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First published in 1875, The Mysterious Island is one of Jules Verne’s most popular and enduring works. Set during the years of the American Civil War, it tells the tale of a group of castaways who end up on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, surviving thanks to their ingenuity, skill, determination, and the intermittent help of a mysterious power that appears to benevolently assist them in their times of greatest need. Translated and published in English the very same year as the original French edition, the novel incorporates themes and characters of two other novels by Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, both published during the previous decade.