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The Underground City or The Black Indies (Sometimes Called the Child of the Cavern)

Jules Verne

First published 2008
Publisher Project Gutenberg
Format eBook
Type Novel
Catalog ID 1355
Price $0.00

{{Tr|W. H. G. Kingston}}, first published in 1877 as The Child of the Cavern; or, Strange Doings Underground.

This translation begins: "To Mr. F. R. Starr, Engineer, 30, Canongate, Edinburgh. If Mr. James Starr will come to-morrow to the Aberfoyle coal-mines, Dochart pit, Yarrow shaft, a communication of an interesting nature will be made to him." ["F. R." appears to be an error. The text continues using "James Starr".]

Interior half-title page [277] of the 1911 Parke edition displays four lines, the last small size:   The Underground City   or   The Black Indies   (Sometimes Called the Child of the Cavern)


Data from publisher website The ebook (viewed in HTML format) opens with a title screen that displays, above bibliographic data for vol. 9 in the 1911 F. Tyler Daniels ed. of Works of Jules Verne (see at ISFDB), four lines, the last small size:   The Underground City   or   The Black Indies   (Sometimes Called the Child of the Cavern)

Presumably the Gutenberg text is a transcript of that from the F. Tyler Daniels omnibus, but limited to the second of two novels in Works 9, namely The Underground City or The Black Indies. Gutenberg #1353 (see) evidently contains transcripts of the Introduction and the first of two novels.