Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Most famous for his novel sequence, the Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne also wrote assorted short stories, plays, miscellaneous novels, essays, and poetry. His works are notable for their profound influence on science fiction and on surrealism, their innovative use of modernist literary techniques such as self-reflexivity, and their complex combination of positivist and romantic ideologies.

Unless otherwise referenced, the information presented here is derived from the research of Volker Dehs, Jean-Michel Margot, Zvi Har’El, and William Butcher.

Voyages Extraordinaires

Three publication dates for each book are given because, in the system developed by Pierre-Jules Hetzel for the Voyages Extraordinaires, each of Verne's novels was published successively in several different formats. This resulted in several distinct editions of each texts, as follows.Unless otherwise referenced, information in the following bulleted list is adapted from . Serial (known as éditions pré-originales, pre-original editions): Serialization in a periodical, usually Hetzel's own biweekly Magasin d'Éducation et de récréation ("Magazine of Education and Recreation", founded 1864). The serialized installments were illustrated by artists on Hetzel's staff, such as Édouard Riou, Léon Benett, and George Roux. In-18 (éditions originales, original editions): complete unillustrated texts published in book form at in-18 (18mo) size. (Similar versions in the slightly larger 12mo size, with illustrations taken from the serialization, are also considered éditions originales.) This edition is almost always the first book-format printing; the one exception is Claudius Bombarnac, which was first published in a grand-in-8º edition. In-8 (cartonnages dorés et colorés, gilded and colored bindings): Complete editions of the text, published in grand in-8º ("large octavo") book form with a lavishly decorated cover. These deluxe editions, designed for Christmas and New Year's markets, include most or all of the illustrations from the serializations. Published in Verne's lifetime Serial Year French title Year English title Year — Cinq Semaines en ballon 1863 Five Weeks in a Balloon 1865 1864–65 Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras 1866 1866 — Voyage au centre de la Terre 1864 Journey to the Center of the Earth 1867 1865 De la Terre à la Lune 1865 From the Earth to the Moon 1868 1865–67 Les Enfants du capitaine Grant 1867–68 In Search of the Castaways 1868 1869–70 Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers 1869–70 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas 1871 1869 Autour de la Lune 1870 Around the Moon 1872 1870 Une Ville flottante 1871 1871 1871–72 Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais 1872 1872 1872–73 Le Pays des fourrures 1873 1873 1872 Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours 1873 Around the World in Eighty Days 1873 1874–75 L'Île mystérieuse 1874–75 1875 1874–75 Le Chancellor 1875 1875 1876 Michel Strogoff 1876 Michael Strogoff 1876 1877 Hector Servadac 1877 Off on a Comet 1877 1877 Les Indes noires 1877 1877 1878 Un Capitaine de quinze ans 1878 Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen 1878 1879 Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum 1879 1879 1879 Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine 1879 Tribulations of a Chinaman in China 1879 1879–80 La Maison à vapeur 1880 1880 1881 La Jangada 1881 The Giant Raft 1881 1882 L'École des Robinsons 1882 Godfrey Morgan 1882 1882 Le Rayon vert 1882 1882 1883 Kéraban-le-têtu 1883 Kéraban the Inflexible 1883 1884 L'Étoile du sud 1884 1884 1884 L'Archipel en feu 1884 1884 1885 Mathias Sandorf 1885 Mathias Sandorf 1885 1886 Un Billet de loterie 1886 1886 1886 Robur-le-Conquérant 1886 Robur the Conqueror aka The Clipper of the Clouds 1886 1887 Nord contre Sud 1887 North Against South 1887 1887 Le Chemin de France 1887 1887 1888 Deux Ans de vacances 1888 Two Years' Vacation 1888 1889 Famille-sans-nom 1889 Family Without a Name 1889 — Sans dessus dessous 1889 1889 1890 César Cascabel 1890 César Cascabel 1890 1891 Mistress Branican 1891 Mistress Branican 1891 1892 Le Château des Carpathes 1892 Carpathian Castle 1892 1892 Claudius Bombarnac 1893 Claudius Bombarnac 1892 1893 P'tit-Bonhomme 1893 Foundling Mick 1893 1894 Mirifiques Aventures de Maître Antifer 1894 Captain Antifer 1894 1895 L'Île à hélice 1895 Propeller Island 1895 1896 Face au drapeau 1896 Facing the Flag 1896 1896 Clovis Dardentor 1896 Clovis Dardentor 1896 1897 Le Sphinx des glaces 1897 1897 1898 Le Superbe Orénoque 1898 1898 1899 Le Testament d'un excentrique 1899 1899 1900 Seconde Patrie 1900 1900 1901 Le Village aérien 1901 1901 1901 Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin 1901 1901 1902 Les Frères Kip 1902 1902 1903 Bourses de voyage 1903 Travel Scholarships 1903 1904 Un Drame en Livonie 1904 1904 1904 Maître du monde 1904 Master of the World 1904 1905 L'Invasion de la mer 1905 Invasion of the Sea 1905

Posthumous additions

The posthumously published volumes in the Voyages Extraordinaires were extensively altered, and in some cases entirely written, by Verne's son Michel. The original versions of the novels were published later by the Jules Verne Society in 1985 and 1999 with their original titles. Original Manuscript publication Year Original French title Year English title Year Edited and Altered 1999 Le Phare du bout du monde 1905 The Lighthouse at the End of the World 1905 1989 Le Volcan d’or 1906 The Golden Volcano 1906 1986 La Chasse au météore 1908 The Chase of the Golden Meteor 1908 1988 Le Beau Danube Jaune 1908 The Danube Pilot (The Beautiful Yellow Danube) 1908 1985 (Limited) 1987 En Magellanie 2002 The Survivors of the "Jonathan" 1909 1999 Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz 2011 The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz 1910 1991 Voyage d'études (unfinished) 1920 The Barsac Mission 1919

