William Henry Giles Kingston
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William Henry Giles Kingston, often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels.
Kingston in an 1884 portrait
Cover of In the Rocky Mountains written by W. H. G. Kingston
The Mysterious Island
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The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, serialised from August 1874 to September 1875 and then published in book form in November 1875. The first edition, published by Hetzel, contains illust
William Henry Giles Kingston
…until it was revived in the 20th Century edition of the Dictionary of National Biography in 2004. The Verne books which Mrs. Kingston translated are: The Mysterious Island, Sampson Low et al., 3 volumes: 1875, reprinted by Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., New York, 1 volume: 1876 Michael Strogoff, Sampson Low et al.: 1876…
Cover page of The Mysterious Island
Cyrus Smith blessing Captain Nemo on his death bed in The Mysterious Island
Lobby Card for the 1929 film version of The Mysterious Island, filmed in Technicolor