The Blockade Runners (Illustrated)

The Blockade Runners is a translation of Les forceurs

de blocus (1871). The Blockade Runners, a novella, was included

along with A Floating City in the first english and french editions

of this work. This translation, which follows that of Sampson and Low

(UK) and Scribners (US) is by "N. D'Anvers", pseudonymn for Mrs. Arthur

Bell (d. 1933) who also translated other Verne books. It is also

included in the fifteen volume Parke edition of the works of Jules

Verne (1911). There is another translation by Henry Frith which was

published by Routledge (1876).

Both of these stories are about ships; Floating City about the

largest ship of the time, the Great Eastern, and Blockade Runners

about one of the fastest, the Dolphin.