape is done by balloon and brings them to an inhabited island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The book tells the tale of how these men survive. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

Book The Mysterious Island Trilogy

Download or read book The Mysterious Island Trilogy written by Jules Verne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “The Mysterious Island Trilogy” contains two translations in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Mysterious Island was originally published as L'Ile mystéreuse in parts in France between 1873 and 1875 in a periodical. It was the last part of a trilogy. The Mysterious Island made the links between the two novels Captain Grant's Children (1865), and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (1869). This idea had been born even before the start of writing of The Mysterious Island. The first English translation was available by Sampson Low in 1875, translated by W.H.G. Kingston. He was a famous author of boys' adventure and sailing stories. However, it is now known that the actual translator of Mysterious Island and his other Verne novels was actually his wife, Agnes Kinloch Kingston. Based on this first English version followed many other variants of translations or abridged versions. In 1876 the Stephen W. White translation appeared first in the columns of The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia and subsequently as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book. This translation is more faithful to the original story and restores the death scene of Captain Nemo, but there is still condensation and omission of some sections such as Verne's description of how a sawmill works. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

Book The Mysterious Island Trilogy  2 Translations

Download or read book The Mysterious Island Trilogy 2 Translations written by Jules Verne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 1197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mysterious Island Trilogy" contains two translations in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Mysterious Island was originally published as L'Ile mystéreuse in parts in France between 1873 and 1875 in a periodical. It was the last part of a trilogy. The Mysterious Island made the links between the two novels Captain Grant's Children (1865), and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (1869). This idea had been born even before the start of writing of The Mysterious Island. The first English translation was available by Sampson Low in 1875, translated by W.H.G. Kingston. He was a famous author of boys' adventure and sailing stories. However, it is now known that the actual translator of Mysterious Island and his other Verne novels was actually his wife, Agnes Kinloch Kingston. Based on this first English version followed many other variants of translations or abridged versions. In 1876 the Stephen W. White translation appeared first in the columns of The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia and subsequently as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book. This translation is more faithful to the original story and restores the death scene of Captain Nemo, but there is still condensation and omission of some sections such as Verne's description of how a sawmill works. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

Book The Mysterious Island Trilogy   The Original UK Translation

Download or read book The Mysterious Island Trilogy The Original UK Translation written by Jules Verne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “The Mysterious Island Trilogy - The Original UK Translation” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne is subtitled Dropped from the Clouds, Abandoned and The Secret of the Island. It is a translation of L’Île mystérieuse first published in England by Sampson and Low and in the United States by Scribner and Henry L. Shepard using the same translation of W. H. G. Kingston. English translators often altered their translations to suit current political views of Church and Empire. The novel is about six Northerns prisoners that flee Richmond during the American Civil War. Their escape is done by balloon and brings them to an inhabited island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The book tells the tale of how these men survive. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

Book THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jules Verne
  • Publisher : e-artnow
  • Release : 2017-10-06
  • ISBN : 8027218365
  • Pages : 980 pages

Download or read book THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND written by Jules Verne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Island was originally published as L'Ile mystéreuse in parts in France between 1873 and 1875 in a periodical. It was the last part of a trilogy. The Mysterious Island made the links between the two novels Captain Grant's Children (1865), and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (1869). This idea had been born even before the start of writing of The Mysterious Island. The first English translation was available by Sampson Low in 1875, translated by W.H.G. Kingston. He was a famous author of boys' adventure and sailing stories. However, it is now known that the actual translator of Mysterious Island and his other Verne novels was actually his wife, Agnes Kinloch Kingston. Based on this first English version followed many other variants of translations or abridged versions. In 1876 the Stephen W. White translation appeared first in the columns of The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia and subsequently as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book. This translation is more faithful to the original story and restores the death scene of Captain Nemo, but there is still condensation and omission of some sections such as Verne's description of how a sawmill works. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

