Mistress Branican

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Title page of the French original edition with an illustration by the illustrator Léon Benett
Illustration from the novel by the draftsman Léon Benett

Mistress Branican (also Mrs. Branican ) is a novel by the French author Jules Verne . The novel was first published as a book in 1891 by the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel under the French title Mistress Branican , Volume I on August 3, 1891 and Volume II on November 9, 1891. A preliminary publication took place in the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation in volumes 53 and 54 from January 1 to December 15, 1891. The first German-language edition appeared in 1891 under the title Mistress Branican . The English title of the novel is Mistress Branican .

action

In March 1875, the sailing ship Franklin, under its captain John Branican, left the port of San Diego in California . His destination is Calcutta , India , but after many months there are no more signs of life from the ship and its crew. The ship and its crew are ultimately lost. The captain's young wife, twenty-one year old Dolly Branican, refuses to accept it. She has already gone through difficult times in her young life. Her son Wat died in a shipwreck and she herself is close to death. The hope that her husband is still alive keeps her alive herself. She lived mentally deranged for several years and gave birth to her second son, Godfrey, from whom she was separated and of whose existence she knew nothing. With the money from an inheritance from her uncle, she finances several search expeditions. She is firmly convinced that she will find her husband John. After several years there is still no trace of John. But then she learns that natives are supposed to keep her husband prisoner in Australia . The greatest danger in the search expedition comes from Jane's cousin Dolly's husband. Len Burker intends to kill John and Dolly to get their inheritance. But in the end, John and Dolly live, but Len and Jane die. John and Dolly are reunited and before Jane dies, Jane learns that Godfrey is her son. The Branican family is reunited and everything is turning out for the better.

literature

  • Heinrich Pleticha (ed.): Jules Verne manual . Deutscher Bücherbund / Bertelsmann, Stuttgart and Munich 1992.
  • Volker Dehs and Ralf Junkerjürgen: Jules Verne . Voices and interpretations of his work. Fantastic Library Wetzlar, Wetzlar 2005.
  • Volker Dehs: Jules Verne . Jules Verne. A critical biography. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2005. ISBN 3-538-07208-6

Web links

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