The Adventures Of Three Englishmen And Three Russians in Southern Africa And Fourteen Stories

Jules Verne, French author, was born at Nantes, France, in 1828, and died in 1905. In 1850 he wrote a comedy in verse, but he eventually confined himself to the writing of scientific and geographical romances, achieving a great reputation. He visited the United States in 1867, sailing for New York on the Great Eastern, and his book, A Floating City, was the result of this voyage. His best-known books are: A Captain at Fifteen, A Two Years' Vacation, A Voyage to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Tour of the World in Eighty Days (1873), Michael Strogoff (1876), Mrs. Branica (1891), Clovis Dordentor (1896), The Brothers Kip (1902). and Most of his works have been translated into English.

This book contains his novels and short stories 15 works.

1, The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in Southern Africa  (1872)      

2. Hector Servadac (1877)

3. The Green Ray (1882, first published in English 1883)

4. Around the World in Eighty Days (by Jules Verne, translated by George Makepeace Towle (August 27, 1841, Washington, D.C. August 9, 1893, Brookline, Massachusetts) James Osgood, Boston: 1873, reprinted by Sampson Low. URLhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Makepeace_Towle

5. The Master of the World (1904, first published in English 1914)

6. Robur the Conqueror (1886, first published in English 1887)

7. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863, first published in English 1869)

8. Mathias Sandorf (1886)

9. Caesar Cascabel (1890)

10. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)

11."A Drama in Mexico" (July 1851, transl. 1876)

12."A Drama in the Air" (August 1851, transl. 1876)

13."The Blockade Runners" (1865, transl. 1874)

14."The Mutineers of the Bounty" (1879, transl. 1879)

15."Frritt-Flacc" (1884, transl. 1892)

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