The most beautiful edition of the book to date Mysterious Island Jules Verne. Publisher: NIGMA. Gift for readers.

This book is the perfect gift for both children and adults. The drawings can be viewed endlessly, these are real masterpieces of book illustration.

The edition is no less masterpiece than the illustrations.

Five brave northerners flee from the city of Richmond taken by the southerners in a hot air balloon. After a terrible storm, they find themselves on the shore of an uninhabited island. Life on the island becomes a real test of their ingenuity and courage. They manage not only to survive, but also to create a small civilization: they breed livestock, grow wheat from a single grain, produce labor and household items in their own small factories, and even conduct a real telegraph.

However, the island turns out to be not so uninhabited - someone mysterious more than once saves the heroes of the novel from inevitable death.

The book presents an abridged version of the novel (which is good, because full version- this is such a volume that hardly anyone can read today).

Edition illustrated by famous artist Anatoly Itkin, a master of the historical adventure genre, who created illustrations for more than two hundred works of Russian and foreign literature.

If you're looking for the full-text, unabridged edition, there are some good options:

www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/4633285/ - very expensive exclusive edition, illustrations - Gordeev.

www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/5417278/ - both illustrations and full text. Fera, the French respect this artist.

www.labirint.ru/books/375454/- one of the best editions, but it is difficult to get it, it has not been on sale anywhere for a long time

www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/23889436/ - budget and therefore inexpensive, but high-quality publication

www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/1342933/ - the golden fund of world classics, the ACT series, there are also other works, all in one volume of almost a thousand pages

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On December 15, 1875, in the Parisian "Journal of Education and Entertainment", intended for a youth audience, the publication of one of the best novels by the French writer Jules Verne, "The Mysterious Island" (French "L'Île mystérieuse"), ended.

The reader's interest in the magazine edition of this work was invariably maintained for 2 years, since the beginning of the novel was received by subscribers on January 1, 1874. great place the novel occupied a description of chemical processes and technologies ("... it will be a novel about chemistry ..." - wrote Jules Verne in a letter to the publisher), and the author spent a lot of time in chemical factories, consulted with chemists.

The Mysterious Island was published by Etzel in three separate books. The first part is “The Mysterious Island. Crash in the air ”- came out on September 10, 1874, the second -“ The Mysterious Island. Abandoned" - April 12, 1875, and "The Mysterious Island. The secret of the island" - October 28, 1875. On November 22, 1875, an illustrated (152 illustrations by Jules-Descartes Fehr, engraved by Charles Barbant, which some critics consider as the pinnacle of the artist's creative skill) edition of the novel was published. This was the ninth "double" (or rather "triple" in terms of length) volume of Extraordinary Journeys.

“Robinsonades,” recalled Jules Verne in his declining years, “were the books of my childhood, and I have kept an indelible memory of them. I re-read them many times, and this contributed to their imprinting in my memory. Never afterwards, when reading other works, did I experience more impressions of the first years. There is no doubt that my love for this kind of adventure instinctively led me to the road that I followed afterwards. This love made me write "School of Robinsons", "Mysterious Island", "Two Years of Vacation", the characters of which are close relatives of Defoe and Whis. Therefore, no one will be surprised that I devoted myself entirely to writing Extraordinary Journeys. The very word "robinsonade" entered the literature as early as the 18th century, when in many European countries Dozens of books began to appear one after another, written under the influence of Robinson Crusoe (1719), the world-famous novel written by the English writer Daniel Defoe. Robinsonades depicts the vicissitudes of the working life of either one person or a small group of people who find themselves on a desert island. In the 19th century, new examples of "robinsonades" were created mainly by the authors of adventure novels, who developed the adventurous side of the plot due to its ideological content. In contrast, Jules Verne's "Robinsonades" are full of deep social meaning, they are, one might say, philosophical novels, despite the fact that they are intended for young readers.

"The Mysterious Island" - the best of his novels, "robinsonade" - was conceived even before Jules Verne became Jules Verne.

