The Mysterious Island -- Jules Verne

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, <i>The Mysterious Island</i> is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. "Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump" (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive as they uncover the island's secret.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Jules Verne<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 12/10/2002<br><b>Pages:</b> 672<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.07lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.01h x 5.18w x 1.19d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780812966428<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 10.8<br><b>Point Value:</b> 41<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Middle Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>79594 / Mysterious Island<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Jordan Stump</b> is an associate professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and translator of more than half a dozen French novels. His translation of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Claude Simon's <i>Le jardin des plantes</i> won the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for 2001. <p/><b>Caleb Carr</b> is the bestselling author of <i>The Alienist</i> and, most recently, <i>The Lessons of Terror</i>. He lives in New York.</p>