Lighthouse at the End of the World/ Le Phare Du Bout Du Monde: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript

The second title in Wesleyan's new Early Classics of Science Fiction series is Sidney Kravitz's translation (14 years in the making) of Jules Verne's castaway epic, The Mysterious Island. Like the Continue reading »

Of the six novels that Jules Verne left unpublished at the time of his death, five were heavily revised and rewritten by his son, Michel. In recent years, two of the original manuscripts have been Continue reading »

Originally and inexpertly translated in 1879, Verne's cautionary tale concerns human failings in the face of both wealth and scientific progress. Instead of valorizing progress like most Verne Continue reading »

Leading off Wesleyan's Early Classics of Science Fiction series, Verne's 1905 techno-thriller debuts in English, rendered by Baxter with supple decorum and reinforced by editor Arthur B. Continue reading »

Fans of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days may find this work from Verne Continue reading »

Verne’s classic journey into the ocean follows professor Pierre Aronnax and his two companions as they are captured by Capt. Nemo and find themselves trapped aboard the Nautilus, a high-powered Continue reading »

The sounds of a chugging steam engine and the orchestral movie-score strains that open this program set the stage for Dale's top-drawer performance of this much-loved adventure story. As one Continue reading »

In 1863, Jules Verne was a young writer with one published novel under his belt and a new multibook contract with a prominent French publisher in hand. The publisher, however, rejected Verne's second Continue reading »

The Mighty Orinoco (1898), Jules Verne's novel of scientific adventure along Venezuela's Orinoco River, appears in its first English translation, along with an introduction and notes by Walter Continue reading »

Lewis’s delightful translation of Verne’s 1889 satirical farce has modern-day resonance in its critique of white man’s hubris. Impey Barbicane (president of the Baltimore Gun Club, which sent members Continue reading »

This first English translation of Verne's awkward hybrid of travelogue and coded detective story, originally serialized in 1902, centers on Dutch brothers Karl and Pieter Kip. In the Continue reading »

The prolific Verne (1828–1905), renowned in his day and through to ours, left at least 11 unpublished works at his death, each of which, according to the introduction by Olivier Dumas, was Continue reading »