This eBook edition of «Facing the Flag (An Intriguing Tale of Piracy, Action & Adventure)» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. In this adventure classic by Jules Verne – A dangerous buccaneer is in search of a weapon of mass destruction must be stopped before it's too late. Jules Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science...
"From the Earth to the Moon" is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon. "Around the Moon" is the sequel, which continues the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French...
"Mysterious Island" by Jules Verne is subtitled Shipwrecked in the Air, The Abandoned and The Secret of the Island. The present translation is by Stephen W. White. It first appeared in the Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia, PA and was later published as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book in 1876. English translators often altered their translations to suit current political views of Church and Empire. It is about six Northerns prisoners that flee Richmond during the American Civil War. Their...
