Produced by Hemant Garach, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ABANDONED BY JULES VERNE FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS THE PUBLISHERS OF _EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY_ WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES TO BE COMPRISED UNDER THE FOLLOWING TWELVE HEADINGS: TRAVEL SCIENCE FICTION THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY HISTORY CLASSICAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ESSAYS ORATORY POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY ROMANCE IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING, CLOTH, FLAT BACK, COLOURED TOP, AND LEATHER, ROUND CORNERS, GILT TOP. LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. [Illustration: THIS IS FAIRY GOLD, BOY; AND 'TWILL PROVE SO. SHAKESPEARE.] [Illustration: ABANDONED By JULES VERNE _Translated from the French_ By W. H. G. KINGSTON LONDON: PUBLISHED by J. M. DENT & CO AND IN NEW YORK BY E. P. DUTTON & CO] INTRODUCTION The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of _L'Abandonné_. Jules Verne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes--a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions. _L'Abandonné_, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a serial through the _Magasin Illustré_ of education and recreation, before its issue as a boy's story-book. Its success in both forms seems to have established a record in the race for popularity and a circulation in both the French and English fields of current literature. The present book was translated into English by the late W. H. G. Kingston; and is printed in EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY by special exclusive arrangement with Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. 1909 The list of tales and favourite romances by Jules Verne includes the following:--