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Title: Abandoned

Author: Jules Verne

Translator: William Henry Giles Kingston

Release Date: August 23, 2010 [EBook #33516]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

ABANDONED
BY JULES VERNE

FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS

THE PUBLISHERS OF _EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY_ WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND
FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED
VOLUMES TO BE COMPRISED UNDER THE FOLLOWING TWELVE HEADINGS:

TRAVEL SCIENCE FICTION
THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
HISTORY CLASSICAL
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
ESSAYS ORATORY
POETRY & DRAMA
BIOGRAPHY
ROMANCE

IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING, CLOTH, FLAT BACK, COLOURED TOP, AND
LEATHER, ROUND CORNERS, GILT TOP.

LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

[Illustration: THIS IS FAIRY GOLD, BOY; AND 'TWILL PROVE SO.
SHAKESPEARE.]

[Illustration: ABANDONED By JULES VERNE
_Translated from the French_
By W. H. G. KINGSTON
LONDON: PUBLISHED by J. M. DENT & CO
AND IN NEW YORK BY E. P. DUTTON & CO]

INTRODUCTION

The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was
originally issued in Paris with the title of _L'Abandonne_. Jules
Verne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes--a
number which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions.
_L'Abandonne_, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a
serial through the _Magasin Illustre_ of education and recreation,
before its issue