A Drama in Mexico
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| "A Drama in Mexico" | |
 An illustration by Jules Férat, 1876 |
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| Author | Jules Verne |
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| 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 English |
1876 |
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 (Les Premiers Navires de la Marine Mexicaine) in Museé des Familles with three illustrations by E. Forest and A. de Bar. The revised version with six illustrations by Férat was published in 1876 together with novel Michel Strogoff as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series. First English translation by W. H. G. Kingston was published in 1876.
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[edit] 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 these to the republican government in Mexico. But on arrival to Acapulco, Lieutenant Martinez and Jose are forced to embark on a cross-country trip to Mexico City that proves fatal to both.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] External links
- Illustrations by Jules Férat
- Un drame au Mexique (1876) available at Jules Verne Collection (French)
