Jules Verne 4 hr 18 min read

Cast away on a Pacific island, a party of adventurers survive pirates and convicts, and slowly realize that some hidden benefactor is secretly watching over them.

Jules Verne's 1875 novel, the sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues, concludes The Mysterious Island. Vivid, ingenious, thrilling. Read it for the climactic volume of Verne's great castaway epic, where resourceful survival meets grand revelation, the identity of the island's mysterious guardian, and the return of one of the genre's most legendary figures.

In its time

Published in 1875, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

4 hr 18 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).