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1865
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70 pages
ISBN: 978-3730995495
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The Blockade Runners

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The Blockade Runners is a translation of Les forceurs de blocus (1871). The Blockade Runners, a novella, was included along with A Floating City in the first english and french editions of this work. This translation, which follows that of Sampson and Low (UK) and Scribners (US) is by "N. D'Anvers", pseudonymn for Mrs. Arthur Bell (d. 1933) who also translated other Verne books. It is also included in the fifteen volume Parke edition of the works of Jules Verne (1911). There is another translation by Henry Frith which was published by Routledge (1876). Both of these stories are about ships; Floating City about the largest ship of the time, the Great Eastern, and Blockade Runners about one of the fastest, the Dolphin.

Book Information

Title:The Blockade Runners
Author:Jules Verne
Series:Short Stories/Novellas
Book Number:#2
Published:1865
Pages:70
ISBN-13:978-3730995495

Series Progress

This book is part of the Short Stories/Novellas series and is book #2 in the series.