By the beginning of the 60s, an unfinished manuscript dates back - the first still very weak outline of the subsequently famous book. On the title page is printed in large letters: "Uncle Robinson".

A certain Mrs. Clifton and her four children - Marie, Robert, Jean and Bella - are thrown by a storm on a desert island in the North Pacific Ocean. Their fate is shared by the experienced French sailor Flip, who led a small colony. The children call him "Uncle Robinson". A few days later, Mr. Clifton also finds his family, who miraculously escaped on the same island along with his faithful dog Fido. Clifton is a skilled engineer. He produces fire, makes gunpowder, methodically cultivates this wild corner of the earth, in every possible way improving the living conditions of the colonists.

In the future, many characters and episodes will be transferred in a modified form to the pages of the Mysterious Island. Engineer Clifton will turn into Cyrus Smith, sailor Flip into Pencroff, Robert Clifton into Herbert Brown. Even the dog Fido will operate there under a different nickname, and the island itself, with all its flora and fauna, up to the orangutan, will be transferred to the South Pacific.

Ten years later, shortly before moving to Amiens, Jules Verne set about to write a novel about the amazing results of the labor activity of a small group of people who found themselves on a desert island. He decided to take the manuscript of "Uncle Robinson" as a basis, but Etzel, having familiarized himself with the "pale Robinsonade", rejected it without any condescension:

I advise you to quit all this and start over, otherwise it will be a complete failure.
- And yet here is the grain of the novel! Jules Verne answered confidently.

But the "seed" could not germinate for a long time. The plot didn't really develop. In the meantime, "in between times", he managed to write a brilliant novel "Around the World in Eighty Days", and what he considered his main business - "robinsonade" - was still not given.

While he pondered and rejected options, readers continued to send letters asking him to resurrect Captain Nemo and reveal his secret, not solved by Professor Aronnax in the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. And when one day the writer decided to return to the story of Nemo, and at the same time also connect the storylines of the new "Robinsonade" with the "Children of Captain Grant", the plan finally matured, and he immediately set to work.

In February 1873, Jules Verne told the publisher: “I gave myself all over to Robinson, or rather, to the Mysterious Island. I roll like I'm on wheels. I meet chemistry professors, I go to chemical factories and every time I come back with stains on my clothes, which I will attribute to you, because "The Mysterious Island" will be a novel about chemistry. I try in every possible way to increase interest in the mysterious stay of Captain Nemo on the island in order to gradually prepare a crescendo ... "" Nemchinova Natalia.

Unlike the classic book by Daniel Defoe, the nameless, uninhabited island becomes the home not of a lone hero, but of a whole group of Americans:

Neb (Nebuchadnezzar) is a former slave, and now a devoted servant of Cyrus Smith. Knows a lot about blacksmithing. Was a cook in a granite palace;

Gideon Spilett is a military journalist and friend of Smith, a very energetic and resolute person with an ebullient mind. Besides, a passionate hunter;

Bonaventure Pencroft is a sailor, a good-natured person and an enterprising daredevil. As usual with sailors, a jack of all trades. Heavy smoker;.
Herbert (Harbert) Brown is the fifteen-year-old son of the captain of the ship on which Pencroff sailed, left an orphan. The sailor treats him like his own son. The young man showed deep knowledge in the natural sciences;

as well as Top - Cyrus Smith's faithful dog.
Subsequently, they were joined by:

Jup (Jupiter) - an orangutan, tamed during the invasion of monkeys on the Granite Palace, who became a friend, servant and indispensable assistant to people;

Ayrton is the sixth colonist brought by Spilett, Pencroft and Herbert from a trip to Tabor Island. At first, it was a wild creature that lost its mind. Then, after the mind returned to him, he was constantly tormented by a guilt complex for what he had done earlier, because of which he settled in the corral.

