Abandoned
The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L`Abandonné. Jules Verne`s list of stories alre
The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L`Abandonné. Jules Verne`s list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes—a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions. L`Abandonné, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a serial through the Magasin Illustré of education and recreation, before its issue as a boy`s story-book. Its success in both forms seems to have established a record in the race for popularity and a circulation in both the French and English fields of current literature. The present book was translated into English by the late W. H. G. Kingston
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