A marvelous adventure story, The Mysterious Island is also notable for its modern retelling of the utopian deserted-island myth, with repeated echoes of Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has secretly been helping the settlers. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. First audiobook of this new, unabridged translation of one of Verne's best-known novels.
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