THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

USA: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1935 GOOD CONDITION, DARK RED COVER, BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, 2 LIGHT ROUND GLASS STAINS BACK COVER, SMALL STAIN AND NICK ON FRONT, SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER WITH STAMP INSIDE, CUT OFF CORNER OF THAT PAGE. VERY GOOD CONDITION THROUGHOUT, FRONTISPIECE BEAUTIFUL COLOR. 14 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS. Jules Verne was a French novelist whose many popular novels include the classics A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). While studying law, Verne wrote plays and librettos, but soon turned to writing novels full-time. He wrote dozens of books in his career and became the world-famous and wealthy author of adventures that are still in print today, including In Search of the Castaways (1868), The Mysterious Island (1874) and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). 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 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. 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.[2] 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.