A Floating City
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Author | Jules Verne |
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Original title | Une ville flottante |
Illustrator | Jules Férat |
Language | French |
Series | The Extraordinary Voyages #8 |
Genre | Adventure novel |
Publisher | Pierre-Jules Hetzel |
Publication date | 1871 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1874 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Preceded by | Around the Moon |
Followed by | The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa |
A Floating City, or sometimes translated The Floating City (French: Une ville flottante), is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published in 1871 in France.[1] At the time of its publication, the novel enjoyed a similar level of popularity as Around the World in Eighty Days.[2] The first UK and US editions of the novel appeared in 1874.[3] Jules Férat provided the original illustrations for the novel.[4]
Plot
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It tells of a woman who, on board the ship Great Eastern with her abusive husband, finds that the man she loves is also on board.
References
- ^ Schmidt, Johanna de (2016-07-01). "'This strange little floating world of ours': shipboard periodicals and community-building in the 'global' nineteenth century". Journal of Global History. 11 (2): 229–250. doi:10.1017/S1740022816000073. ISSN 1740-0228.
- ^ "A Floating City; The Blockade Runners; Round the World in Eighty Days; Dr. Ox's Experiment by Jules Verne, 1911". Archived from the original on 2016-12-22.
- ^ Nash, Andrew. "Jules Verne: Book: A Floating City, and The Blockade Runners - ANash". www.julesverne.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- ^ Evans, Arthur B (1998). "The Illustrations of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaire". Science Fiction Studies. 25: 241–270 – via DePauw University Library.
External links
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- Illustrations Archived 2014-09-02 at the Wayback Machine by Jules Férat
- A Floating City (English translation) at MobileRead
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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)
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- Doctor Ox (1874, short story collection)
- Journey Through the Impossible (1882, play)
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- Nautilus
- HMS Sword
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