Book The Mysterious Island Trilogy

Download or read book The Mysterious Island Trilogy written by Jules Verne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 1197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Island was originally published as L'Ile mystéreuse in parts in France between 1873 and 1875 in a periodical. It was the last part of a trilogy. The Mysterious Island made the links between the two novels Captain Grant's Children (1865), and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (1869). This idea had been born even before the start of writing of The Mysterious Island. The first English translation was available by Sampson Low in 1875, translated by W.H.G. Kingston. He was a famous author of boys' adventure and sailing stories. However, it is now known that the actual translator of Mysterious Island and his other Verne novels was actually his wife, Agnes Kinloch Kingston. Based on this first English version followed many other variants of translations or abridged versions. In 1876 the Stephen W. White translation appeared first in the columns of The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia and subsequently as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book. This translation is more faithful to the original story and restores the death scene of Captain Nemo, but there is still condensation and omission of some sections such as Verne's description of how a sawmill works. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

Book The Mysterious Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jules Verne
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 2002-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780819565594
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Mysterious Island written by Jules Verne and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when Verne is making a comeback in the US as a mainstream literary figure, Wesleyan is pleased to publish a new translation of one of his best-known novels, The Mysterious Island. Although several editions under the same title are in print, most reproduce a bowdlerized nineteenth-century translation which changes the names of the characters, omits several important scenes, and ideologically censors Verne's original text. The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has secretly been helping the settlers. A marvelous adventure story, The Mysterious Island is also notable for its modern retelling of the utopian deserted-island myth, with repeated echoes of Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar William Butcher, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.

Book The Mysterious Island

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  • Author : Jules Verne
  • Publisher : Standard Ebooks
  • Release : 2016-08-29T22:51:23Z
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book The Mysterious Island written by Jules Verne and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2016-08-29T22:51:23Z with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Island tells the tale of five Americans who, in an attempt to escape the Civil War, pilot a hot-air balloon and find themselves crashed on a deserted island somewhere in the Pacific. Verne had been greatly influenced by works like Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, and that influence shines brightly in this novel of engineering ingenuity and adventure. Verne imparts the escapees with such over-the-top cleverness and so many luckily-placed resources that modern readers might find the extent to which they tame the island comical. Despite that, the island contains genuine mysteries for the adventurers to solve. The standard translation of The Mysterious Island was produced in 1875, and is credited to W. H. G. Kingston. Despite its popularity, it’s widely criticized for abridging and Bowdlerizing important parts of the text. The translation presented here, produced by Stephen W. White in 1876, is considered a much more accurate translation, despite it also abridging some portions. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Book The Mysterious Island  Unabridged Text

Download or read book The Mysterious Island Unabridged Text written by Jules Verne and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Island tells the tale of five Americans who, in an attempt to escape the Civil War, pilot a hot-air balloon and find themselves crashed on a deserted island somewhere in the Pacific. Verne had been greatly influenced by works like Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, and that influence shines brightly in this novel of engineering ingenuity and adventure. Verne imparts the escapees with such over-the-top cleverness and so many luckily-placed resources that modern readers might find the extent to which they tame the island comical. Despite that, the island contains genuine mysteries for the adventurers to solve. The standard translation of The Mysterious Island was produced in 1875, and is credited to W. H. G. Kingston. Despite its popularity, it's widely criticized for abridiging and Bowlderizing important parts of the text. The translation presented here, produced by Stephen W. White in 1876, is considered a much more accurate translation, despite it also abridging some portions.

Book The Mysterious Island

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  • Author : Jules Verne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 550 pages

