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  <title><![CDATA[The Mysterious Island (Modern Library Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Las aventuras de cinco prisioneros del ej&#233;rcito del Sur, durante la guerra de Secesi&#243;n, que huyen en un globo, pero una tromba marina los arroja en una isla. Alli se encontrar&#225;n con todos los personajes de Los hijos del Capitan Grant y de Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino.

Ilustraciones: Andr&#233;s Jullian.
Contiene: Biograf&#237;a de Julio Verne. Comentario de Maria Eugenia Gongora sobre el autor y su obra. Sugerencias para la lectura con variados ejercicios.
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1874</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>La isla misteriosa</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jules Verne]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[MacGyver, Inspector Gadget, Superman, and two of the dudes from the movie Witness who know how to build a farm in a day, along with Underdog and Albert Einstein disguised as an orangutan, team up to turn a barren island into a global superpower with a Wal-Mart.  Apparently, you take a break from lay...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54539332">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Last year I participated with a group of friends in doing a Secret Santa. This was the book that my Santa gave me (as well as Gulliver's Travels). I think it was because of the fact I was moaning about the lack of any Verne on Maui. I am SOOOOO glad my santa chose this book for me. It was amazing. Y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35639971">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh my God.  Some dudes are castaway on this island and I cannot put real words together to explain why I wanted to kill this book.  So here are some select Twitters from when I was reading it:<br/><br/>* I find it a little horrifying that the castaways in Verne's 'Mysterious Island' never use bone...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27160979">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A little while ago, I picked up The Mysterious Island mainly because it was one of the only books by Jules Verne that I knew almost nothing about. I took great care not to learn in advance what made the island so mysterious or really, anything about the plot at all.<br/><br/>This book is at its he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27286211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11033361">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book as a young boy and loved it! The adventure, the science, the making something out of practically nothing, the surviving the elements - as a young boy with a real desire for adventure and an interest in science I was hooked. I thought that Jules Verne was the greatest dude to h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11033361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30381217">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book by jules Verne was the first one I had read by  this author. It has become one of my favorites. When I first started, the beginning was already suspenceful because of all the twists like the captain being swept off their hot air balloon. The Island, I thought, was strange since the shape s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30381217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3535827">
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    <body><![CDATA[I originally picked this book up because it's specifically referenced in the TV show &quot;Lost&quot; and since I love science fiction, I figured I should check it out. I was not dissappointed. This is a spellbinding French epic and a critique of America, the Industrial revolution and the limits of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3535827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42001953">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Mysterious Island&quot; is the second book in the Early Classics of Science Fiction series which is being published by Wesleyan University Press. This novel is a much better choice for the series than Verne's &quot;Invasion of the Sea&quot;. Although not as well known as some of Verne's no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42001953">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64409813">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't actually realize until looking at the book I read just this moment that mine was abridged. Apparently the real thing is something like 700 pages (mine was 300). Wow. <br/><br/>Anyway, it was great! I little more &quot;sciency&quot; than totally suits my fancy, but it was good for me. If I h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64409813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61279176">
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    <body><![CDATA[Do NOT use this book as a survival manual!!  <br/><br/>Right, now that we have that straightened out...what a book! I write this review with tongue in cheek, just as the author must have written this book. Why? well...<br/><br/>Five Union prisoners of war escape Richmond, VA in a Rebel spy ballo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61279176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46588104">
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    <name><![CDATA[Todd]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think overall this is a stellar book, if you like swashbuckling adventures that have it all!-with a little bit of mystery of course and a lot of science.<br/>It takes a bit of work to get into but true to Verne's nature, he is extremely descriptive, and loses no time in settling into the day to d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46588104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63075422">
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    <body><![CDATA[       Have you ever wondered who Captain Nemo really was? Where he lived and why he hated mankind? Here’s your chance to find out! In this sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, we are introduced to five men who escaped from the Confederate possessed city, Richmond in a hot air balloon, and land...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63075422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67847574">
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    <body><![CDATA[The girls and I took weeks to read this, one chapter per night (sometimes more) wondering WHAT was making all these things happen?! WHO was saving these poor souls? The language was difficult for the girls, but after talking them through it for the first night, they quickly picked up the rhythm and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67847574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41055675">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my top 5 all time.   It's 1 of only 3 books in my life that I have read twice.   What's cool about this one is that I read it when I was young, I can'recall exactly but probably about age 20 or younger.  I read it again this year at age 54, and it ruled again.  I purposely read it slowly to e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41055675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72082482">
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had read this book as a novel, I don't think I would have gotten through it. But I read the intro first, that explained that it was a philosophical look at how man could survive if thrown into a reality where all modern conveniences were gone. With this mindset in place, I thoroughly enjoyed th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72082482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73088439">
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read the introduction because it was written by Caleb Carr. I never read introductions.<br/><br/>I wonder why the people on Lost couldn't whip themselves up a working island with a house, a telegraph, a boat, fields of food, and a sheepfold. I mean, come on, it was right after the Civil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73088439">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty good read, in general.  The storyline keeps your attention very well, with lots of action from beginning to end.  Jules Verne is very good at describing very technical things in an easily understood way.  However, there are some parts that cause one to think that he is a creationist and oth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60843838">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I normally love this style of book. I love reading about people getting stranded on islands who find a way of surviving, but this book was ridiculous. Maybe I was reading to fast or something.<br/> The people in this story somehow made it all the way from Richmond Virginia to the Pacific Ocean in a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31347581">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd give this three and a half stars if I could; Verne has a knack for mixing just enough fact into his fiction to convince you it <em>could</em> be real, but the flip side is that the fact is often so ... boring.  Paragraph upon paragraph describing how castaways made some chemical or another is probably in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31169408">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved everything about this book (well, almost everything--not the racist portrayal of Neb--but it's somewhat understandable--an Uncle Tom's Cabin sort of thing in which Verne thinks he's not being racist. His opinion of colonialism  is also a bit muddled, but more progressive than say,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26251731">more...</a>]]></body>
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