Summary

Caught in the slave-owning South during the American Civil War, the daredevils fled in a balloon from Richmond, besieged by the northerners, hoping to join the fighters against slavery. This happened on March 23, 1865. However, caught in a hurricane, these people, along with their dog Top, are very far from their goal. Courageous, skillful and hardworking, also guarded by some mysterious and powerful assistant, they spend 4 whole years on the island named after President Lincoln and create their own world:
plow the land, build a pottery workshop,
breed cattle, smelt iron,
building a mill
hydraulic lift,
telegraph

and other "miracles" of technology,
along the way, protecting your island from the sailing pirates.

Soon, thanks to their industriousness and intelligence, the colonists no longer know the need for food, clothing, or warmth and comfort. They have everything except news about their homeland, about the fate of which they are very worried. As the reviewer of one of the old Russian newspapers rightly noted, "this novel, so to speak, from the perspective - the history of European civilization in connection with the history of the development of science."

Eventually, they find a mysterious patron who turns out to be Captain Nemo, who subsequently dies aboard his submarine wonder boat, the Nautilus.

One day, on June 22, 1867, these three people, who knew nothing about Captain Nemo's past, managed to escape by taking possession of one of the boats of the Nautilus.
If you remember the beginning, then the heroes rushed from Richmond in 1865. It turns out that Smith and Spillett somehow telepathically got acquainted with the work of the valiant Aronax. And this is with an acute predilection for describing all kinds of curlicues, knick-knacks and other “magnificent decorations” ...

The volcanic eruption that has begun practically destroys the island, but our heroes depart for their homeland, having met the Duncan yacht, under the command of Captain Robert Grant, who read the note found in Ayrton's former hut on Tabor Island (nemo left it there shortly before his death). Thus "The Mysterious Island" completed the famous trilogy of Jules Verne, begun by "The Children of Captain Grant" (1867) and continued by the book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1869).

