Jules Verne bibliography

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[1] and on surrealism,[2] their innovative use of modernist literary techniques such as self-reflexivity,[3] and their complex combination of positivist and romantic ideologies.[4]

Jules Verne, circa 1856

Unless otherwise referenced, the information presented here is derived from the research of Volker Dehs, Jean-Michel Margot, Zvi Har’El,[5] and William Butcher.[6]

Voyages Extraordinaires

1890 Hetzel advertisement

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.[7]

• 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.[8]
• 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

Original French title	Most common English title	Serial	In-18	In-8
Cinq Semaines en ballon	Five Weeks in a Balloon	—	1863	1865
Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras	The Adventures of Captain Hatteras	1864–5	1866	1866
Voyage au centre de la Terre	Journey to the Center of the Earth	—	1864	1867
De la Terre à la Lune	From the Earth to the Moon	1865	1865	1868
Les Enfants du capitaine Grant	In Search of the Castaways	1865–7	1867–8	1868
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	1869–70	1869–70	1871
Autour de la Lune	Around the Moon	1869	1870	1872
Une Ville flottante	A Floating City	1870	1871	1871
Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais	The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa	1871–2	1872	1872
Le Pays des fourrures	The Fur Country	1872–3	1873	1873
Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours	Around the World in Eighty Days	1872	1873	1873
L'Île mystérieuse	The Mysterious Island	1874–5	1874–5	1875
Le Chancellor	The Survivors of the Chancellor	1874–5	1875	1875
Michel Strogoff	Michael Strogoff	1876	1876	1876
Hector Servadac	Off on a Comet	1877	1877	1877
Les Indes noires	The Child of the Cavern	1877	1877	1877
Un Capitaine de quinze ans	Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen	1878	1878	1878
Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum	The Begum's Fortune	1879	1879	1879
Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine	Tribulations of a Chinaman in China	1879	1879	1879
La Maison à vapeur	The Steam House	1879–80	1880	1880
La Jangada	Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon	1881	1881	1881
L'École des Robinsons	Godfrey Morgan	1882	1882	1882
Le Rayon vert	The Green Ray	1882	1882	1882
Kéraban-le-têtu	Kéraban the Inflexible	1883	1883	1883
L'Étoile du sud	The Vanished Diamond	1884	1884	1884
L'Archipel en feu	The Archipelago on Fire	1884	1884	1884
Mathias Sandorf	Mathias Sandorf	1885	1885	1885
Un Billet de loterie	The Lottery Ticket	1886	1886	1886
Robur-le-Conquérant	Robur the Conqueror	1886	1886	1886
Nord contre Sud	North Against South	1887	1887	1887
Le Chemin de France	The Flight to France	1887	1887	1887
Deux Ans de vacances	Two Years' Vacation	1888	1888	1888
Famille-sans-nom	Family Without a Name	1889	1889	1889
Sans dessus dessous	The Purchase of the North Pole	—	1889	1889
César Cascabel	César Cascabel	1890	1890	1890
Mistress Branican	Mistress Branican	1891	1891	1891
Le Château des Carpathes	Carpathian Castle	1892	1892	1892
Claudius Bombarnac	Claudius Bombarnac	1892	1893	1892
P'tit-Bonhomme	Foundling Mick	1893	1893	1893
Mirifiques Aventures de Maître Antifer	Captain Antifer	1894	1894	1894
L'Île à hélice	Propeller Island	1895	1895	1895
Face au drapeau	Facing the Flag	1896	1896	1896
Clovis Dardentor	Clovis Dardentor	1896	1896	1896
Le Sphinx des glaces	An Antarctic Mystery	1897	1897	1897
Le Superbe Orénoque	The Mighty Orinoco	1898	1898	1898
Le Testament d'un excentrique	The Will of an Eccentric	1899	1899	1899
Seconde Patrie	The Castaways of the Flag	1900	1900	1900
Le Village aérien	The Village in the Treetops	1901	1901	1901
Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin	The Sea Serpent	1901	1901	1901
Les Frères Kip	The Kip Brothers	1902	1902	1902
Bourses de voyage	Travel Scholarships	1903	1903	1903
Un Drame en Livonie	A Drama in Livonia	1904	1904	1904
Maître du monde	Master of the World	1904	1904	1904
L'Invasion de la mer	Invasion of the Sea	1905	1905	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.[9]

Original French title	Most common English title	Serial	In-18	In-8
Le Phare du bout du monde	The Lighthouse at the End of the World	1905	1905	1905
Le Volcan d’or	The Golden Volcano	1906	1906	1906
L’Agence Thompson and Co	The Thompson Travel Agency	1907	1907	1907
La Chasse au météore	The Chase of the Golden Meteor	1908	1908	1908
Le Pilote du Danube	The Danube Pilot	1908	1908	1908
Les Naufragés du "Jonathan"	The Survivors of the "Jonathan"	1909	1909	1909
Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz	The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz	1910	1910	1910
L’Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac	The Barsac Mission	1914	1920	1919

Other novels

• Voyage en Angleterre et en Ecosse (Backwards to Britain, 1860, first published 1989)
• Paris au XXe siècle (Paris in the Twentieth Century, 1863, first published 1994)

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" ("Pierre-Jean"; published by Michel Verne in 1910 in heavily altered form as "La destinée de Jean Morénas")
• "Le Mariage de M. Anselme des Tilleuls" ("The Marriage of Mr. Anselme des Tilleuls")
• "San Carlos" ("San Carlos")
• "Le Humbug", 1910. ("The Humbug")
• "Edom" ("Edom," with Michel Verne; published by Michel Verne in 1910 in heavily altered form as L'Éternel Adam)

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)
• Voyage à travers l'impossible (Journey Through the Impossible, 1882)
• Kéraban-le-têtu (Kéraban the Pigheaded, 1883)

Notes

References

1. Roberts 2000, p. 48
2. Hale & Hugill 2000, p. 122
3. Butcher 2006, p. 306
4. Evans 1988, pp. 4, 37–38
5. Dehs, Margot & Har'El 2007
6. Butcher 2006, pp. 313–326
7. Unless otherwise referenced, information in the following bulleted list is adapted from Harpold 2006, 2.
8. Dehs, Margot & Har'El 2007, I
9. Dehs, Margot & Har'El 2007, X

Citations

• Butcher, William (2006), Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Dehs, Volker; Margot, Jean-Michel; Har'El, Zvi (2007), "The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography", Jules Verne Collection, Zvi Har'El, retrieved 19 July 2013
• Evans, Arthur B. (1988), Jules Verne rediscovered: didacticism and the scientific novel, New York: Greenwood Press
• Hale, Terry; Hugill, Andrew (2000), "The Science is Fiction: Jules Verne, Raymond Roussel, and Surrealism", in Smyth, Edmund J. (ed.), Jules Verne: Narratives of Modernity, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press
• Harpold, Terry (2006), "Reading the Illustrations of Jules Verne's Voyages extraordinaires: The Example of Le Superbe Orenoque", ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 3 (1), retrieved 20 July 2013
• Roberts, Adam (2000), Science Fiction, London: Routledge

External links

• The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography with notes and research by leading Verne scholars