Mysterious island short. Jules Verne's book “The Mysterious Island

Roman-robinsonade " Mysterious Island"Was a continuation of the other two famous works by the French writer Jules Verne - "Children of Captain Grant" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". The events described in the book take place on a fictional island on which Captain Nemo, already familiar to readers from previous works, landed.

The novel begins during the United States Civil War. Five North Americans (Nab, Cyres, Gedeon, Herbert and Bonaventure) are forced to flee Richmond, the capital of the South. The fugitives had a balloon at their disposal. Unusual vehicle gets caught in a storm. The Americans were washed up on the coast of an unknown uninhabited island in the Southern Hemisphere. The new owners of the island begin to equip the land they have found and after a while they are adjusting their way of life. New earth was named Lincoln Island. Over time, the Americans have a loyal friend - the orangutan, nicknamed Uncle Jupe.

Once the settlers found a box with firearms, clothes, tools, books on English language and various devices. In the same box, a map was found on which the island of Tabor was marked. Unfamiliar plot sushi is located near Lincoln Island. Pencroff, a sailor by trade, wants to see Tabor in person. For a little trip, friends are building a bot. While making a test voyage around the island, the Americans discover a bottle with a note stating that the shipwrecked man is awaiting help at Tabor.

Ayrton, who had lost his human form, was indeed discovered on the island. As it turned out, Ayrton was not shipwrecked. He was left at Tabor by the owner of the sailing ship "Duncan" because Ayrton tried to organize a riot. The owner of the sailboat promised that someday he would definitely return for the guilty one. Friends take Ayrton with them and surround him with care.

Three years have passed since the arrival of a new resident on Lincoln Island. The Americans managed to harvest a rich wheat crop. Once Herbert discovered in his pocket a grain of wheat accidentally found there, thanks to which it became possible to grow wheat. Friends started breeding poultry, built a mill, made new clothes for themselves. But once the peaceful and prosperous existence of the inhabitants of a small colony was overshadowed by the appearance on the horizon of a ship with a black flag, which could only be seen on pirate ships.

The inhabitants of the Lincoln Island are forced to fight for their land with sea robbers: first on the water, then on land. Americans constantly feel that someone is helping them, because on their own they could not cope with such a huge number of pirates. In the end, they meet their mysterious patron. The Indian prince Dakkar, also known as Captain Nemo, fought for the independence of his country when he was young. All of the captain's associates have already died. The prince himself was also dying. Nemo warned his friends that a volcano was about to explode on the island, and then presented them with a casket with jewelry.

After the death of the captain, the Americans started building a ship in order to leave the island in time. Nemo's boat could no longer be used. The unexpected explosion of the volcano left only a small reef from the island. Friends drifted on it for several days. Then they were rescued by the sailing ship "Duncan". Subsequently, it turned out that Captain Nemo had left a message on Tabor that there were people on the neighboring island awaiting help. Thanks to this note, the Lincolns were saved.

After returning to the United States, the Robinsons sold the jewelry donated by the captain and acquired a small land plot, on which they all settled together.

Characteristics of the characters

Bonaventure Pencroff

Before fleeing America, Pencroff was a sailor. Friends find him adventurous and very kind person... Bonaventure became an orphan early and was forced to work on a ship on which Herbert Brown's father was a captain.

Cyrus Smith

Cyrus became the squad leader. Smith is the soul of the company and a very talented engineer.

Gideon Spilett

Spilett worked as a military journalist. Gideon possesses all the qualities of a person who will live on a desert island. He is determined, energetic and very resourceful. Spilett loves hunting.

Herbert Brown

Pencroff treats Brown like his own son. Herbert has a deep knowledge of natural sciences.

Former slave

Nebuchadnezzar, or simply Neb, was once a slave. Neb is well versed in blacksmithing. Once freed, the former slave became Smith's devoted servant.

We invite you to familiarize yourself with the biography of Jules Verne, the greatest French writer of the 19th century, who gave the world such masterpieces as "Around the World in 80 Days", "Children of Captain Grant", "Fifteen-Year-Old Captain" and others.

Next, we look at a summary of Jules Verne's Fifteen Years Captain, adventure novel, the actions of which take place on the whaling ship "Pilgrim".

Robinson Ayrton

For some time Ayrton lived alone on the island of Tabor. Forced loneliness led to the fact that "Robinson" almost completely lost his mind. When the Lincolns took him to their island, Ayrton could not come to his senses for a long time, despite the care of new friends. Gradually recovering, "Robinson" became ashamed of his previous behavior.

