- A Drama in Mexico
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"A Drama in Mexico"
An illustration by Jules Férat, 1876Author(s) Jules Verne Original title Un drame au Mexique Translator W. H. G. Kingston Illustrator E. Forest and A. de Bar Country France Language French Genre(s) historical short story Publication date 1851 Published in
English1876 A Drama in Mexico (French: Un drame au Mexique) is a historical short story by Jules Verne. In a letter to his father Verne wrote that it "is but a simple adventure-story in the style of Cooper which I am locating in Mexico."[1]
The story was first published in July 1851 under the title "The First Ships of the Mexican Navy" ("L'Amérique du Sud. Etudes historiques. Les Premiers Navires de la Marine Mexicaine") in Musée des familles with three illustrations by Eugène Forest and Alexandre de Bar. The revised version with six illustrations by Férat was published in 1876 together with the novel Michel Strogoff as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series. The first English translation by W. H. G. Kingston was published in 1876.
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Plot outline
In 1825, off the islands of Guam on a passage from Spain, Lieutenant Martinez, and his associates plot a mutiny on board of two Spanish warships. Conspirators murder Captain Don Orteva, take command of the ships, and plan to sell them to the republican government in Mexico. But on arrival in Acapulco, Lieutenant Martinez and Jose are forced to embark on a cross-country trip to Mexico City that proves fatal to both.[clarification needed]
Publication history
as "The Mutineers: A Romance of Mexico" (translated by W. H. G. Kingston) in
- 1876 - Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar; and The Mutineers: A Romance of Mexico, London: Sampson Low
- 1877 - New York: Scribners (translation "revised" by Julius Chambers)
as "The Mutineers, or A Tragedy of Mexico" in
- 1911 - Works of Jules Verne, Vol. 1, New York: Vincent Parke, ed. Charles F. Horne
as "A Drama in Mexico" in
- 1964 - Dr. Ox, and Other Stories, London: Arco/Westport, CT: Associated Booksellers: Fitzroy Edition, ed. I. O. Evans
as "The First Ships of the Mexican Navy" in
- 1999 - The Eternal Adam, and Other Stories, London: Phoenix, ed. Peter Costello
References
- ^ Letter from Jules Verne to his father, dated March, 1851. Reprinted in "Jules Verne: 63 Letters," Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne 11-13 (1938): 64.
External links
- Illustrations by Jules Férat (1876)
- Un drame au Mexique (1876) available at Jules Verne Collection (French)
Works by Jules Verne Other works NovelsThe Waif of the Cynthia (1885) · The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1905) · The Golden Volcano (1906) · The Thompson Travel Agency (1907) · The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908) · The Danube Pilot (1908) · The Survivors of the "Jonathan" (1909) · The Secret of William Storitz (1910) · The Barsac Mission (1919) · Paris in the Twentieth Century (1994, written 1863)
CollectionsDoctor Ox (1874) · Yesterday and Tomorrow (1910)Short stories"A Drama in Mexico" (1851) · "A Drama in the Air" (1851) · "Martin Paz" (1852) · "Master Zacharius" (1854) · "A Winter Amid the Ice" (1855) · "The Count of Chanteleine" (1864) · "The Blockade Runners" (1865) · "Dr. Ox's Experiment" (1872) · "An Ideal City" (1875) · "The Mutineers of the Bounty" (1879) · "Ten Hours Hunting" (1881) · "Frritt-Flacc" (1884) · "Gil Braltar" (1887) · "In the Year 2889" (1889) · "Adventures of the Rat Family" (1891) · "Mr. Ray Sharp and Miss Me Flat" (1893) · "The Eternal Adam" (1910)
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- Works originally published in Musée des familles
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