The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne

Category: Adventure, Classic, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Classics

Written by Jules Verne
Read by Berny Clark
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

The Mysterious Island
By: Jules Verne
Narrated by: Berny Clark
Series: Captain Nemo, Book 2
Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 21-03-2012
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Studios

This 19th-century adventure novel will delight Verne fans. As in other works by Verne the characters are ideal and the plot seems convenient rather than organic. Verne was not a scientist, but he was obsessed by all the scientific disciplines. Verne’s novels are full of magical inventions and pseudo-scientific rhetoric. In The Mysterious Island, five men and a pooch land their balloon on an exotic island. They undertake to learn the secret of the place. Narrator Berny Clark’s lively voice sings out the animated dialogue. His excited yet genteel tone makes the densely descriptive text sound lighter and less mannered. His voice sustains an energetic lilt throughout his performance of this lengthy and exhaustively sketched fiction.

Publisher’s Summary
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island 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” (Kirkus Reviews), 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.

Public Domain (P)2012 Audible, Inc.