Captain Nemo is difficult to name among the main characters, but he is invisibly present throughout the entire narrative. At the beginning of the novel, Nemo tosses a box of tools to Cyrus to help the new inhabitants of the island. Ayrton was also saved by the captain, who, as it turned out, did not throw the bottle with the note, as he was on the verge of insanity. Over time, the Americans begin to realize that there is someone else on the island besides them. Friends embarked on a search expedition to find their mysterious benefactor. However, the searches were unsuccessful.

Nemo (translated from Latin "nobody") was originally conceived by Vern as a Polish revolutionary. However, later the writer had more interesting idea and he transformed Nemo into the Bundelkhand prince of Dakkar, who led the Sepoy rebellion in the 1850s. The British invaders have enslaved the homeland. Dakkar fought for the liberation of his native land. The prince lost his wife and children, taken hostage by the enemies and killed in captivity. Dakkar himself was forced to flee.

New life

The prince had an excellent education, thanks to which he was able to build a submarine. Taking the name Nemo, Dakkar decided to permanently settle in the ocean depths. He tried not to go to land and, in principle, not to use substances of terrestrial origin. According to Nemo, only life under water makes a person truly free.

Captain Nemo has always been helped by loyal friends. They helped him build a submarine. However, years passed, and almost none of the captain's friends survived. Nemo remained a lonely old man looking for his last refuge. The only consolation for the old captain is the help that he had the opportunity to provide completely to strangers... The author allows his hero to end his days among good people without denying him the last confession.

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The action takes place during the American Civil War. Southerners control northern city Richmond. Five local residents decided to escape with the help of hot air balloon... But because of a strong storm, they are thrown onto a desert island. This brought the whole team together. A dwelling was made - the Granite Palace in the cave. The colonists created tools, hunted, and grew plants. Once, the cave was occupied by monkeys. Although everyone later fled, an orangutan, nicknamed Uncle Jupp, remained with the people. He helps and serves new masters. Having found an old map, the team decides to sail to Tabor Island, for this a bot was built. There they were joined by former criminal Ayrton, who was exiled to the island for re-education. After 3 years, pirates attacked the islanders. But someone mysterious first blew up the enemy's ship, and then exterminated the pirates, who did not agree to lead a peaceful life. As a result, it turned out that the elderly captain Nemo, who was fighting for the freedom of India, was helping. As a result of the volcanic eruption, the heroes miraculously did not drown. The ship Duncan saved them. Returning to America, the comrades live just like on the island.

Conclusion (my opinion)

A difficult situation is a reason to mobilize physical and mental strength. Much can be created from nothing. As a result of labor, each hero acquired new qualities. On the example of Nemo, it is clear that a person is happy in society, and not in solitude.

Mysterious Island
Jules Verne

Mysterious Island

March 1865 In the United States, during the Civil War, five brave northerners flee from Richmond, taken by the southerners, in a balloon. A terrible storm throws four of them onto the coast of an uninhabited island in the Southern Hemisphere. The fifth man and his dog plunge into the sea near the shore. This fifth - a certain Cyrus Smith, a talented engineer and scientist, the soul and leader of a detachment of travelers - for several days involuntarily keeps his companions in suspense, who can nowhere find either himself or his loyal dog Top. The one who suffers most of all is the former slave and now Smith's devoted servant, the Negro Neb. Also in the balloon were a military journalist and Smith's friend, Gideon Spilett, a very energetic and decisive man with a seething mind; sailor Pencroff, a good-natured and adventurous daredevil; fifteen-year-old Herbert Brown, son of the captain of the ship on which Pencroff sailed, left an orphan, and to whom the sailor treats like his own son. After a tedious search, Nab finally finds his inexplicably escaped master a mile offshore. Each of the new settlers of the island has irreplaceable talents, and under the leadership of Cyrus Spilett, these brave people rally and become a single team. First, with the help of the simplest improvised means, then producing more and more complex objects of labor and everyday life in their own small factories, the settlers arrange their lives. They hunt, collect edible plants, oysters, then they even breed domestic animals and engage in agriculture. They make their dwelling high in a rock, in a cave freed from water. Soon, thanks to their hard work and intelligence, the colonists no longer know the need for food, clothing, or warmth and comfort. They have everything except news of their homeland, about the fate of which they are very worried about.