Mysterious Island (Illustrations by P. Lugansky) Verne Jules

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Table of contents

• FOREWORD
• PART ONE THE CRASHED CHAPTER ONE The hurricane of 1865. - Screams in the air. - Balloon. - Torn shell. - Around the water. - Five passengers. - What happened in the gondola. - Earth on the horizon. - Interchange.
• CHAPTER TWO An episode from the Negro Liberation War. - Engineer Cyrus Smith. - Gideon Spilett. - Negro Nab. - Sailor Pencroft. - Young Herbert. - Unexpected offer. - Appointment at 10 pm. - Flight into the storm.
• CHAPTER THREE Five o'clock in the afternoon. - Missing passenger. - Nab's despair. - Search in the north. - Islet. - An exhausting night. - Fog. - Neb rushes into the stream. - View from the ground. - Crossing the Strait ford.
• CHAPTER FOUR Lithodomes. - Mouth of the river. - Fireplace. - Continuation of the search. - Fuel supply. - Waiting for low tide. - A load of firewood. - Return to shore.
• CHAPTER SIX Inventory of property. - Trut. - Excursion to the forest. - Evergreen trees. - Traces of wild animals. - Yacamara. - Capercaillie. - Extraordinary fishing rod.
• CHAPTER SEVEN Neb hasn't returned yet. - Reflections of a journalist. - Dinner. - The weather is getting worse again. - Terrible storm. - Eight miles from camp.
• CHAPTER EIGHT Is Cyrus Smith Alive? - Nab's story, - Footprints. - An unsolvable question. - First words. - Comparison of traces. - Return to the Fireplace. - Pencroff is horrified.
• CHAPTER NINE Cyrus is with us! - Experiments of Pencroff. - Island or continent? - Engineer's projects. - In the Pacific Ocean. - In the depths of the forest. - Capybara hunting. - Nice smoke.
• CHAPTER TEN The invention of an engineer. - A question that preoccupies Cyrus Smith. - Mountain climbing. - Forest. - Volcanic soil. - Mouflons. - First tier. - Overnight stay. - On the top of the mountain.
• CHAPTER ELEVEN At the top of the mountain. - The interior of the crater. - Sea around. - The coast from a bird's eye view. - Water system. - Is the island inhabited? - All parts of the island get names. - Lincoln Island.
• CHAPTER TWELVE Checking the clock. - Pencroft is satisfied. - Suspicious smoke. - The course of the Red Creek. - Island flora. - Fauna. - Mountain pheasants. - Chasing kangaroos. - Lake Grant. - Return to the Fireplace.
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Knives. - Manufacture of bows and arrows. - Brickworks. - Clay kiln. - Kitchenware. - Wormwood. - South Cross. - An important astronomical observation.
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN The height of the granite wall. - Practical application of the triangle similarity theorem. - Excursion to the north. - Oyster shallow. - Future plans. - The passage of the sun through the meridian. - Latitude and longitude of Lincoln Island.
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN Wintering is finally settled. - A question about metal. - Exploration of the island of Salvation. - Hunting for seals. - Catalan way. - Iron. - Steel.
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN Again there is the question of housing. - Pencroff's fantasy. - Exploration of the northern shore of the lake. - Northern tip of the plateau. - Snakes. - Top's excitement. - Fight under water. - Manatee.
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Visiting the lake. - Current. - Project by Cyrus Smith. - Manatee fat. - The use of sulfur pyrites. - Soap. - Saltpeter. - Sulfuric acid. - Nitric acid. - New stock.
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Pencroff no longer doubts anything. - The old drain of the lake. - Descent into the dungeon. - Path through granite. - The top disappears. - Central cave. - Well. - Mystery. - Pickaxe strikes. - Return.
• CHAPTER NINETEEN Cyrus Smith's plan. - Facade of the Granite Palace. - Rope-ladder. - Dreams of Pencroff. - Aromatic herbs. - Rabbit garden. - Water pipes. - View from the windows of the Granite Palace.
• CHAPTER TWENTY Rainy season. - A question about clothes. - Hunting for seals. - Making candles. - Interior equipment of the Granite Palace. - Two bridges. - Return from the oyster bank. - What Herbert found in his pocket.
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Cold. - Exploration of swamps in the southeastern part of the island. - Jackal foxes. - The future of the Pacific. - The work of corals. - Hunting. - Swamp of the Goose.
