Jules Verne bibliography explained

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 and on surrealism, their innovative use of modernist literary techniques such as self-reflexivity, and their complex combination of positivist and romantic ideologies.

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

Voyages Extraordinaires

See main article: 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.^[1]

• 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.
• 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 Year	French title	Year	English title	Year
—	Cinq Semaines en ballon	1863	Five Weeks in a Balloon	1865
1864–65	Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras	1866		1866
—	Voyage au centre de la Terre	1864	Journey to the Center of the Earth	1867
1865	De la Terre à la Lune	1865	From the Earth to the Moon	1868
1865–67	Les Enfants du capitaine Grant	1867–68	In Search of the Castaways	1868
1869–70	Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers	1869–70	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas	1871
1869	Autour de la Lune	1870	Around the Moon	1872
1870	Une Ville flottante	1871		1871
1871–72	Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais	1872		1872
1872–73	Le Pays des fourrures	1873		1873
1872	Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours	1873	Around the World in Eighty Days	1873
1874–75	L'Île mystérieuse	1874–75		1875
1874–75	Le Chancellor	1875		1875
1876	Michel Strogoff	1876	Michael Strogoff	1876
1877	Hector Servadac	1877	Off on a Comet	1877
1877	Les Indes noires	1877		1877
1878	Un Capitaine de quinze ans	1878	Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen	1878
1879	Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum	1879		1879
1879	Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine	1879	Tribulations of a Chinaman in China	1879
1879–80	La Maison à vapeur	1880		1880
1881	La Jangada	1881	Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon	1881
1882	L'École des Robinsons	1882	Godfrey Morgan	1882
1882	Le Rayon vert	1882		1882
1883	Kéraban-le-têtu	1883	Kéraban the Inflexible	1883
1884	L'Étoile du sud	1884		1884
1884	L'Archipel en feu	1884		1884
1885	Mathias Sandorf	1885	Mathias Sandorf	1885
1886	Un Billet de loterie	1886		1886
1886	Robur-le-Conquérant	1886	Robur the Conqueror	1886
1887	Nord contre Sud	1887	North Against South	1887
1887	Le Chemin de France	1887		1887
1888	Deux Ans de vacances	1888	Two Years' Vacation	1888
1889	Famille-sans-nom	1889	Family Without a Name	1889
—	Sans dessus dessous	1889		1889
1890	César Cascabel	1890	César Cascabel	1890
1891	Mistress Branican	1891	Mistress Branican	1891
1892	Le Château des Carpathes	1892	Carpathian Castle	1892
1892	Claudius Bombarnac	1893	Claudius Bombarnac	1892
1893	P'tit-Bonhomme	1893	Foundling Mick	1893
1894	Mirifiques Aventures de Maître Antifer	1894	Captain Antifer	1894
1895	L'Île à hélice	1895	Propeller Island	1895
1896	Face au drapeau	1896	Facing the Flag	1896
1896	Clovis Dardentor	1896	Clovis Dardentor	1896
1897	Le Sphinx des glaces	1897		1897
1898	Le Superbe Orénoque	1898		1898
1899	Le Testament d'un excentrique	1899		1899
1900	Seconde Patrie	1900		1900
1901	Le Village aérien	1901		1901
1901	Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin	1901		1901
1902	Les Frères Kip	1902		1902
1903	Bourses de voyage	1903	Travel Scholarships	1903
1904	Un Drame en Livonie	1904		1904
1904	Maître du monde	1904	Master of the World	1904
1905	L'Invasion de la mer	1905	Invasion of the Sea	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.

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

Other novels

Published in Verne's lifetime

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

Posthumously published

• Un prêtre en 1839 (A Priest in 1839, 1845-1848, first published 1992, unfinished)
• 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", ("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)

Notes

Citations

External links

• The Complete Jules Verne Bibliographywith notes and research by leading Verne scholars

Notes and References

1. Unless otherwise referenced, information in the following bulleted list is adapted from .