Once, returning to their dwelling, which they called the Granite Palace, they see that monkeys are in charge inside. After a while, as if under the influence of insane fear, the monkeys begin to jump out of the windows, and someone's hand throws out the travelers rope ladder, which the monkeys raised into the house. Inside, people find another monkey - an orangutan, which they keep and call Uncle Jupe. In the future, Jupe becomes a friend to people, a servant and irreplaceable assistant.

On another day, the settlers find a box in the sand with tools, firearms, various appliances, clothes, kitchen utensils and books in English. The settlers wonder where this box could have come from. On the map, which also appeared in the box, they discover that next to their island, which is not marked on the map, is the island of Tabor. Sailor Pencroff is eager to sail on it. With the help of his friends, he builds a bot. When the bot is ready, everyone goes on a test voyage around the island together. During it, they find a bottle with a note, which says that the shipwrecked man is waiting for salvation on the island of Tabor. This event reinforces Pencroff's confidence in the need to visit the neighboring island. Pencroff, journalist Gedeon Spilett and Herbert set sail. Arriving at Tabor, they discover a small shack, where, by all indications, no one has lived for a long time. They scatter around the island, not hoping to see a living person, and try to find at least his remains. Suddenly they hear Herbert scream and rush to his aid. They see Herbert fighting a hairy monkey-like creature. However, the monkey turns out to be a feral man. Travelers tie him up and transport him to their island. They take him away a separate room in the Granite Palace. Thanks to their attention and care, the savage soon turns into a civilized man again and tells them his story. It turns out that his name is Ayrton, he is a former criminal, he wanted to take possession of the sailing ship "Duncan" and with the help of the same as he was, the dregs of society, turn it into a pirate ship. However, his plans were not destined to come true, and as a punishment years ago he was left on the uninhabited island of Tabor, so that he realized his deed and atoned for his sin. However, the owner of "Duncan" Edward Glenarvan said that someday he would return for Ayrton. The settlers see that Ayrton sincerely repents of his past sins, and he tries to be useful to them in every possible way. Therefore, they are not inclined to judge him for past transgressions and willingly accept him into their society. However, Ayrton needs time, and so he asks to be given the opportunity to live in the corral, which the settlers built for their domesticated animals at some distance from the Granite Palace.

When the bot was returning from the island of Tabor at night in a storm, he was saved by a fire, which, as those who sailed on it thought, were kindled by their friends. However, it turns out that they were not involved in this. It also turns out that Ayrton did not throw a bottle with a note into the sea. The settlers cannot explain these mysterious events. They are increasingly inclined to think that besides them, someone else lives on Lincoln Island, as they christened it, their mysterious benefactor, who often comes to their aid in the most difficult situations. They even undertake a search expedition in the hope of finding his place of residence. However, the search ends in vain.

The next (because since Ayrton appeared on their island, and until the moment he told them his story, five months had passed and the summer was over, and in the cold season it is dangerous to sail) they decide to get to the island again Tabor to leave a note in the hut. In a note, they intend to warn Captain Glenarvan in case he returns that Ayrton and five other wrecked ones are waiting for help on the neighboring island.

The settlers have been living on their island for three years. Their life, their economy has reached prosperity. They are already harvesting rich crops of wheat, grown from a single grain, discovered three years ago in Herbert's pocket, built a mill, breed poultry, completely equipped their home, made new warm clothes and blankets from mouflon wool. However, their peaceful life is overshadowed by one incident that threatens them with death. One day, looking at the sea, they see a well-equipped ship in the distance, but a black flag flies above the ship. The ship is anchored off the coast. Beautiful long-range cannons are visible on it. Ayrton sneaks aboard the ship under cover of night to make reconnaissance. It turns out that there are fifty pirates on the ship. Miraculously eluding them, Ayrton returns to the shore and informs his friends that they need to prepare for battle. In the morning, two boats descend from the ship. On the first, the settlers shoot three, and she returns back, the second sticks to the shore, and the six pirates remaining on it hide in the forest. Cannons are being fired from the ship, and it approaches the shore even closer. It seems that nothing can save a handful of settlers. Suddenly, a huge wave rises under the ship and it sinks. All pirates on it are killed. As it turns out later, the ship was blown up by a mine, and this event finally convinces the inhabitants of the island that they are not alone here.

