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A Floating City

Author(s)	Jules Verne
Original title	Une ville flottante
Illustrator	Jules Férat
Country	France
Language	French
Series	The Extraordinary Voyages #8
Genre(s)	Adventure novel
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1871
Published in English	1874
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	N/A
Preceded by	Around the Moon
Followed by	The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa

A Floating City (French: Une ville flottante) is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published in 1871. It tells of a woman who, on board the ship Great Eastern with her husband, finds that the man she loves is also on board.

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Une ville flottante

Illustrations by Jules Férat

Works by Jules Verne

Voyages Extraordinaires

1860s	Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866) A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) From the Earth to the Moon (1865) In Search of the Castaways (1867–68) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–70)

1870s	Around the Moon (1870) A Floating City (1871) The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1872) The Fur Country (1873) Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) The Mysterious Island (1874–75) The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875) Michael Strogoff (1876) Off on a Comet (1877) The Child of the Cavern (1877) Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (1878) The Begum's Millions (1879) Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (1879)

1880s	The Steam House (1880) Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias Sandorf (1885) The Lottery Ticket (1886) Robur the Conqueror (1886) North Against South (1887) The Flight to France (1887) Two Years' Vacation (1888) Family Without a Name (1889) The Purchase of the North Pole (1889)

1890s	César Cascabel (1890) Mistress Branican (1891) The Carpathian Castle (1892) Claudius Bombarnac (1892) Foundling Mick (1893) Captain Antifer (1894) Propeller Island (1895) Facing the Flag (1896) Clovis Dardentor (1896) An Antarctic Mystery (1897) The Mighty Orinoco (1898) The Will of an Eccentric (1899)

1900s	The Castaways of the Flag (1900) The Village in the Treetops (1901) The Sea Serpent (1901) The Kip Brothers (1902) Traveling Scholarships (1903) A Drama in Livonia (1904) Master of the World (1904) Invasion of the Sea (1905)

Other works

Novels	The 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)

Collections	Doctor 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)

Non-fiction	Histoire des grands voyages et des grands voyageurs

Characters and universe

Characters	Aouda Tom Ayrton David Farragut Phileas Fogg Lord Glenarvan Captain Nemo Jacques Paganel Jean Passepartout Cyrus Smith

Universe	Leyden ball Nautilus Verneshot

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