The Secret of the Island, by Jules Verne
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The Secret of the Island, by Jules Verne
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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. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father’s footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. The pioneering submarine designer Simon Lake credited his inspiration to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and his autobiography begins ”Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life.” William Beebe, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Ballard found similar early inspiration in the novel, and Jacques Cousteau called it his ”shipboard bible”. The aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont named Verne as his favorite author and the inspiration for his own elaborate flying machines. Igor Sikorsky often quoted Verne and cited his Robur the Conqueror as the inspiration for his invention of the first successful helicopter. The rocketry innovators Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth are all known to have taken their inspiration from Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders, the astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission, were similarly inspired, with Borman commenting ”In a very real sense, Jules Verne is one of the pioneers of the space age”. When cosmonaut Georgi Grechko was orbiting Earth with Yuri Romanenko on the Salyut 6 in 1978, he broadcast back a message to celebrate Verne’s 150th birthday, saying: ”There’s hardly a person who hasn’t read his books, at any rate not among the cosmonauts, because Jules Verne was a dreamer, a visionary who saw flights in space. I’d say this flight too was predicted by Jules Verne.”
The Secret of the Island, by Jules Verne- Published on: 2015-11-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .49" w x 6.00" l, .64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 214 pages
About the Author Jules Verne was a French writer and pioneer of the science fiction genre through novels like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Mysterious Island. A visionary, Verne wrote about air, space, and underwater travel long before the ability to travel in these realms was invented, and his works remain amongst the most translated, most continually reprinted, and most widely read books of all time. Jules Verne died in 1905 having paved the way for future science fiction writers and enthusiasts.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. This is really the second half of "The Mysterious Island" By banjoist I had thought this might be a sequel to "Mysterious Island," but it's just the second part of that novel. I suggest you download the free copy of "Mysterious Island" and get both parts together.That said, this has always been a favorite of mine.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. This is only the last 1/3 of "The Mysterious Island" By Librarian Jules Verne originally wrote his wonderful novel "The Mysterious Island" in 3 parts, each published separately to appease eager fans while the full book was still a work-in-progress. Part-1 is "Dropped From the Clouds," Part-2 is "Abandoned," and Part-3 is this, "The Secret of the Island." Once the novel was completed, there was (and still is) no longer any need for the separate components of it. Therefore, I heartily recommend you read the entire novel (containing all 3 parts) which (like this) is also a public domain freebie. In fact, there are TWO such free versions of "The Mysterious Island" in the Kindle Store, the British translation by W.H.G. Kingston (search by: Free books Verne Mysterious Island) and an American translation by Stephen W. White (search by: Free books Verne Ile Mysterieuse. English). It might even be fun to read and compare both of them -- but either one will give you the completed story in all 3 parts. Sadly, the actual secret referred to in the title of this portion is often revealed in blurbs and reviews for this work, thus spoiling the mystery, but the full book still remains great fun to read.Since this is only 1/3 of the complete 5-star classic, I have rated it only 1/3 as much (1.66 stars which rounds off to 2).FYI: Newer, corrected, slightly fuller, unexpurgated translations of "The Mysterious Island" are available, one by Jordan Stump from Modern Library/Random (and currently only $2.99) and another by Sidney Kravitz from Wesleyan (costing considerably more). Both are excellent, but skip the spoiler-filled introductions until after you have read and enjoyed the book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A VERY NICE READ By Len I DOWNLOADED THIS BECAUSE I WAS ON A VERNE KICK.THIS WAS A PRETTY GOOD ADVENTURE BOOK. SURVIORSON AN ISLAND, VOLCANOS AND PIRATES. YOU GOTTALOVE IT. VERY GOOD BOOK AND THE PRICE WAS RIGHT.
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