num_pages: 630
description: Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” ( Kirkus Reviews ), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive as they uncover the island’s secret.
language: English
title: The Mysterious Island
titlecomplete: The Mysterious Island (Modern Library Classics)
characters: Nebuchadnezzar, Tom Ayrton, Cyrus Smith, Top, Herbert Brown, Gideon Spilett, Bonadventure Pencroff, Captain Nemo, Robert Grant, Bob Harvey, Jupiter
genres: French Literature, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 52676
places: Tabor Island, Richmond, Virginia, Lincoln Island
series: Capitaine Nemo
publisher: Modern Library