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Mysterious Island

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"Mysterious Island" is the final book of the "Captain Nemo Trilogy". A terrible hurricane helps to save the heroes, but takes them to a distant uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. How our forced "Robinson" will survive in the jungles of the island, what and who they will find there - you will learn from the final part of the trilogy. All illustrations are made by the famous book graphic artist Peter Lugansky, an artist who perfectly conveys the exciting story with pen and brush.
The novel "The Mysterious Island" was published six years after the publication of "The Children of Captain Grant". He became the last in the famous trilogy of Jules Verne, which is united by common characters. It continues to act Captain Nemo, who appeared in the second novel of the trilogy - "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". The novel "Mysterious Island" can be attributed to the unfading genre of "robinsonade", the progenitor of which was Daniel Defoe, who wrote "Robinson Crusoe". In Jules Verne's novel, the heroes are also forced to survive on an island, which in addition hides an incredible secret. The writer from childhood dreamed of traveling. He realized his dream by starting to wander together with the heroes of his novels. The thirst to learn a different life forced Jules Verne to spend almost all his free time in the halls of the National Library. It was from books that the novice writer drew the most diverse knowledge. He began to write plays, but found his niche in literature, only when he began to compose adventure novels, generously laced with historical excursions and geographical descriptions of various countries. In collaboration with publisher Pierre-Jules Etzel, Jules Verne created a whole series of "Extraordinary Voyages". Some of the works included in it we would call science fiction today. The edition of the novel in this book is decorated with illustrations by the wonderful artist Peter Ivanovich Lugansky. They bribe with their authenticity. After all, this is how the jungle with its vines and huge ferns or bluish spurs of mountains on the horizon look. Lugansky is always accurate when depicting the costumes of Jules Verne's heroes or the rigging of sailing ships. Meanwhile, Peter Ivanovich never left the borders of his country. The future artist was born in 1911 in pre-revolutionary Russia, in the small village of Bokovo, located on the banks of the Bolshaya Kamenka River. At that time it was the territory of Lugansk province. Peter's parents were simple people and had nothing to do with art. After graduating from the oldest art school in Kharkov, Lugansky began working in Leningrad, where he collaborated with the magazine "Koster", publishing houses "Detgiz" and "Lenizdat". Probably deep immersion in the colorful, created by writers virtual world brightened Lugansky own not too happy life. The war separated him from his family, and until the end of his days the artist lived alone and rather isolated, spending most of his time in his studio in the famous House of Artists on Pesochnaya Embankment.
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