Download or read book The Mysterious Island written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1875. 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 Seas (1870) and In Search of the Castaways (1867-68), 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 of the novels Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson. Verne developed a similar theme in his later novel, Godfrey Morgan (French: L'École des Robinsons, 1882).During the American Civil War, five Northern prisoners of war escape during the Siege of Richmond, Virginia, by hijacking a hydrogen-filled observation balloon. The escapees are Cyrus Smith, a railroad engineer in the Union army (named Cyrus Harding in Kingston's version); his ex-slave and loyal follower Neb (short for Nebuchadnezzar); Bonadventure Pencroff, a sailor (who is addressed only by his surname; in Kingston's translation, he is named Pencroft); his protégé and adopted son Harbert Brown (called Herbert in some translations); and the journalist Gedéon Spilett (Gideon Spilett in English versions). The company is completed by Cyrus' dog "Top".After flying in a great storm for several days, the group crash-lands on a cliff-bound, volcanic, unknown island, described as being located at 34°57′S 150°30′W, about 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) east of New Zealand. They name it "Lincoln Island" in honor of Abraham Lincoln. With the knowledge of the brilliant engineer Smith, the five are able to sustain themselves on the island, producing fire, pottery, bricks, nitroglycerin, iron, a simple electric telegraph, a cave home inside a stony cliff called "Granite House", and even a seaworthy ship, which they name the "Bonadventure".During their stay on the island, the group endures bad weather and domesticates an orangutan, Jupiter, abbreviated to Jup (or Joop, in Jordan Stump's translation). There is a mystery on the island in the form of an unseen deus ex machina, responsible for Cyrus' survival after falling from the balloon, the mysterious rescue of Top from a dugong, the appearance of a box of equipment (guns and ammunition, tools, etc.), and other seemingly inexplicable occurrences.The group finds a message in a bottle directing them to rescue a castaway on nearby Tabor Island, who is none other than Tom Ayrton (from In Search of the Castaways). On the return voyage to Lincoln Island, they lose their way in a tempest but are guided back to their course by a mysterious fire beacon.Ayrton's former companions arrive by chance on Lincoln Island and try to make it into their lair. After some fighting with the protagonists, the pirate ship is mysteriously destroyed by an explosion. Six of the pirates survive and kidnap Ayrton. When the colonists go to look for him, the pirates shoot Harbert, seriously injuring him. Harbert survives, narrowly cheating death. The colonists at first assume Ayrton has been killed, but later they find evidence that he was not instantly killed, leaving his fate uncertain. When the colonists rashly attempt to return to Granite House before Harbert fully recovers, Harbert contracts malaria but is saved by a box of quinine sulfate, which mysteriously appears on the table in Granite House. After Harbert recovers, they attempt to rescue Ayrton and destroy the pirates. They discover Ayrton at the sheepfold, and the pirates dead, without any visible wounds.The secret of the island is revealed to be Captain Nemo's hideout, and home port of the Nautilus. Having escaped the Maelstrom at the end of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Book The Mysterious Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jules Verne
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-02-11
  • ISBN : 9781543047196
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Mysterious Island written by Jules Verne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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[1] and The Swiss Family Robinson. Verne developed a similar theme in his later novel, Godfrey Morgan (French: L'Ecole des Robinsons, 1882)

Book The Mysterious Island

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  • Author : Jules Verne
  • Publisher : Modern Library
  • Release : 2002-12-10
  • ISBN : 0812966422
  • Pages : 674 pages

Download or read book The Mysterious Island written by Jules Verne and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2002-12-10 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive as they uncover the island’s secret.

Book The Mysterious Island

Download or read book The Mysterious Island written by Jules Verne and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1986 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. "Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump" (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive as they uncover the island's secret.

Book The Mysterious Island

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  • Author : Jules Verne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Mysterious Island written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mysterious Island Annotated

Download or read book The Mysterious Island Annotated written by Jules Verne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1875. 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 Seas (1870) and In Search of the Castaways (1867-68), 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 of the novels Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson. Verne developed a similar theme in his later novel, Godfrey Morgan (French: L'École des Robinsons, 1882).

Book The Mysterious Island

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  • Author : Agnes KINLOCH KINGSTON
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-04-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 599 pages

Download or read book The Mysterious Island written by Agnes KINLOCH KINGSTON and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The mysterious Island " (original french version called "L'île mystérieuse" is an 1874 novel written by Jules Verne.After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escapes the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Through teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering, and perseverance, they endeavour to build a colony from scratch. But this island of abundant resources has its secrets. The castaways discover they are not alone. A shadowy, yet familiar, agent of their unfathomable fate is watching.What unfolds in Jules Verne's imaginative marvel is both an enthralling mystery and the ultimate in survivalist adventures. "The mysterious Island" 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. The Jules Verne Odyssey classic collection is made to give you a fine translation of Jules VERNE work. All the illustrations are made with the original first edition illustration. We wish you to enjoy your reads with us. Be happy, be Jules VERNE odyssey classic collection.Jules VERNE Odyssey classic collection ASIN number:From the earth to the moon (XXXXX)Around the Moon (XXXXX)Hector Servadac - Off on a Comet(XXXXX)In Search of the Castaways(XXXXX)Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(XXXXX)The Mysterious Island(XXXXX)A Floating City(XXXXX)The Blockade Runners(XXXXX)The Survivors of the Chancellor (XXXXX)Dick Sands, the Boy Captain (XXXXX)Five weeks in a ballon(XXXXX)

Book Mysterious Island

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  • Author : Jules Verne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN : 9780590085700
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mysterious Island written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: