Doctor Ox

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For the opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, see Le docteur Ox.

Doctor Ox

Author	Jules Verne
Original title	Le Docteur Ox
Illustrator	Lorenz Froelich, Théophile Schuler, Émile-Antoine Bayard, Adrien Marie, Barbant, and Edmond Yon
Country	France
Language	French
Series	Voyages Extraordinaires
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1874
Media type	Print

Doctor Ox (French: Le Docteur Ox) is a collection of short stories by Jules Verne, first published in 1874 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel.

It consists of four varied works by Verne:

"Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox" ("Dr. Ox's Experiment," 1872), illustrated by Lorenz Froelich
"Maître Zacharius" ("Master Zacharius," 1854), illustrated by Théophile Schuler
"Un drame dans les airs" ("A Drama in the Air," 1851), illustrated by Émile-Antoine Bayard
"Un hivernage dans les glaces" ("A Winter Amid the Ice," 1855), illustrated by Adrien Marie and Barbant

The collection also includes a preface by Pierre-Jules Hetzel and a story, "Quarantième ascension au mont Blanc" ("Fortieth Ascent of Mont Blanc"), written by Verne's brother Paul and illustrated by Edmond Yon.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Dehs, Volker; Jean-Michel Margot, Zvi Har’El. "The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography: II. Short Stories". Jules Verne Collection. Zvi Har’El. Retrieved 11 February 2013. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)
↑ Paul, René. "The Illustrated Jules Verne: The Original Illustrations of the Voyages Extraordinaires". Jules Verne Collection. Zvi Har’El. Retrieved 22 April 2013.

External links

Le Docteur Ox at Project Gutenberg

A Winter Amid the Ice at Project Gutenberg (translation by George Makepeace Towle)

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 Wilhelm Storitz (1910) The Barsac Mission (1919) Backwards to Britain (1989, written 1859) 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)

Plays	The Broken Straws (1850) Mona Lisa (1852) Blind Man's Buff (1853) The Adoptive Son (1853 Knights of the Daffodil (1855) Mr. Chimpanzee (1858) The Inn in the Ardennes (1860) Eleven Days' Siege (1861) A Nephew from America (1873) Around the World in 80 Days (1874) The Children of Captain Grant (1878) Michael Strogoff (1880) Journey Through the Impossible (1882) Kéraban the Pigheaded (1883)

Non-fiction	Géographie illustrée de la France et de ses colonies (1866–68) Découverte de la Terre: Histoire générale des grands voyages et des grands voyageurs (1870–80)

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 HMS Sword

Bibliography
Book:Jules Verne
Category:Jules Verne
Portal:Literature

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