Michael Strogoff
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| Michael Strogoff by , translated by Agnes Kinloch Kingston |
| Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (French: Michel Strogoff) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. It is considered one of Verne's best books by critics. Unlike some of Verne's other famous novels, it is not science fiction. — Excerpted from Michael Strogoff on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This etext has been provided by Project Gutenberg. This work is an abridged version of the translation by Agnes Kinloch, wife of W. H. G. Kingston. Kingston's translation was initially published in Britain by Sampson, Low & Marston (1876), and in the United States by various publishers (Charles Scribner's Sons, George Munro) from 1877. Kingston's work is a fairly complete translation of Verne's original. The version here is from volume 8 of "The Works of Jules Verne", edited by Charles F. Horne and published by Vincent Parke and Company in 1911. About 10% of Kingston's original translation has been deleted. The complete version in PDF format is available on Google-books as published by Scribners, and awaits conversion into a new complete text version. |
[edit] Book I
- Chapter I: A Fete at the New Palace
- Chapter II: Russians and Tartars
- Chapter III: Michael Strogoff Meets the Czar
- Chapter IV: From Moscow to Nijni-Novgorod
- Chapter V: The Two Announcements
- Chapter VI: Brother and Sister
- Chapter VII: Going Down the Volga
- Chapter VIII: Going Up the Kama
- Chapter IX: Day and Night in a Tarantass
- Chapter X: A Storm in the Ural Mountains
- Chapter XI: Travelers in Distress
- Chapter XII: Provocation
- Chapter XIII: Duty Before Everything
- Chapter XIV: Mother and Son
- Chapter XV: The Marshes of the Baraba
- Chapter XVI: A Final Effort
- Chapter XVII: The Rivals
[edit] Book II
- Chapter I: A Tartar Camp
- Chapter II: Correspondents in Trouble
- Chapter III: Blow for Blow
- Chapter IV: The Triumphal Entry
- Chapter V: "Look While You May!"
- Chapter VI: A Friend on the Highway
- Chapter VII: The Passage of the Yenisei
- Chapter VIII: A Hare Crosses the Road
- Chapter IX: In the Steppe
- Chapter X: Baikal and Angara
- Chapter XI: Between Two Banks
- Chapter XII: Irkutsk
- Chapter XIII: The Czar's Courier
- Chapter XIV: The Night of the Fifth of October
- Chapter XV: Conclusion