Cyrus Smith
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Voyages Extraordinaires character | |
![]() Cyrus Smith blessing Captain Nemo on his death bed in The Mysterious Island | |
Created by | Jules Verne |
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Gender | Male |
Occupation | Engineer, USA Army Officer |
Nationality | American |
Cyrus Smith (named Cyrus Harding in some English translations) is one of the protagonists of Jules Verne's 1875 novel The Mysterious Island. He is an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[1] He is a very skilled man and a fine literary example of a 19th-century engineer.[2][3]
Cyrus Smith is also a man possessed of the kind of high moral qualities common in Verne's protagonists. He is selfless, noble, honest, courageous, and utterly devoted to his companions. His practical knowledge of physics, chemistry, botany, navigation, and many other fields enables the Mysterious Island's colonists to quickly establish a thriving mini-civilization in isolation from the rest of the world. Smith is, however, annoyed and secretive regarding the fact that the colony has been mysteriously saved many times by a benefactor who refuses to reveal himself, causing his own achievements to seem less significant.
In the 2002 novel Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius by Kevin J. Anderson, he is one of the officials captured by Robur (another Verne creation, from the novels Robur the Conqueror and Master of the World) during the Crimean War, along with Captain Nemo and Passepartout.
References
- ^ Fehrmann, Andreas. "The Fascination of the Mysterious Island". Die Welt Jules Vernes: Sein Leben und sein Werk. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ Butcher, William (14 May 2006). Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography. Da Capo Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-56025-854-4. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ Taves, Brian (22 April 2015). Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on Screen. University Press of Kentucky. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-8131-6113-6. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
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- 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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