The Mysterious Island Trilogy: Dropped from the Clouds, Abandoned & The Secret of the Island (Complete Edition). Жюль Верн
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Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island
Adventure Classic
Published by
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-3132-4
Table of Contents
PART 1. DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
PART 3. THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 16
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
PART 1—DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS
Chapter 1
“Are we rising again?” “No. On the contrary.” “Are we descending?” “Worse than that, captain! we are falling!” “For Heaven’s sake heave out the ballast!” “There! the last sack is empty!” “Does the balloon rise?” “No!” “I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car! It cannot be more than 500 feet from us!” “Overboard with every weight! … everything!”
Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o’clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
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