Robur the Conqueror

Languages and editions

• Português · Cristóvão Aires, 1890
• Français · texte original, Hetzel 1904
• English · historical translation, 23 chapters

Historical English version in 23 chapters, with abridgments and changes compared with the French original. All 23 chapters of this source are included. The 2017 translation by Alex Kirstukas is a separate copyrighted edition, linked for reference only.

Chapters

1. MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS
2. AGREEMENT IMPOSSIBLE
3. A VISITOR IS ANNOUNCED
4. IN WHICH A NEW CHARACTER APPEARS
5. ANOTHER DISAPPEARANCE
6. THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY SUSPEND HOSTILITIES
7. ON BOARD THE ALBATROSS
8. THE BALLOONISTS REFUSE TO BE CONVINCED
9. ACROSS THE PRAIRIE
10. WESTWARD—BUT WHITHER?
11. THE WIDE PACIFIC
12. THROUGH THE HIMALAYAS
13. OVER THE CASPIAN
14. THE AERONEF AT FULL SPEED
15. A SKIRMISH IN DAHOMEY
16. OVER THE ATLANTIC
17. THE SHIPWRECKED CREW
18. OVER THE VOLCANO
19. ANCHORED AT LAST
20. THE WRECK OF THE ALBATROSS
21. THE INSTITUTE AGAIN
22. THE GO-AHEAD IS LAUNCHED
23. THE GRAND COLLAPSE

Source and rights

Historical anonymous English translation (1887), text digitized from the 1911 Vincent Parke edition

Anonymous historical translator; English version first published in 1887

Public-domain French work by Jules Verne (died 1905), in the anonymous historical English translation published in 1887. The Brazilian term for anonymous works under article 43 of Law 9.610/1998 has elapsed.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3808

This edition preserves the racial stereotypes and colonial hierarchies of the historical text. The treatment of Frycollin and the Dahomey episode call for close attention to the narrator’s position and the presentation of violence as spectacle.

Modern reference edition

English translation by Alex Kirstukas (2017). External bibliographic reference; reproduction requires permission.