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Jules Verne is best known for such novels as "20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea," "Around the World in 80 Days," and "Journey to the Center
of the Earth," but he did a great deal of other work as well -- he
published two books a year for decades, and left behind an "oeuvre"
that approaches vast.
In this novel, published in this edition as "An Antarctic
Mystery" but also known as "The Sphinx of the Ice Fields, " Captain
Len Guy's brother is on the ship "Jane" when it goes missing, and
the Captain must convince the crew of the "Halbrane" to take a long
and dangerous trip to Antarctic in hope of finding his brother and
any other survivors of the "Jane." But strange as the journey may
be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at
its end. . . .
During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne
(1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his
own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann
Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson and Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of
Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Arthur Gordon Pym (1845) was only
one of many Poe stories which Verne admired; no other single author
had more impact on his writing. Verne acknowledged this debt in his
only major piece of literary criticism, a detailed 1864 article
entitled Edgard sic] Poe and his work.Poe (1809-1849) was just
emerging on the French literary scene in translation as Verne was
writing his first plays and short stories. Verne was familiar with
a broad range of Poe's works, the well-remembered stories as well
as many that are obscure today. What is to be admired in Poe, Verne
wrote, are the novelties of his situations, the discussion of
little-known facts, the observations of the unhealthy faculties of
Mankind, the choice of subject-matter, the ever-strange personality
of his characters, their nervous, sickly temperaments, their ways
of expressing themselves by bizarre interjections. that grips the
credulity of the reader.
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