A Drama in Livonia

1893 novel by Jules Verne

A Drama in Livonia

Author	Jules Verne
Original title	Un drame en Livonie
Translator	I. O. Evans
Illustrator	Léon Benett
Language	French
Series	The Extraordinary Voyages No. 52
Genre	Adventure novel, tragedy
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1904
Publication place	France
Published in English	1967
Media type	Print (hardback)
Preceded by	Traveling Scholarships
Followed by	The Lighthouse at the End of the World

A Drama in Livonia (French: Un drame en Livonie) is a tragic mystery novel written by Jules Verne in 1893,^[1]^[2] revised in 1903 and first published in 1904.

Plot outline

In the Governorate of Livonia, a bank employee who is carrying money is murdered. The prime suspect is Professor Dimitri Nicolef. He was the only person present, besides the innkeeper German Kroff. Wladimir Yanof, a lawyer and the fiancé of Ilka Nicolef (the professor's daughter), has escaped from Siberia to prove the innocence of his future father-in-law.

Publication history

1967, UK, London: Arco. 192 pp., First UK edition

Notes and references

^ "Un drame en Livonie by VERNE Jules: Couverture rigide (1904) Signed by Author(s) | Librairie Le Feu Follet". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
^ The book was written during the Dreyfus affair, hence the similarity of the stories.

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Jules Verne (bibliography)

Voyages
extraordinaires

Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866)
In Search of the Castaways (1867–68)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869–70)
Around the Moon (1870)
A Floating City (1871)
The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1872)
The Fur Country (1873)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
The Mysterious Island (1874–75)
The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)
Michael Strogoff (1876)
Off on a Comet (1877)
The Child of the Cavern (1877)
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (1878)
The Begum's Fortune (1879)
Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (1879)
The Steam House (1880)
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)
Godfrey Morgan (1882)
The Green Ray (1882)
Kéraban the Inflexible (1883)
The Vanished Diamond (1884)
The Archipelago on Fire (1884)
Mathias Sandorf (1885)
The Lottery Ticket (1886)
Robur the Conqueror (1886)
North Against South (1887)
The Flight to France (1887)
Two Years' Vacation (1888)
Family Without a Name (1889)
The Purchase of the North Pole (1889)
César Cascabel (1890)
Mistress Branican (1891)
The Carpathian Castle (1892)
Claudius Bombarnac (1892)
Foundling Mick (1893)
Captain Antifer (1894)
Propeller Island (1895)
Facing the Flag (1896)
Clovis Dardentor (1896)
An Antarctic Mystery (1897)
The Mighty Orinoco (1898)
The Will of an Eccentric (1899)
The Castaways of the Flag (1900)
The Village in the Treetops (1901)
The Sea Serpent (1901)
The Kip Brothers (1902)
Travel Scholarships (1903)
A Drama in Livonia (1904)
Master of the World (1904)
Invasion of the Sea (1905)

Other works

Short stories	"A Drama in Mexico" (1851) "A Drama in the Air" (1851) "Martin Paz" (1852) "Master Zacharius" (1854) "A Winter amid the Ice" (1855) "The Count of Chanteleine" (1864) "The Blockade Runners" (1865) "Dr. Ox's Experiment" (1872) "An Ideal City" (1875) "The Mutineers of the Bounty" (1879) "Frritt-Flacc" (1884) "Gil Braltar" (1887) "In the Year 2889" (1889) "The Eternal Adam" (1910)
Novels	The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1905) The Golden Volcano (1906) The Thompson Travel Agency (1907, by Michel Verne) The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908) The Danube Pilot (1908) The Survivors of the "Jonathan" (1909) The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1910) The Barsac Mission (1919) Backwards to Britain (1989, written 1859) A Priest in 1839 (1992, written ca. 1847) Paris in the Twentieth Century (1994, written 1863)

Short
stories