EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
ABANDONED
BY JULES VERNE
FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS
THE PUBLISHERS OF EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TOALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES TO BECOMPRISED UNDER THE FOLLOWING TWELVE HEADINGS:
TRAVEL SCIENCE FICTION
THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
HISTORY CLASSICAL
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
ESSAYS ORATORY
POETRY & DRAMA
BIOGRAPHY
ROMANCE
IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING, CLOTH, FLAT BACK, COLOURED TOP, AND LEATHER,ROUND CORNERS, GILT TOP.
London: J. M. DENT & CO.
New York: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
THIS IS FAIRY GOLD, BOY; AND 'TWILL PROVE SO.SHAKESPEARE.
ABANDONED By JULES VERNE
Translated from the French By W. H. G. KINGSTON
LONDON: PUBLISHED by J. M. DENT & CO
AND IN NEW YORK BY E. P. DUTTON & CO
INTRODUCTION
The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, wasoriginally issued in Paris with the title of L'Abandonné. JulesVerne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes—anumber which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions.L'Abandonné, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a serialthrough the Magasin Illustré of education and recreation, before itsissue as a boy's story-book. Its success in both forms seems to haveestablished a record in the race for popularity and a circulation inboth the French and English fields of current literature. The presentbook was translated into English by the late W. H. G. Kingston; and isprinted in Everyman's Library by special exclusive arrangement withMessrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.
1909
The list of tales and favourite romances by Jules Verne includes thefollowing:—
Five Weeks in a Balloon, 1870; A Journey to the Centre of the Earth,translated by J. V., 1872; tr. F. A. Malleson, 1876; Twenty ThousandLeagues under the Sea, 1873; tr. H. Frith, 1876; From the Earth tothe Moon, and a Trip Round it, tr. Q. Mercier and E. G. King, 1873;The English at the North Pole, 1873; Meridiana: Adventures of ThreeEnglish and Three Russians, 1873; Dr. Ox's Experiment and otherStories, 1874; A Floating City, 1874; The Blockade Runners, 1874;Around the World in Eighty Days, tr. G. M. Towle and N. D'Anvers,1874, 1876; tr. H. Frith, 1879; The Fur Country, or Seventy DegreesNorth Latitude, tr. N. D'Anvers, 1874; tr H. Frith, 1879; TheMysterious Island, tr. W. H. G. Kingston, 1875; The Survivors of theChancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, tr E. Frewer, 1875; MartinPaz, tr. E. Frewer, 1876; Field of Ice, 1876; Child of the Cavern,tr. W. H. G. Kingston, 1877, Michael Strogoff, tr. W. H. G. Kingston,1877; A Voyage Round the World, 1877; Hector Senvadac, tr. E.Frewer, 1878; Dick Sands, the Boy Captain, tr. E. Frewer, 187