At first, they are not going to exterminate the pirates, wanting to provide them with the opportunity to lead a peaceful life. But it turns out that they are not capable of this. They begin to plunder and burn the settlers' households. Ayrton goes to the corral to visit the animals. The pirates grab him and take him to a cave, where they torture him to get him to agree to go over to their side. Ayrton does not give up. His friends go to his aid, however, Herbert is seriously injured in the corral, and the friends remain in it, unable to move back with the young man who is dying. A few days later, they still go to the Granite Palace. As a result of the transition, Herbert develops a malignant fever and is dying. Once again, Providence intervenes in their lives and the hand of their kind mysterious friend tosses them the necessary medicine. Herbert recovers completely. The settlers intend to deliver the final blow to the pirates. They go to the corral, where they expect to find them, but they find there the exhausted and barely alive Ayrton, and nearby - the corpses of the robbers. Ayrton says that he does not know how he ended up in the corral, who carried him out of the cave and killed the pirates. However, he gives one sad news. A week ago, the bandits went to sea, but, unable to control the bot, they smashed it on the coastal reefs. The trip to Tabor has to be postponed until a new vehicle is built. For the next seven months, the mysterious stranger remains silent. Meanwhile, a volcano wakes up on the island, which the colonists thought was already dead. They are building a new large ship that, if necessary, could take them to inhabited land.

One evening, already preparing to go to bed, the inhabitants of the Granite Palace hear the bell. The telegraph goes off, which they took from the corral to their home. They are urgently summoned to the corral. There they find a note asking them to go along the additional wire. The cable leads them to a huge grotto, where, to their amazement, they see a submarine. In it, they get to know its owner and their patron, Captain Nemo, the Indian prince Dakkar, who fought all his life for the independence of his homeland. He, already a sixty-year old man who has buried all his comrades-in-arms, is dying. Nemo gives new friends a casket with jewels and warns that when a volcano erupts, the island (such is its structure) will explode. He dies, the settlers close the boat's hatches and lower it under the water, and they themselves tirelessly build a new ship all day long. However, they do not have time to finish it. All living things perish during the explosion of the island, from which only a small reef in the ocean remains. The settlers who spent the night in a tent on the shore are thrown into the sea by an air wave. All of them, with the exception of Jupe, remain alive. For more than ten days they sit on the reef, almost dying of hunger and no longer hoping for anything. Suddenly they see a ship. This is Duncan. He saves everyone. As it turns out later, Captain Nemo, when the bot was still intact, sailed on it to Tabor and left a note to the rescuers.

Returning to America, with the jewelry donated by Captain Nemo, friends buy a large plot of land and live on it just like they lived on Lincoln Island.

