Jules Verne - The Eternal Adam and other Stories

selected by Peter Costello

This narrative from beyond the tomb enabled him to imagine the terrible drama which is forever played throughout the universe, and his heart overflowed with pity.  Bleeding from the countless wounds from which those who had ever lived had suffered before him, bending beneath the weight of these vain efforts accumulated throughout the infinity of time, Zartog Sofr'-Ai-Sr gained, slowley and painfully, an intimate conviction of the eternal recurrence of events.

-from the eternal adam

Contents

Note on the Author and Editor

Introduction

Recollections of Childhood and Youth

The First Ships of the Mexican Navy

A Drama in the Air

Master Zacharius

Doctor Ox’s Experiment

An Ideal City

Dr Trifulgas

Gil Braltar

In the Twenty-Ninth Century

An Express of the Future

The Eternal Adam