Jules Verne is a wonderful writer, the creator of a science fiction novel, one of the most read French authors in the world. Since childhood, we have been accompanied by his extraordinary works: “Around the world in eighty days”, “Fifteen-year-old captain”, “Children of Captain Grant”, “Twenty thousand leagues under water”. This edition features one of Jules Verne's best novels, The Mysterious Island. The adventure story is entwined with a storm, a volcanic eruption, pirate attacks and, of course, the story of survival on a piece of land in the middle of the ocean. The resourceful heroes, thrown by the hurricane on a desert island, themselves cook sugar and smelt steel, make bricks, wool, glass, sulfuric and nitric acid, nitroglycerin and dynamite, construct a telegraph and a spinning machine. "Mysterious Island" - an exciting story of adventures of the islanders, a "survival manual", a hymn to human courage and willpower Thanks to the magnificent illustrations of the Czech artist Zdenek Burian (1905-1981), readers will be able to fully experience amazing adventures with the heroes of the novel, make amazing discoveries, feel the joy of victory over the elements.