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Works of Jules Verne (6); The Mysterious Island: Dropped From the Clouds (cont'd) the Abandoned. the Secret of the Island
Jules Verne
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-22.
ISBN 9781150416545
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Volume: 6 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: f.Tyler Daniels co., inc. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ever, monstrosities, the typical Americans of French imagination in the year 1865, drawn by the author absolutely without personal knowledge to guide him. But the warm reception of Verne's books in "America, stimulated his sympathetic interest in our land. In 1867 he journeyed hither, and as a consequence the Americans of his later books approach more closely to being human. Moreover his youthful admiration of Englishmen was somewhat waning. Scotchmen, resentful and even bitter against their sister kingdom, hold the center of the field in " In Search of the Castaways." Captain Nemo glorifies a yet bitterer foe to England, an East Indian Prince of the great " mutiny." Hence when in " The Mysterious Island " Verne was again looking for inventiveness and ingenuity, he made all five of his central characters American. Moreover he discriminated them clearly and handled them with appreciation. The sailor Pencraft, to be sure, would scarcely be recognised as an 'American type; and Cyrus Harding is so completely a walking cyclopaedia rather than a man that one almost wonders if Captain Nemo's secret gift to the colonists of a second cyclopaedia was not meant in sarcasm rather than in kindness. Yet here and in " The Survivors of the Chancellor " we certainly touch high water mark in our author's estimate of the American race. The Mysterious Island Dropped From the Clouds CHAPTER XV THE METALLIC PERIOD HE next day, the I7th of 'April, the sailor's first words were addressed to Gideon Spilett. " Well, sir, " he asked, " what shall we do to-day?" " Wh
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