Jules Verne bibliography

Jules Verne, circa 1856

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

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.

  • 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
1864–5 Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras 1866 The Adventures of Captain Hatteras 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
1865–7 Les Enfants du capitaine Grant 1867–8 In Search of the Castaways 1868
1869–70 Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers 1869–70 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 1871
1869 Autour de la Lune 1870 Around the Moon 1872
1870 Une Ville flottante 1871 A Floating City 1871
1871–2 Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais 1872 The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa 1872
1872–3 Le Pays des fourrures 1873 The Fur Country 1873
1872 Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours 1873 Around the World in Eighty Days 1873
1874–5 L'Île mystérieuse 1874–5 The Mysterious Island 1875
1874–5 Le Chancellor 1875 The Survivors of the Chancellor 1875
1876 Michel Strogoff 1876 Michael Strogoff 1876
1877 Hector Servadac 1877 Off on a Comet 1877
1877 Les Indes noires 1877 The Child of the Cavern 1877
1878 Un Capitaine de quinze ans 1878 Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen 1878
1879 Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum 1879 The Begum's Fortune 1879
1879 Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine 1879 Tribulations of a Chinaman in China 1879
1879–80 La Maison à vapeur 1880 The Steam House 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 The Green Ray 1882
1883 Kéraban-le-têtu 1883 Kéraban the Inflexible 1883
1884 L'Étoile du sud 1884 The Vanished Diamond 1884
1884 L'Archipel en feu 1884 The Archipelago on Fire 1884
1885 Mathias Sandorf 1885 Mathias Sandorf 1885
1886 Un Billet de loterie 1886 The Lottery Ticket 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 The Flight to France 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 The Purchase of the North Pole 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 An Antarctic Mystery 1897
1898 Le Superbe Orénoque 1898 The Mighty Orinoco 1898
1899 Le Testament d'un excentrique 1899 The Will of an Eccentric 1899
1900 Seconde Patrie 1900 The Castaways of the Flag 1900
1901 Le Village aérien 1901 The Village in the Treetops 1901
1901 Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin 1901 The Sea Serpent 1901
1902 Les Frères Kip 1902 The Kip Brothers 1902
1903 Bourses de voyage 1903 Travel Scholarships 1903
1904 Un Drame en Livonie 1904 A Drama in Livonia 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

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.

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

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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