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Traps. - Foxes. - Northwest wind. - Blizzard. - Deck. - Sugar refining. - Mysterious well. - Intelligence plans. - Drobinka.
• PART TWO ABANDONED CHAPTER ONE About the pellet. - Building a pirogue. - Hunting. - At the top of the kauri. - No trace of a person. - Fishing. - Upside down turtle. - Disappearance of the turtle. — Cyrus Smith's explanation.
• CHAPTER TWO The first test of pies. - Find. - Tugboat. - Cape Nakhodka. - What was in the box: tackle, utensils, weapons, tools, clothes, books. - What lacked Pencroff.
• CHAPTER THREE Departure. - Tide. - Various plants. - Yacamara. - Types of forest. - Giant eucalyptus trees. - Why are they called "fever trees". - Flocks of monkeys. - Waterfall. - Camp.
• CHAPTER FOUR The way to the west. - Flocks of four-armed. - A new stream. - Forest instead of shore. - Cape Reptiles. - Herbert is jealous of Gideon Spilett. - Bamboo grove.
• CHAPTER FIVE Proposal to return back along the southern coast. - Outlines of the shore. - Search for traces of the alleged crash. - The remains of the balloon. - Finding a natural port. - At midnight on the banks of the Gratitude River. - Floating with the flow of the pie.
• CHAPTER SIX Pencroff screams. - A night spent in the Fireplace. - Herbert's Arrow. - Cyrus Smith's suggestion. - An unexpected exit. - What happened in the Granite Palace. - How the colonists found the servant.
• CHAPTER SEVEN Plans for the next work. - Bridge over river. - Drawbridge. - Wheat harvest. - Brook. - Bridges. - Bird yard. - Dovecote. - Two onagers. - Harness. - Trip to the port of Shara.
• CHAPTER EIGHT - Shoes made of sealskin. - Production of pyroxylin. - Sowing. - Good luck Mr Jupe. - Coral. - Raid on mouflons. - New plants and birds.
• CHAPTER NINE The weather is getting worse. - Hydraulic lift. - Window glass and glassware. - Frequent visits of the king. - Livestock growth. - A question from a journalist. - The exact location of the island. - Pencroff's suggestion.
• CHAPTER TEN Construction of the ship. - Second harvest. - A new plant, more pleasant than useful. - Keith. - Harpoon. - Carcass cutting. - The use of whalebone. - The end of May. “Pencroff has nothing more to wish for.
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Winter. - Mill. - Pencroff's obsession. - Whalebone. - Fuel of the future. - Top and Jupe. - Storms. - Destruction in the poultry yard. - Excursion to the swamp. - Cyrus Smith remains alone. - Study of the well.
• CHAPTER TWELVE Equipment of the vessel. - Attack of jackal foxes. - Jupe is injured. - Yupa is being treated. - Jupe is recovering. - Completion of the construction of the vessel. - The celebration of Pencroff. - "Prosperous." - The first sample of the vessel. - An unexpected letter.
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Departure decided. - Offers. - Fees. - First night. - Second night. - Tabor Island. - Searches on the shore. - Searches in the forest. - Animals. - Plants. - House.
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Inventory of property. - Night. - Several letters. - Continuation of the search. - Plants and animals. - Herbert is in danger. - On board the "Prosperous". - Departure. - The weather is getting worse. - Sailor's instinct. - Lost in the ocean. - Saving light.
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN Return. - Dispute. - Cyrus Smith and unknown. - Port of Shara. - Treatment. - Exciting challenges. - Tears.
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN An unrevealed secret. - The first words of a stranger. - Twelve years on the island. - Recognition. - Disappearance. - Cyrus Smith is full of confidence. - Building a mill. - First bread. - Heroic deed. - Honest hands.
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Conversation. - Cyrus Smith and Gideon Spilett. - Engineer's idea. - Telegraph. - Wires. - Battery. - Alphabet. - Summer. - Prosperity of the colony. - Two years on Lincoln Island.
• CHAPTER NINETEEN Views of the future. - Coastal Survey Plans. - View from the sea to the Snake Peninsula. - Basalt rocks on the west coast. - Bad weather. - The onset of night. - New incident.
• CHAPTER TWENTY Night at sea. - Shark Bay. - Confessions. - Preparing for winter. - Early cold. - Frost. - Works inside the house. - In six months. - An unexpected incident.