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Mysterious Island
Summary of the novel
March 1865 In the United States, during the Civil War, five brave northerners flee from Richmond, taken by the southerners, in a balloon. A terrible storm throws four of them onto the coast of an uninhabited island in the Southern Hemisphere. The fifth man and his dog plunge into the sea near the shore. This fifth - a certain Cyrus Smith, a talented engineer and scientist, the soul and leader of a detachment of travelers - for several days involuntarily keeps his companions in suspense, who can nowhere find either himself or his loyal dog Top. The one who suffers most of all is the former slave and now Smith's devoted servant, the Negro Neb. Also in the balloon were a military journalist and Smith's friend, Gideon Spilett, a very energetic and decisive man with a seething mind; sailor Pencroff, a good-natured and adventurous daredevil; fifteen-year-old Herbert Brown, son of the captain of the ship on which Pencroff sailed, left an orphan, and whom the sailor regards as his own son. After a tedious search, Nab finally finds his inexplicably escaped master a mile offshore. Each of the new settlers of the island has irreplaceable talents, and under the leadership of Cyrus Spilett, these brave people rally and become a single team. First, with the help of the simplest improvised means, then producing more and more complex objects of labor and everyday life in their own small factories, the settlers arrange their lives. They hunt, collect edible plants, oysters, then even raise domestic animals and engage in agriculture. They make their dwelling high in a rock, in a cave freed from water. Soon, thanks to their hard work and intelligence, the colonists no longer know the need for food, clothing, or warmth and comfort. They have everything except news of their homeland, about the fate of which they are very worried about.
Once, returning to their dwelling, which they called the Granite Palace, they see that monkeys are in charge inside. After a while, as if under the influence of insane fear, the monkeys begin to jump out of the windows, and someone's hand throws out a rope ladder to the travelers, which the monkeys lifted into the house. Inside, people find another monkey - the orangutan, which they keep and call Uncle Jupe. In the future, Jupe becomes a friend to people, a servant and an irreplaceable helper.
On another day, the settlers find a box in the sand with tools, firearms, various appliances, clothes, kitchen utensils and books in English. The settlers wonder where this box could have come from. On the map, which also appeared in the box, they discover that next to their island, which is not marked on the map, is the island of Tabor. Sailor Pencroff is eager to sail on it. With the help of his friends, he builds a bot. When the bot is ready, everyone goes on a test voyage around the island together. During it, they find a bottle with a note, which says that the shipwrecked man is waiting for salvation on the island of Tabor. This event reinforces Pencroff's confidence in the need to visit the neighboring island. Pencroff, journalist Gedeon Spilett and Herbert set sail. Arriving at Tabor, they discover a small shack, where, by all indications, no one has lived for a long time. They scatter around the island, not hoping to see a living person, and try to find at least his remains. Suddenly they hear Herbert scream and rush to his aid. They see Herbert fighting a hairy monkey-like creature. However, the monkey turns out to be a feral man. Travelers tie him up and transport him to their island. They give him a separate room in the Granite Palace. Thanks to their attention and care, the savage soon turns into a civilized man again and tells them his story. It turns out that his name is Ayrton, he is a former criminal, he wanted to take possession of the sailing ship "Duncan" and with the help of the same as he was, the dregs of society, turn it into a pirate ship. However, his plans were not destined to come true, and as a punishment twelve years ago he was left on the uninhabited island of Tabor so that he would realize his deed and atone for his sin. However, the owner of “Duncan” Edward Glenarvan said that he would come back for Ayrton someday. The settlers see that Ayrton sincerely repents of his past sins, and he tries to be useful to them in every possible way. Therefore, they are not inclined to judge him for past transgressions and willingly accept him into their society. However, Ayrton needs time, and so he asks to be given the opportunity to live in the corral, which the settlers built for their domesticated animals at some distance from the Granite Palace.
When the bot was returning from the island of Tabor at night in a storm, he was saved by a fire, which, as those who sailed on it thought, were kindled by their friends. However, it turns out that they were not involved in this. It also turns out that Ayrton did not throw a bottle with a note into the sea. The settlers cannot explain these mysterious events. They are increasingly inclined to think that besides them, someone else lives on Lincoln Island, as they christened it, their mysterious benefactor, who often comes to their aid in the most difficult situations. They even undertake a search expedition in the hope of finding his place of residence. However, the search ends in vain.
The next summer (since five months have passed since Ayrton appeared on their island, and until the moment he told them his story, and the summer is over, and in the cold season it is dangerous to sail) they decide to get to Tabor Islands to leave a note in the hut. In a note, they intend to warn Captain Glenarvan in case he returns that Ayrton and five other wrecked ones are waiting for help on the neighboring island.
The settlers have been living on their island for three years. Their life, their economy has reached prosperity. They are already harvesting rich crops of wheat, grown from a single grain, discovered three years ago in Herbert's pocket, built a mill, breed poultry, completely equipped their home, made new warm clothes and blankets from mouflon wool. However, their peaceful life is overshadowed by one incident that threatens them with death. One day, looking at the sea, they see a well-equipped ship in the distance, but a black flag flies above the ship. The ship is anchored off the coast. Beautiful long-range cannons are visible on it. Ayrton sneaks aboard the ship under cover of night to make reconnaissance. It turns out that there are fifty pirates on the ship. Miraculously eluding them, Ayrton returns to the shore and informs his friends that they need to prepare for battle. In the morning, two boats descend from the ship. On the first, the settlers shoot three, and she returns back, the second sticks to the shore, and the six pirates remaining on it hide in the forest. Cannons are being fired from the ship, and it approaches the shore even closer. It seems that nothing can save a handful of settlers. Suddenly, a huge wave rises under the ship and it sinks. All pirates on it are killed. As it turns out later, the ship was blown up by a mine, and this event finally convinces the inhabitants of the island that they are not alone here.
At first, they are not going to exterminate the pirates, wanting to provide them with the opportunity to lead a peaceful life. But it turns out that the robbers are not capable of this. They begin to plunder and burn the settlers' households. Ayrton goes to the corral to visit the animals. The pirates grab him and take him to a cave, where they torture him to get him to agree to go over to their side. Ayrton does not give up. His friends go to his aid, however, Herbert is seriously injured in the corral, and the friends remain in it, unable to move back with the young man who is dying. A few days later, they still go to the Granite Palace. As a result of the transition, Herbert develops a malignant fever and is dying. Once again, Providence intervenes in their lives and the hand of their kind mysterious friend tosses them the necessary medicine. Herbert recovers completely. The settlers intend to deliver the final blow to the pirates. They go to the corral, where they expect to find them, but they find there the exhausted and barely alive Ayrton, and nearby - the corpses of the robbers. Ayrton says that he does not know how he ended up in the corral, who carried him out of the cave and killed the pirates. However, he gives one sad news. A week ago, the bandits went to sea, but, unable to control the bot, they smashed it on the coastal reefs. The trip to Tabor has to be postponed until a new vehicle is built. For the next seven months, the mysterious stranger remains silent. Meanwhile, a volcano wakes up on the island, which the colonists thought was already dead. They are building a new large ship that, if necessary, could take them to inhabited land.
One evening, already preparing to go to bed, the inhabitants of the Granite Palace hear the bell. The telegraph goes off, which they took from the corral to their home. They are urgently summoned to the corral. There they find a note asking them to go along the additional wire. The cable leads them to a huge grotto, where, to their amazement, they see a submarine. In it, they get to know its owner and their patron, Captain Nemo, the Indian prince Dakkar, who fought all his life for the independence of his homeland. He, already a sixty-year old man who has buried all his comrades-in-arms, is dying. Nemo gives new friends a casket with jewels and warns that when a volcano erupts, the island (such is its structure) will explode. He dies, the settlers close the boat's hatches and lower it under the water, and they themselves tirelessly build a new ship all day long. However, they do not have time to finish it. All living things perish during the explosion of the island, from which only a small reef in the ocean remains. The settlers who spent the night in a tent on the shore are thrown into the sea by an air wave. All of them, with the exception of Jupe, remain alive. For more than ten days they sit on the reef, almost dying of hunger and no longer hoping for anything. Suddenly they see a ship. This is "Duncan". He saves everyone. As it turns out later, Captain Nemo, when the bot was still intact, sailed on it to Tabor and left a note to the rescuers.
Returning to America, with the jewelry donated by Captain Nemo, friends buy a large plot of land and live on it just like they lived on Lincoln Island.

