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      the kip brothers

      THE

      WESLEYAN

      EARLY CLASSICS

      OF

      SCIENCE FICTION

      SERIES

      General Editor

      Arthur B. Evans

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      the kip brothers

      JULES VERNE

      Translated by STANFORD L. LUCE

      Edited by ARTHUR B. EVANS

      Introduction and notes by JEAN-MICHEL MARGOT

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, Connecticut

      Published by

      Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      The Wesleyan edition of The Kip Brothers © 2007

      by Wesleyan University Press

      Translation © 2007 by Stanford L. Luce

      Introduction and notes © 2007 by Jean-Michel Margot

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      The illustrations in the novel appeared in the original

      French edition of Les Frères Kip; the ones that are unattributed in the captions are by George Roux.

      Verne, Julies, 1828–1905.

      [Frères Kip. English]

      The Kip brothers / by Jules Verne ;

      translated by Stanford L. Luce ;

      edited by Arthur B. Evans ;

      introduction and notes by Jean-Michel Margot.

      p. cm. — (The Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series)

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-0-8195-6704-8 (cloth : alk. paper) —

      ISBN 978-0-8195-6838-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      I. Luce, Stanford, 1923– II. Evans, Arthur B. III. Margo, Jean-Michel. IV. Title.

      PQ2468.F74e5 2007

      843'.8—dc22

      2006046114

      CONTENTS

       Introduction, ix

      The Kip Brothers

      by Jules Verne

       PART I

       1. Tavern of the Three Magpies, 3

       2. The Brig James Cook, 18

       3. Vin Mod At Work, 28

       4. At Wellington, 45

       5.

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