• PART THREE THE MYSTERY OF THE ISLAND CHAPTER ONE Doom or Salvation? - Ayrton's call. - An important meeting. - It's not Duncan. - Suspicious ship. - Cannon shot. - The brig is anchoring. - The onset of night.
• CHAPTER TWO Military Council. - Premonitions. - Ayrton's proposal. - Ayrton and Pencroff on Salvation Island. - Norfolk convicts. - Their plans. - Ayrton's feat. - Six against fifty.
• CHAPTER THREE The fog is rising. - The intention of the engineer. - Three posts. - Ayrton and Pencroff. - The first boat. - Two others. - On the island of Salvation. - Six convicts landed on the shore. - The brig raises the anchor. - Nuclei "Fast". - A hopeless situation. - Unexpected denouement.
• CHAPTER FOUR The colonists descend on the shore. - Ayrton and Pencroft are engaged in rescue work. - Breakfast session. - Pencroff's reasoning. - Inspection of the hull of the brig. - The powder cellar is intact. - New wealth. - The last wreckage. - Fragment of the cylinder.
• CHAPTER FIVE Cyrus Smith's Statement. - Grandiose plans of Pencroff. - Air battery. - Pirates. - Ayrton oscillations. - The generosity of an engineer. - Pencroft reluctantly surrenders.
• CHAPTER SIX The plan of the expedition. - Ayrton returns to the king. - Visit to the port of Shara. — Pencroff's opinion. - Telegram. Ayrton doesn't answer. - Departure. Why didn't the telegraph work? - Shot.
• CHAPTER SEVEN The journalist and Pencroft in the corral. - Herbert is carried into the house. - Despair sailor. - Treatment. - Pirates reappear. - How to warn Naba? - Faithful dog. - Nab's answer.
• CHAPTER EIGHT Pirates roam around the corral. - Temporary shelter. - Continuation of Herbert's treatment. - Pencroff's first joy. - Memories. - What does the future hold. - Cyrus Smith's thoughts on this.
• CHAPTER NINE No news from Nab. - The proposal of the sailor and the journalist is rejected. - Sally of Gideon Spilett. - A piece of cloth. - Message. - Hasty departure. - Arrival at the plateau of the Distant View.
• CHAPTER TEN Herbert in the Granite Palace. - Neb tells about the events. - Cyrus Smith inspects the plateau. - Destruction and devastation. - Colonists cannot fight disease. - Willow bark. - Deadly fever. Top is barking again.
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Another inexplicable riddle. - Herbert's recovery. - Unexplored parts of the island. - Preparing to leave. - First day. - Night. - Second day. - Footprints in the forest. - Arrival at Cape Reptiles.
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Ayrton's story. - The plans of the pirates. - Capture of the coral. - Judge of Lincoln Island. - "Prosperous." - Search on Mount Franklin. - Underground noise. — Pencroff's answer. - In the depths of the crater. - Return.
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Three years have passed. - The question of building a new ship. - The decision was made. - Prosperity of the colony. - Cold in the Southern Hemisphere. - Pencroft submits. - Laundry. - Mount Franklin.
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN The awakening of the volcano. - Spring. - Resumption of work. - Evening October 15th. - Telegram. - Question. - Answer. - Hurry to the corral! - A note. - Additional wire. - Basalt coast. - Tide. - Low tide. - Cave. - Dazzling light.
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN Captain Nemo. - His first words. - The history of the fighter for independence. - Hatred of the oppressors. - His comrades. - Life under water. - Loneliness. - The last refuge of the Nautilus. - Patron of the island.
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Captain Nemo's last hours. - The last will of the dying. - A gift to friends who only knew him for a day. - The coffin of Captain Nemo. - A few tips for the colonists. - Last minutes. - At the bottom of the ocean.
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Reflections of the colonists. - The resumption of work on the construction of the ship. - January 1, 1869. - Smoke over the top of the volcano. - Harbingers of an eruption. - Ayrton and Cyrus Smith in the king. - Exploration of the Dakkara cave. - What Captain Nemo said to the engineer.
• CHAPTER TWENTY A solitary rock in the Pacific Ocean. - The last refuge of the colonists of Lincoln Island. - Imminent death in perspective. - Last blessing. - An island on a continent. - Monument to Captain Nemo.

