The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography

(work in progress)

by

Volker Dehs, Jean-Michel Margot & Zvi Har’El

X. Apocrypha

The following works are said to have been written by Jules Verne. During almost a century, publishers and scholars thought that Jules Verne was the author of these novels. Recent discoveries and researches show that these works were written by other authors: F.-A. Audoin, André Laurie and Michel Verne. After Jules Verne’s death, his son Michel and his publisher Hetzel used most of the remaining manuscripts to publish the well-known posthumes (posthumous) novels. But Michel rewrote all of them, more or less. And, even, he wrote completely new novels, like L’Agence Thompson and C°, which was published under his father’s name.
  1. [PC] Prodigieuse découverte et ses incalculables conséquences sur les destinées du monde. One volume (12 chapters), published under the name of X. Nagrien. Note: This novel was considered to have been written by Jules Verne in France and other countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, where the translated novel was published under Jules Verne’s name) until 1966. Simone Vierne (“L’authenticité de quelques œuvres de Jules Verne”, Rennes, Annales de Bretagne, no. 3, September 1966, pp.445-458) identified the name behind the pseudonym X. Nagrien: François-Armand Audoin.
  2. [EC] L’Épave du Cynthia. One volume (22 chapters), published under the names of Jules Verne and André Laurie (pseudonym of Paschal Grousset). Written in May 1884. Note: There was no teamwork between Verne and Grousset. Jules Verne only did a validation work of Grousset’s text. Hetzel added Verne’s name as a co-author for marketing purposes.
  3. [PM] Le Phare du bout du monde. One volume (15 chapters), based on a novel written by Jules Verne, modified by his son Michel Verne and his publisher Jules Hetzel.
  4. [VO] Le Volcan d’or. Two volumes (15 and 18 chapters), based on a novel written by Jules Verne, modified by his son Michel Verne.
  5. [AG] L’Agence Thompson and C° (Un Voyage économique). Two volumes (15 chapters each), entierly written by Michel Verne (the manuscript has 528 sheets, which make 612 written pages, handwritten by Michel).
  6. [CM] La Chasse au météore. One volume (21 chapters), based on a novel written by Jules Verne, heavily modified by his son Michel Verne.
  7. [PD] Le Pilote du Danube. One volume (19 chapters), based on a novel written by Jules Verne (Le Beau Danube jaune), modified by his son Michel Verne.
  8. [NJ] Les Naufragés du “Jonathan”. Three parts in two volumes (5, 11 and 15 chapters), based on a novel written by Jules Verne (En Magellanie), heavily modified by his son Michel Verne.
  9. [WS] Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz. One volume (19 chapters), based on a novel written by Jules Verne, heavily modified by his son Michel Verne.
  10. [BC] L’Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac. Two volumes (12 and 15 chapters), based on two novels (cf. IV. Other Novels, last two items) planned by Jules Verne and written by his son Michel Verne.
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