Title: The Floating Island
Title Record # 186949
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1896-00-00
Variant Title of: L'île à hélice [French] (1895) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 41
Language: English
Current Tags: Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1896-00-00
Variant Title of: L'île à hélice [French] (1895) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 41
Language: English
Note: Translated by W. J. Gordon and significantly abridged to remove anti-US and anti-British passages.
This translation begins:
"When a journey begins badly it rarely ends well. At least that ought to have been the opinion of the four instrumentalists whose instruments lay on the ground, the carriage in which they were riding having suddenly upset against a mound by the side of the road."
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Current Tags: Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Floating Island; or, The Pearl of the Pacific | 1896-00-00 | Jules Verne | Sampson Low, Marston & Company |
vii+ 382 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||||
The Floating Island; or, The Pearl of the Pacific | 1900-00-00 | Jules Verne | W. L. Allison Company |
vii+ 382 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||||
The Floating Island | 2009-03-01 | Jules Verne | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-5082-1 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
392 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
The Floating Island | 2009-03-01 | Jules Verne | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-5177-4 | $19.99?$: US dollar |
392 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel |