Voyages Extraordinaires
Mathias Sandorf is an 1885 adventure book by French writer Jules Verne. It was first serialized in "Le Temps" in 1885, and it was Verne's epic Mediterranean adventure. It employs many of the devices that had served well in his earlier novels: islands, cryptograms, surprise revelations of identity, technically advanced hardware and a solitary figure bent on revenge. Verne dedicated the novel to the memory of Alexandre Dumas, "père", hoping to make "Mathias Sandorf" the "Monte Cristo" of "Voyages Extraordinaires" ("The Extraordinary Voyages") series.