FOREWORD

In 1872, the world-famous writer Jules Verne, who was at the very peak of his fame and in full creative bloom, had just been awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor, suddenly left the “city of light” Paris and moved forever to the quiet provincial Amiens.

The whole way of his life has changed dramatically. Until recently, his mansion in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil was a meeting place for scientists, inventors, engineers, geographers, travelers, and even members of the International. Now in Amiens, his house, separated from the street by a large garden and surrounded by a high stone wall, became something of a fortress, where a rare visitor could enter only by ringing a large brass bell at the main entrance.

But this, as it were, was not enough for the writer. He even fenced himself off from his house, arranging his office in a secluded stone tower.

The very character of Jules Verne has also changed. He became gloomy, unsociable; " polar bear standing up on its hind legs” – this is how he described himself. He hardly met people, spent the whole day in hard work and left the house only for a walk and for meetings of the Amiens Academy - the oldest scientific society of Picardy, of which he was a full member.

Moreover, this relocation to the provinces left an imprint on all his work: dark shadows lay on the pages of his books, so optimistic so far. Science fiction receded into the background, and social and historical novels took its place.

What made the merry fellow and joker Jules Verne almost a misanthrope? What event happened in 1871 and what kind of shadow fell on the entire second half of the writer's life?

... On the morning of March 28, 1871, Paris woke up in the bright radiance of the sun. Banners fluttered in the streets and an ocean of people under arms moved. On the poles of the banners were red Phrygian caps, symbolizing freedom, and the soldiers' guns were decorated with red ribbons.

Drums beat deafly, especially the beat of two large drums of Montmartre stood out - those that sounded the alarm on the night of the Germans' entry into the capital and on the morning of March 18 - the day of the uprising of the proletariat - woke the Parisians.

Then, the elected representatives of the people, members of the Council of the Commune, came out to the stands built on the Place Greve in front of the building of the Paris City Council to assume the power transferred to them by the Commune of the city of Paris. Horns played as they swore allegiance to the people. The heavy roar of the cannons greeted the revolution. There were no speeches, only the cry: “Long live the Commune!”, Yes, the Marseillaise, like a bird, flew over Paris ...

It was a completely new Paris, where it seemed that all the dreams of the young Jules Verne were to come true - dreams that he harbored in himself for twenty years of the Napoleonic empire. It was the world's first state of the proletarian dictatorship - the realization of the hopes and the goal of the life of his friends: Pascal Grousset, Eliza Reclus, Louise Michel.

That summer, Pascal Grousset assumed a leadership role in the new government. He was the delegate of external relations, that is, he was in charge of all the foreign affairs of the Commune.

Elisé Reclus, who denied all power in general and was true to his convictions, refused to be a delegate to the Commune. But he was faithful to her to the end: at first he helped organize an aeronautical park, and then he fought like a simple soldier with the Versailles.

Louise Michel from the very first day became an ordinary fighter of the Commune - in a soldier's uniform, with a gun in her hands.

But the Commune lasted only 72 days. The dark days of France have come.

Ashes flew over Paris, as if after an eruption. The building of the City Duma, where the Commune of the city of Paris had so recently been solemnly proclaimed under the morning sun, was burning down.

The orgy of open murders, carried out by blood-drunk soldiers who mowed down the people like grass, ended, but death continued its work, dressed in a judicial mantle. Officially, the number of victims of the Versailles massacre was estimated at thirty-five thousand people, but one hundred thousand Parisian workers disappeared without a trace from their apartments these days.

The Paris Academy stopped working, but countless restaurants opened, where officers in gilded uniforms reveled with beauties in lace.

Elise Reclus, taken prisoner with weapons in hand, was tied up and taken into custody. As he was being led along the street, a well-dressed gentleman ran up to him and gave the great geographer a terrible blow on the head, from which he lost consciousness. Reclus recognized in him one of the members of the Geographical Society - the same one whose secretary was the great humanist Paganel, the hero of the novel "The Children of Captain Grant."

The court sentenced Reclus to life imprisonment. In a prison cell, shackled, he worked on the second volume of his world-famous book "Earth" ...

Pascal Grousset, as one of the leaders of the Commune, and Louise Michel were sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment.

Jules Verne wandered through the deserted Paris, and Parisian ashes rained down on him. The skeleton of the City Duma looked at him with blind broken windows. He did not want to be a writer anymore, he was ready to return to the Exchange or even put on the mantle of a lawyer, but he was forty-three years old and did not have the strength to start new life…

There is no doubt that it was during these days that the plan to leave Paris forever was born and took on real shape in the writer’s soul: it was an internal emigration from the “republic” of Thiers, which turned out to be even more reactionary than the empire of Napoleon III.

In 1872, immediately after moving to Amiens, Jules Verne began work on the huge novel The Mysterious Island, which, together with the novel The Children of Captain Grant and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, made up a trilogy.