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Oh, this restless Jules Verne ... Fantasy sometimes led him to bold plots, as if snatched from the distant future. This man, who is the most faithful friend of Dumas-son, was the first to write about space travel made with the help of technology. By the way, the Columbiade passenger module he invented, like the real American space shuttle Columbia, is made of aluminum. The world's first nuclear submarine was named the Nautilus, in honor of Captain Nemo's fantastic submarine. The underwater battles anticipated by the science fiction writer and the trip to the Pole became a reality.

Perhaps he anticipated the coming world wars. In the novel "500 Million Begums," the main negative character, German by birth, dreamed of world domination. And in "Paris of the XX century" skyscrapers rise, the townspeople travel by electric trains, and powerful computers work in banks.

You can talk about it endlessly ... However, the topic of this article is a summary of "The Mysterious Island", the world famous book by Jules Verne.

The third robinsonade of the writer

This novel, written by a well-known forty-six-year-old writer, was eagerly awaited by the world readership (Jules Verne ranked second after Agatha Christie in the number of published translated literature). The books by Jules Verne's Robinsonade that preceded him were immensely popular: "20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", as well as "Children of Captain Grant". Robinson's genre, where people are caught in the world wildlife, oppose the circumstances, return to the civilized world, was then especially popular.

Main characters. Acquaintance

A summary of the "Mysterious Island" let's start with a set: prisoners of war, representatives of the army of the North, fleeing from the southerners by flight from Richmond in a balloon, because of the storm on March 23, 1865, they find themselves on an uninhabited island located 7 thousand miles from the continent. Who are the new Robinsons?

Their leader is Cyrus Smith, a scientist and engineer. This is a thin and even bony man of 45 years of age with a short haircut and mustache. He is remarkably brave, having participated in many battles under the command of General Grant. He is accompanied by a deeply respected and loyal servant - the dark-skinned strongman Neb.

A fearless, dynamic and resourceful military journalist of the newspaper “ NY Herald "Gideon Spilett, whose courage and fearlessness amazed even the soldiers. Outwardly, he is a tall, physically strong man of about forty with light, slightly brown sideburns. He, along with Cyrus Smith, is the initiator of the escape. The summary of "The Mysterious Island" introduces them to us as like-minded people, business and determined people, the backbone of the team.

By the will of fate, there was also a real sea wolf with them, a man who knew the sea firsthand - the sailor Pencroff. Together with them, the son of the captain, fifteen-year-old Herbert Brown, who arrived with Pencroft in Richmond, is staying with them. The kind sailor who sailed under the command of his father takes care of young man like a son. He is decisive and quick-witted. It was Pencroff who came up with the risky idea of escape from captivity on a ball.

