Antarctic Mystery

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Antarctic Mystery

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Classic fiction: general and literary

Author: Jules Verne

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Language: English

Published by: Otbebookpublishing

Published on: 13th October 2022

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9783987448171


An Antarctic Mystery

French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne.

Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane.

Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean, but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.

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