Physical description

Hard cover book, Abandoned.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington, St. Dunstans House, Fetter Lane Fleet Street, London. EC.
Date: 1892
Light blue hardcover with the title on the spine having lettering to spine in black hand written text pen.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with typed text PAT 843 VER
Front loose end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service

Summary

"Abandoned" is the second part of Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island trilogy”, continuing the story of a group of castaways testing their ingenuity and courage on a remote Pacific island. The 1892 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington edition is an early English language reprint of this work.This novel is not among Verne’s absolute core masterpieces like “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas” or “Around the World in Eighty Days”.
Abandoned (also known as its original French title, "L’Île mystérieuse: Deuxième partie L’Abandonné" picks up the narrative of five or six men (including the engineer Cyrus Harding and the sailor Pencroff) who have already survived a balloon crash and built a rudimentary civilisation on a seemingly uninhabited island. As they explore the island further, they discover signs of a mysterious benefactor and eventually meet the “abandoned” character Ayrton, a former convict who has lived in isolation while the island itself faces natural and human threats that test their survival and moral choices. The story blends adventure, technology, and social Utopian themes, showing how rational cooperation can triumph over hardship and moral degeneration.