Balloon crash and rescue

The genre of the book itself presupposes a constructive logic of further events. The summary of "The Mysterious Island" suggests that the plot of the novel, like all Robinsonades, is typical. Its heroes are people who have become victims of circumstances, by the strength of their spirit, thanks to their work, again gaining power over their fate. At the same time, they go through serious trials and challenges.

The balloon with the fugitives took off in a storm. People deliberately took risks, but it was the only way to lull the southerners' vigilance and escape unnoticed. In fact, there was no landing of the ball on the island, there was a wreck. Cyrus Smith and his dog were thrown out of the ball basket separately from the rest of the fugitives. He, exhausted, found himself at a distance of a mile from the coast, was found by his faithful servant Nab. Thus, in a classic way for a Robinsonade: the novel begins with a catastrophe, and, accordingly, its summary.

The mysterious island turned out to be quite hospitable. It is inhabited by plants and animals. Here, fortunately, it was easy enough to find food and shelter.

At first, the travelers found edible bivalve molluscs, lithodes. Rock pigeon eggs were also readily available food. They were discovered by Herbert Brown, who is interested in zoology. There was fresh water on the island, trees grew here. Pencroff weaved an impromptu rope of vines, built a raft fit to cross and float on a river. Thus began the Robinsonade of five resourceful American Northmen.

Settlers' creative activities

Invariably in this kind of novels, housing construction is present in the plot, and a brief content will not bypass it. The mysterious island provides five of them with a whole natural palace - a granite cave, and even with an excellent view that opens up to the observer who is in such a fortress house. After all, the rock where this dwelling was located towered above the rest of the area.

The northerners-colonists are already engaged in crop production on a grand scale (from a miracle of a single grain of wheat found in Herbert's pocket, they grew this grain crop in an amount sufficient for regular baking of bread). The island now provides the settlers in abundance with meat, milk, and clothing. After all, they have tamed mouflons, pigs. They keep the animals in a structure called a coral.

They also tame exotic animals, and this case is mentioned in our summary of the story. The "Mysterious Island" is also inhabited by monkeys. One of them, an orangutan who wandered into their granite dwelling, was tamed. The animal that became attached to them and became their true friend was named Jupe.

Nevertheless, the settlers periodically think that a certain well-wisher is present on the island. Indeed, an invaluable gift for the five Americans was a box with work tools, utensils, small arms and ammunition, which they found in the morning on a strip of the beach. Now the engineering knowledge of Cyrus Smith allowed the Robinsons to establish the production of the most essential.

However, not only information about the improvement of life by settlers contains a summary. Verne transforms his Mysterious Island into a dynamic work by enriching the novel's plot with new characters.

Swimming on about. Camp

The sailor Pencroff, having carefully studied the map, carefully put into a pencil case with tools by an unknown well-wisher, discovered that next to the island where he and his comrades now live, there is another island, Tabor. The seasoned sea wolf realized that it makes sense to examine him. Friends together build a small flat-bottomed boat and begin to explore the waters of this island archipelago. Along with the sailor, there are two other people on board who are interested in Pencroff's idea - the creative journalist Gedeon Spilett and the young Garbert. They discover a "sea letter" - a floating sealed bottle containing a note asking for help. The shipwrecked sailor is waiting for help, staying on about. Camp. This is its summary (Vern builds "The Mysterious Island" according to the principle of a quest). Indeed, having landed on about. Tabor, friends discover this man. He is in an inadequate state of consciousness. Ayrton (that was the name of the former pirate) - a half-feral, overgrown with hair and dressed in rags creature, is trying to attack the young man Garbert. Friends help him out. Ayrton is tied up and sent to Lincoln Island in the Granite Castle (as friends call their cave - dwelling).

Ayrton's story

Care and nutrition did their job: the repentant Ayrton told about his unsightly story. Twelve years ago, being a complete reject of society, together with the same accomplices as himself, he tried to capture the sailing ship "Duncan". Captain Edward Glenarvan spared the criminal, but left him on about. Tabor, telling Ayrton that he would take him, re-educated, someday. Thus, Ayrton served his sentence on the island. This is a very brief summary of his story. The mysterious island became a prison for him.

They returned from Tabor Island in the dark ... The colonists were then saved by a landmark - a fire on the shore. Then they decided that the negro Neb had set it on fire. It turned out - no. He was kindled by a mysterious friend ... (However, the "bottle mail" turned out to be the work of his hands. Ayrton did not write the note.)

