{"product_id":"9781632952820","title":"4 Tales of Mystery (Illustrated)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Secret of the Island \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a sequel to \"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea\". A\u003cbr\u003eparty of British adventurers, who had been ballooning, but whose trip\u003cbr\u003ehad ended by being cast away on a Pacific island, have various setbacks\u003cbr\u003edue to both pirates and convicts who had escaped from jails in mainland\u003cbr\u003eAustralasia. They realise that at times there appears to be some kind\u003cbr\u003eof entity that is looking after them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis entity proves to be none other than Captain Nemo whom the reader is\u003cbr\u003eexpected to have met before with his submarine \"Nautilus\" in \"20,000\u003cbr\u003eLeagues\". Captain Nemo has been living in a huge cave inside the very\u003cbr\u003evolcanic island, where he is surrounded with immense wealth. But he is\u003cbr\u003enearing the end of his life. We are present at his end. But what\u003cbr\u003ehappens after that is of great interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbandoned \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L'Abandonné. Jules Verne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes—a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions. L'Abandonné, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a serial through the Magasin Illustré of education and recreation, before its issue as a boy's story-book. Its success in both forms seems to have established a record in the race for popularity and a circulation in both the French and English fields of current literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Blockade Runners \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Blockade Runners is a translation of Les forceurs\u003cbr\u003ede blocus (1871). The Blockade Runners, a novella, was included\u003cbr\u003ealong with A Floating City in the first english and french editions\u003cbr\u003eof this work. This translation, which follows that of Sampson and Low\u003cbr\u003e(UK) and Scribners (US) is by \"N. D'Anvers\", pseudonymn for Mrs. Arthur\u003cbr\u003eBell (d. 1933) who also translated other Verne books. It is also\u003cbr\u003eincluded in the fifteen volume Parke edition of the works of Jules\u003cbr\u003eVerne (1911). There is another translation by Henry Frith which was\u003cbr\u003epublished by Routledge (1876).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth of these stories are about ships; Floating City about the\u003cbr\u003elargest ship of the time, the Great Eastern, and Blockade Runners\u003cbr\u003eabout one of the fastest, the Dolphin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Voyages And Adventures Of Captain Hatteras \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To-morrow, at the turn of the tide, the brig Forward, K. Z., captain, Richard Shandon, mate, will clear from New Prince's Docks; destination unknown.\"\u003cbr\u003eThis announcement appeared in the Liverpool Herald of April 5, 1860.\u003cbr\u003eThe sailing of a brig is not a matter of great importance for the chief commercial city of England. Who would take notice of it in so great a throng of ships of all sizes and of every country, that dry-docks covering two leagues scarcely contain them?\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless, from early morning on the 6th of April, a large crowd collected on the quays of the New Prince's Docks; all the sailors of the place seemed to have assembled there. The workingmen of the neighboring wharves had abandoned their tasks, tradesmen had left their gloomy shops, and the merchants their empty warehouses. The many-colored omnibuses which pass outside of the docks were discharging, every minute, their load of sight-seers; the whole city seemed to care for nothing except watching the departure of the Forward.\u003cbr\u003eThe Forward was a vessel of one hundred and seventy tons, rigged as a brig, and carrying a screw and a steam-engine of one hundred and twenty horse-power. One would have very easily confounded it with the other brigs in the harbor. But if it presented no especial difference to the eye of the public, yet those who were familiar with ships noticed certain peculiarities which could not escape a sailor's keen glance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flying Fish","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130869235952,"sku":"9781632952820","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632952820_p0.jpg?v=1763675809","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632952820","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}