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

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

Serial YearFrench titleYearEnglish titleYear
Cinq Semaines en ballon1863Five Weeks in a Balloon1865
1864–5Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras1866The Adventures of Captain Hatteras1866
Voyage au centre de la Terre1864Journey to the Center of the Earth1867
1865De la Terre à la Lune1865From the Earth to the Moon1868
1865–7Les Enfants du capitaine Grant1867–8In Search of the Castaways1868
1869–70Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers1869–70Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea1871
1869Autour de la Lune1870Around the Moon1872
1870Une Ville flottante1871A Floating City1871
1871–2Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais1872The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa1872
1872–3Le Pays des fourrures1873The Fur Country1873
1872Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours1873Around the World in Eighty Days1873
1874–5L'Île mystérieuse1874–5The Mysterious Island1875
1874–5Le Chancellor1875The Survivors of the Chancellor1875
1876Michel Strogoff1876Michael Strogoff1876
1877Hector Servadac1877Off on a Comet1877
1877Les Indes noires1877The Child of the Cavern1877
1878Un Capitaine de quinze ans1878Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen1878
1879Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum1879The Begum's Fortune1879
1879Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine1879Tribulations of a Chinaman in China1879
1879–80La Maison à vapeur1880The Steam House1880
1881La Jangada1881Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon1881
1882L'École des Robinsons1882Godfrey Morgan1882
1882Le Rayon vert1882The Green Ray1882
1883Kéraban-le-têtu1883Kéraban the Inflexible1883
1884L'Étoile du sud1884The Vanished Diamond1884
1884L'Archipel en feu1884The Archipelago on Fire1884
1885Mathias Sandorf1885Mathias Sandorf1885
1886Un Billet de loterie1886The Lottery Ticket1886
1886Robur-le-Conquérant1886Robur the Conqueror1886
1887Nord contre Sud1887North Against South1887
1887Le Chemin de France1887The Flight to France1887
1888Deux Ans de vacances1888Two Years' Vacation1888
1889Famille-sans-nom1889Family Without a Name1889
Sans dessus dessous1889The Purchase of the North Pole1889
1890César Cascabel1890César Cascabel1890
1891Mistress Branican1891Mistress Branican1891
1892Le Château des Carpathes1892Carpathian Castle1892
1892Claudius Bombarnac1893Claudius Bombarnac1892
1893P'tit-Bonhomme1893Foundling Mick1893
1894Mirifiques Aventures de Maître Antifer1894Captain Antifer1894
1895L'Île à hélice1895Propeller Island1895
1896Face au drapeau1896Facing the Flag1896
1896Clovis Dardentor1896Clovis Dardentor1896
1897Le Sphinx des glaces1897An Antarctic Mystery1897
1898Le Superbe Orénoque1898The Mighty Orinoco1898
1899Le Testament d'un excentrique1899The Will of an Eccentric1899
1900Seconde Patrie1900The Castaways of the Flag1900
1901Le Village aérien1901The Village in the Treetops1901
1901Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin1901The Sea Serpent1901
1902Les Frères Kip1902The Kip Brothers1902
1903Bourses de voyage1903Travel Scholarships1903
1904Un Drame en Livonie1904A Drama in Livonia1904
1904Maître du monde1904Master of the World1904
1905L'Invasion de la mer1905Invasion of the Sea1905

Posthumous additions

1890 Hetzel advertisement

The posthumously published volumes in the Voyages Extraordinaires were extensively altered, and in some cases entirely written, by Verne's son Michel.[9]

Serial YearFrench titleYearEnglish titleYear
1905Le Phare du bout du monde1905The Lighthouse at the End of the World1905
1906Le Volcan d’or1906The Golden Volcano1906
1907L’Agence Thompson and Co1907The Thompson Travel Agency1907
1908La Chasse au météore1908The Chase of the Golden Meteor1908
1908Le Pilote du Danube1908The Danube Pilot1908
1909Les Naufragés du "Jonathan"1909The Survivors of the "Jonathan"1909
1910Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz1910The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz1910
1914L’Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac1920The Barsac Mission1919

Other novels

Published in Verne's lifetime

  • L'Épave du "Cynthia" (The Waif of the "Cynthia", 1885, with André Laurie)

Posthumously published

Short stories

Published in Verne's lifetime

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", ("The Humbug", 1910)
  • "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, 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)

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