Settler farm arrangement

Three years of Cyrus Smith's stay with his comrades on the island were not in vain. They operate a mill, a poultry farm, wheat fields, and a well-established production of woolen products. There is even a telegraph linking the colonists' place of residence with the corral, where they keep the animals.

However, a terrible danger awaits friends: in the bay of the island a pirate battle ship drops its anchor. The forces are clearly unequal. Ayrton, who carried out the night reconnaissance, found that there were 50 pirates on the ship.

War with pirates

The battle scene further embellishes the plot and our summary of The Mysterious Island. Two pirate boats carry the thugs from the sailboat to the shore. The northerners bravely accept the battle. One of the boats, having lost three corsairs, returns. The second, with six fighters, nevertheless moors to the jungle-covered shore, and the pirates hide in the thickets.

The Americans are likely to face disaster. The battle ship of thugs turns in their direction, the guns begin to shoot through the area around them. However, suddenly again an incident occurs that inspires respect for the power of their secret friend. The pirate ship suddenly explodes and sinks instantly. A war mine went off.

Further, the author tells us about the real war with pirates, called by some unknown readers only as Zhulver ("The Mysterious Island"). The summary mentions that it begins with the attacks of the pirates who disembarked from the boat. Relying on the common sense of the robbers deprived of the ship, the northerners did not pursue them. However, the thugs proceeded to their usual business - looting and setting fire to the property of the settlers. They captured Ayrton, who, tormented by his conscience, voluntarily lived not in a granite castle, but near the corral. Cyrus Smith and his comrades came to his aid. However, the pirates manage to severely injure young Garbert. The northerners return to their home. The wounded man has a fever. He is saved by a medicine planted by a mysterious friend.

A summary of Verne's novel "The Mysterious Island" is entering the denouement stage. The settlers finally decide to destroy the uninvited guests. In their opinion, the thugs are in the corral. And indeed it is. However, all the bandits are dead, and next to them is the emaciated Ayrton, who has no idea how he ended up here (the pirates kept him in a cave). The presence of an unknown benefactor is again felt.

Life returns to normal. However, a new danger threatens the settlers: the island volcano gradually begins to wake up and gain strength. The bot was previously smashed against the reefs by pirates. Worried settlers start building big ship to leave the island when needed.

Acquaintance with the secret benefactor

Once in their granite cave, a telegraph from the corral is triggered. Finally, a previously unknown patron decided to meet them! They are called into the corral by him. A note lying there (again an element of the quest) further directs them along the laid cable - to the majestic grotto. Here they are awaited by their patron, sixty-year-old Captain Nemo, who by his origin is the Indian prince Dakar, and by convictions - a fighter for the independence of his homeland. He is old, he is lonely. In the campaigns and in the struggle for the independence of India, his comrades were killed. He is also a creative scientist. The unprecedented submarine "Nautilus" was designed and assembled by him from components produced by various contractors. Sensing the approach of death, Captain Nemo called the settlers to help him do the last thing - to help him be buried in the depths of the sea along with his "Nautilus". This noble man gives our travelers a box of jewelry and something else that has no price. He left a note on the island of Tabor addressed to rescuers. When he dies, the northerners close the hatches and lower the submarine to the bottom. This is a very touching scene.

Final disaster and salvation

Soon, Lincoln Island explodes due to a volcano. The explosion turns out to be of such force that the settlers are thrown out of the tent, where they moved due to the impending ktastrophe, into the water. Verne JG spares no pains for the final scenes (“The Mysterious Island”). The chapter summary ends with a touching salvation. The sailors of the sailing ship "Duncan", which sailed to rescue Ayrton, guided by the note found, remove the settlers from the lifeless reef island, suffering from hunger and thirst for several days.

Returning to their homeland, the Americans convert the jewelry donated by Captain Nemo into material values by purchasing land, livestock, tools and equipment. They are re-creating the same productive economy on the American continent as on the island, and they are successfully running it together.

Output

Jules Verne in his novel "The Mysterious Island" presented his readers with a fascinating story about the American Robinsons. The novelty of the writer is striking. The composition of the book contains a number of artistic techniques characteristic of today's action films. Subsequent scenes are logically connected with the previous ones according to the quest laws. The final catastrophe and miraculous salvation are carefully described.

Innovation, as well as artistic presentation of the novel served as the source of its popularity with millions of readers.