• Publication: Dr. Ox's Experiment and Other StoriesPublication Record # 383308
• Author: Jules Verne
• Date: 1875-00-00
• Publisher: James R. Osgood and Co.
• Pages: xi+332
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Webpages: archive.org
• Notes: Illustrations appear to be the same as the french Hetzel publication. Dr. Ox's Experiment, and Other Stories on Archive.org. Reprint of authorized translation Dr. Ox, and Other Stories (1874), by same publisher. That edition listed George M. Towle as the Translator. Dr. Ox's Experiment is the Towle translation and begins: "If you try to find, on any map of Flanders, ancient or modern, the small town of Quiquendone, probably you will not succeed. Is Quiquendone, then, one of those towns which have disappeared? No." Master Zacharius is a variant Towle translation and begins: "The city of Geneva lies at the west end of the lake of the same name. The Rhone, which passes through the town at the outlet of the lake, divides it into two sections, and is itself divided in the centre of the city by an island placed in mid-stream." A Drama in the Air is the Towle translation and begins: "In the month of September, 185—, I arrived at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. My passage through the principal German cities had been brilliantly marked by balloon ascents; but as yet no German had accompanied me in my car, and the fine experiments made at Paris by MM. Green, Eugene Godard, and Poitevin had not tempted the grave Teutons to essay aerial voyages." A Winter Amid the Ice is the Towle translation and begins: "The curé of the ancient church of Dunkirk rose at five o'clock on the 12th of May, 18—, to perform, according to his custom, low mass for the benefit of a few pious sinners. " The Fortieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc translation begins: "I arrived at Chamonix on the 18th of August, 1871, fully decided to make the ascent of Mont Blanc, cost what it might."
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1621760
  • Reginald-1: 14614

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Dr. Ox's Experiment and Other Stories • interior artwork by uncredited
• 1 • Doctor Ox's Experiment • (1874) • novella by Jules Verne (trans. of Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox 1872)
• 1 •  Doctor Ox's Experiment • (1874) • interior artwork by
  Lorenz Frølich^?Lorenz Froelich
  (variant of Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox)
• 103 • Master Zacharius • (1874) • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Maître Zacharius ou l'horloger qui avait perdu son âme 1854)
• 103 •  Master Zacharius • (1874) • interior artwork by Theophile Schuler (variant of Maître Zacharius)
• 161 • A Drama in the Air • (1874) • short story by Jules Verne (trans. of Un drame dans les airs 1851)
• 161 •  A Drama in the Air • (1874) • interior artwork by Émile Bayard (variant of Un drame dans les airs)
• 193 • A Winter Amid the Ice • (1874) • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Un hivernage dans les glaces 1855)
• 193 •  A Winter Amid the Ice • (1874) • interior artwork by A. Marie (variant of Un hivernage dans les glaces)
• 295 • The Fortieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc • (1874) • essay by Paul Verne (trans. of Quarantième Ascension Française au Mont Blanc)
• 295 •  The Fortieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc • (1874) • interior artwork by Yon (variant of Quarantième Ascension Française au Mont Blanc)