Thursday, March 13, 2008

Verne wrote numerous works, most famous of which are the 54 novels part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. He also wrote short stories, essays, plays, and poems.

Some of his better known works include:

* Five Weeks in a Balloon (Cinq Semaines en ballon, 1863)
* Paris in the 20th Century (Paris au XXe Siècle, 1863, not published until 1994)
* Journey to the Center of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre, 1864)
* From the Earth to the Moon (De la terre à la lune, 1865)
* Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras, 1866; also published in two volumes as A Journey to the North Pole or At the North Pole or The English at the North Pole and The Field of Ice or The Desert of Ice)
* In Search of the Castaways or Captain Grant's Children (Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, 1867-1868)
* Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 1869)
* Around The Moon (Autour de la lune, a sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, 1870)
* A Floating City (Une ville flottante, 1871)
* Dr. Ox's Experiment (Une Fantaisie du Docteur Ox, 1872)
* The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais, 1872 )
* The Fur Country (Le Pays des fourrures, 1873)
* Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingts jours, 1873)
* The Survivors of the Chancellor (Le Chancellor, 1875)
* The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse, sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, 1875)
* Blockade runners (Les Forceurs de blocus, 1876)
* Michael Strogoff (Michel Strogoff, 1876)
* Off On A Comet (Hector Servadac, 1877; also published in two volumes as To the Sun? and Off on a Comet!)
* The Child of the Cavern, also known as Black Diamonds or The Black Indies (Les Indes noires, 1877)
* Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (Un Capitaine de quinze ans, 1878)
* The Begum's Millions (Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum, 1879)
* The Steam House (La Maison à vapeur, 1879)
* Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine), 1879
* Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (La Jangada, 1881)
* The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert, 1882)
* The Headstrong Turk (1883)
* Frritt-Flacc (1884)
* The Vanished Diamond (L’Étoile du sud, 1884)
* The Archipelago on Fire (L’Archipel en feu, 1884)
* Mathias Sandorf (1885)
* Robur the Conqueror or The Clipper of the Clouds (Robur-le-Conquérant, 1886)
* Ticket No. "9672" (Un Billet de loterie, 1886 )
* North Against South (Nord contre Sud, 1887)
* The Flight to France (Le Chemin de France, 1887)
* Family Without a Name (Famille-sans-nom, 1888)
* Two Years' Vacation (Deux Ans de vacances, 1888)
* The Purchase of the North Pole or Topsy Turvy (Sans dessus dessous, the second sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, 1889)
* Mistress Branican, (1891)
* Carpathian Castle (Le Château des Carpathes, 1892)
* Propeller Island (L’Île à hélice, 1895)
* Facing the Flag (Face au drapeau, 1896)
* Clovis Dardentor (1896)
* The Sphinx of the Ice Fields or An Antarctic Mystery (Le Sphinx des glaces, a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 1897)
* The Mighty Orinoco (Le Superbe Orénoque, 1898)
* Second Fatherland (Seconde Patrie, sequel to Johann Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson, 1900; also published in two volumes as Their Island Home and Castaways of the Flag)
* The Village in the Treetops (Le Village aérien, 1901)
* The Master of the World (Maître du monde, sequel to Robur the Conqueror, 1904)
* Invasion of the Sea (L’Invasion de la mer, 1904)
* A Drama in Livonia (Un Drame en Livonie, 1904)
* The Lighthouse at the End of the World (Le Phare du bout du monde, 1905)
* The Chase of the Golden Meteor (La Chasse au météore, 1908)
* The Danube Pilot (Le Pilote du Danube, 1908)
* The Survivors of the 'Jonathan' (Le Naufrages du Jonathan, 1909)
* The Eternal Adam (L’Eternel Adam, 1910)

Holmes books

Main article: Canon of Sherlock Holmes

* A Study in Scarlet (1887)
* The Sign of Four (1890)
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
* The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
* The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904)
* The Valley of Fear (1914)
* His Last Bow (1917)
* The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)

[edit] Challenger stories

* The Lost World (1912)[7]
* The Poison Belt (1913)[7]
* The Land of Mist (1926)[7]
* The Disintegration Machine (1927)
* When the World Screamed (1928)

[edit] Historical novels

* Micah Clarke (1888)
* The White Company (1891)
* The Great Shadow (1892)
* The Refugees (publ. 1893, written 1892)
* Rodney Stone (1896)
* Uncle Bernac (1897)
* Sir Nigel (1906)
* The British Campaign in France and Flanders: 1914 (1916)

[edit] Other works

* "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), a story based on the fate of the ship Mary Celeste
* The Mystery of Cloomber (1889)
* The Firm of Girdlestone (1890)
* The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales (1890)
* The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1890)[7]
* The Doings Of Raffles Haw (1891)[7]
* Beyond the City (1892)
* Jane Annie, or the Good Conduct Prize (1893)
* My Friend the Murderer and Other Mysteries and Adventures (1893)[7]
* Round The Red Lamp (1894)[7]
* The Parasite (1894)[7]
* The Stark Munro Letters (1895)
* Songs of Action (1898)
* The Tragedy of The Korosko (1898)
* A Duet (1899)
* The Great Boer War (1900)
* The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1903)
* Through the Magic Door (1907)
* Round the Fire Stories (1908)[7]
* The Crime of the Congo (1909)
* The Lost Gallery (1911)[7]
* The Terror of Blue John Gap (1912)
* Danger! and Other Stories (1918)[7]
* The New Revelation (1918)
* The Horror of the Heights (1918)
* The Vital Message (1919)
* Tales of Terror & Mystery (1923)
* The Black Doctor and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery (1925)[7]
* The Dealings of Captain Sharkey (1925)[7]
* The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure (1925)[7]
* The History of Spiritualism (1926)
* The Maracot Deep (1929)[7]

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