The Mysterious Island Annotated

The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mysterieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1875.

The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Ferat.

The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and In Search of the Castaways (1867-68), though its themes are vastly different from those books.

An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence of the novels Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson.

Verne developed a similar theme in his later novel, Godfrey Morgan (French: L'Ecole des Robinsons, 1882).