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• iv • Note on the Author and Editor • essay by uncredited
• v • Introduction (The Eternal Adam and Other Stories) • essay by Peter Costello
• 3 • Recollections of Childhood and Youth • essay by Jules Verne
• 11 • The First Ships of the Mexican Navy • (1964) • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Un drame au Mexique 1876)
• 32 • A Drama in the Air • (1874) • short story by Jules Verne (trans. of Un drame dans les airs 1851)
• 50 • Master Zacharius • (1874) • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Maître Zacharius ou l'horloger qui avait perdu son âme 1854)
• 82 • The Humbug: The American Way of Life • (1996) • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Le Humbug 1910)
• 108 • Doctor Ox's Experiment • (1874) • novella by Jules Verne (trans. of Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox 1872)
• 160 • An Ideal City • (1965) • short story by Jules Verne (trans. of Une ville idéale 1875)
• 177 • Dr Trifulgas • short story by Jules Verne (trans. of Frritt-Flacc 1886)
• 184 • Gil Braltar • (1958) • short story by Jules Verne (trans. of Gil Braltar 1887)
• 191 • In the Twenty-Ninth Century: The Day of an American Journalist in the Year 2889 • short story by Jules Verne and Michel Verne (trans. of La journée d'un journaliste américain en 2890 1890)
• 207 • An Express of the Future • short story by Michel Verne (trans. of Un express de l'avenir 1888) [as by Jules Verne and Michel Verne]
• 211 • The Eternal Adam • novelette by Jules Verne and Michel Verne (trans. of L'éternel Adam 1910)