Other novels Published in Verne's lifetime (The Wreck of the "Cynthia", 1885, with André Laurie)

Posthumously published Jédédias Jamet or the story of a succession (1847) - unfinished (published in 1993) Un prêtre en 1839 (A Priest in 1839, 1845-1848, first published 1992, unfinished) Voyage en Angleterre et en Ecosse (Backwards to Britain, 1860, first published 1989) Joyeuses Misères de trois voyageurs en Scandinavie (The Joyous Miseries of 3 Travellers in Scandinavia) (1861) - unfinished, published in 2003 Paris au XXe siècle (Paris in the Twentieth Century, 1863, first published 1994) L'Oncle Robinson (Uncle Robinson (c.1869-70) - draft for The Mysterious Island published in 1991 by Cherche-Midi Éditeur

Short stories Published in Verne's lifetime "Un drame au Mexique" ("A Drama in Mexico," originally published as "Les premiers navires de la marine mexicaine," 1851) "Un drame dans les airs" ("A Drama in the Air," originally published as "Un voyage en ballon," 1851) "Martin Paz" ("Martin Paz," 1852) "Maître Zacharius" ("Master Zacharius," 1854) "Un hivernage dans les glaces" ("A Winter Amid the Ice," 1855) "Le Comte de Chanteleine" ("The Count of Chanteleine", 1864) "Les Forceurs de blocus" ("The Blockade Runners", 1871) "Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox" ("Dr. Ox's Experiment," 1872) "Une ville idéale" ("An Ideal Town," 1875) "Les révoltés de la Bounty ("The Mutineers of the Bounty," 1879, with Gabriel Marcel) "Dix heures en chasse" ("Ten Hours Hunting," 1881) "Frritt-Flacc" ("Frritt-Flacc," 1884) "Gil Braltar" ("Gil Braltar," 1887) "La Journée d’un journaliste américain en 2890" (1891, based on the 1889 short story "In the Year 2889" by Michel Verne) "Aventures de la famille Raton" ("Adventures of the Rat Family," 1891) "Monsieur Ré-Dièze et Mademoiselle Mi-Bémol" ("Mr. Re Sharp and Miss Mi Flat," 1893)

Posthumously published "Pierre-Jean" (c. 1852) published in 1988 (La Manufacture) "Le Mariage de M. Anselme des Tilleuls" ("The Marriage of Mr. Anselme des Tilleuls," c. 1855) published in 1982. "Le Siège de Rome" ("The Siege of Rome," c.1854) published in 1993 "San Carlos" (c. 1856) published in 1993 "Le Humbug" ("The Humbug", c. 1870) published in 1985 "Edom" ("Edom") published by Michel Verne in heavily altered form as L'Éternel Adam ("The Eternal Adam") in 1910; original version (by Jules Verne alone) published in 1991

Nonfiction books Géographie illustrée de la France et de ses colonies (Illustrated Geography of France and its Colonies, 1866–68, with Théophile Lavallée) Découverte de la Terre: Histoire générale des grands voyages et des grands voyageurs (Discovery of the Earth, 1870–80, with Gabriel Marcel) Grands Navigateurs du XVIIIe siècle (Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century) Les voyageurs du XIXe siècle

Essays "Portraits d'artistes. XVIII" ("Portraits of Artists: XVIII," 1857) "Salon de 1857" ("Salon of 1857," series of seven articles, 1857) "A propos du Géant" ("About the Géant," 1863) "Edgar Poe et ses œuvres" ("Edgar Allan Poe and his Works," 1864) "Les méridiens et le calendrier" ("The Meridians and the Calendar," 1873) "24 minutes en ballon" ("24 Minutes in a Balloon," 1873) "Note pour l’affaire J. Verne contre Pont Jest" ("Note for the case J. Verne v. Pont Jest", 1876) "Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse" ("Memories of Childhood and Youth," 1890)

Plays Les Pailles rompues (The Broken Straws, 1850) Monna Lisa (Mona Lisa, 1852) Le Colin-Maillard (Blind Man's Buff, 1853, with Michel Carré and Aristide Hignard) Un Fils adoptif (The Adoptive Son, 1853, with Charles Wallut) Les Compagnons de la Marjolaine (Knights of the Daffodil, 1855, with Carré and Hignard) Monsieur de Chimpanzé (Mr. Chimpanzee, 1858, with Carré and Hignard) L’Auberge des Ardennes (The Inn in the Ardennes, 1860, with Carré and Hignard) Onze jours de siège (Eleven Days' Siege, 1861, with Wallut and Victorien Sardou) Un neveu d’Amérique (A Nephew from America, 1873, with Wallut and Édouard Cadol) Le Tour du monde en 80 jours (Around the World in 80 Days, 1874, with Adolphe d'Ennery) Les Enfants du capitaine Grant (The Children of Captain Grant, 1878, with d'Ennery) Michel Strogoff (Michael Strogoff, 1880, with d'Ennery) Voyage à travers l'impossible (Journey Through the Impossible, 1882) Kéraban-le-têtu (Kéraban the Pigheaded, 1883) Mathias Sandorf (Mathias Sandorf, 1887, with William Busnach)

References Notes

Sources

External links The Complete Jules Verne Bibliographywith notes and research by leading Verne scholars