The Lighthouse at the End of the World
The Lighthouse at the End of the World (French: Le Phare du bout du monde) is an adventure novel by French author
The novel was adapted into the 1971 movie, The Light at the Edge of the World.
Plot summary
Verne sets the plot by stating, "The
Unbeknownst to Vasquez, Moriz, and Felipe, the chief lighthouse keeper and his helpers, the island was the domain of a dozen marooned pirates, who bide their time in wrecking.[2]: 48–52
Two of them are murdered by a band of newly arrived pirates led by one Kongre. Vasquez, the only survivor, spends several months until the dispatch boat Santa-Fé is due to return, surviving off the pirates' hidden stores of food in a cave. After the Century, an American ship from Mobile, Alabama, crashes on the island due to the light's having been put out by the pirates, Vasquez bands with the sole survivor of the wreck – First Officer John Davis – to stop the pirates from escaping into the South Pacific.
They manage to
Vasquez and Davis, however, return to the lighthouse and turn the light back on. The troop of pirates tries to regain the lighthouse and kill the two, but they find the bolted iron door to the staircase too reinforced to break down. Kongre, the band's leader, orders Carcante and the carpenter to climb the side of the lighthouse and murder Vasquez and Davis at the top, but they are shot as soon as their heads peek over the
See also
References
- ISBN 978-1-56025-854-4.
- ^ ISBN 9781589630949.
Further reading
- Google Books online version
- Verne, Jules & Butcher, William (Translator). Lighthouse at the End of the World (Translation of Jules Verne's original manuscript with introduction, notes and appendices ed.). Nebraska University Press.
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- Dehs, Volker; Margot, Jean Michel; Har'El, Zvi. "The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography X. Apocrypha". The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography. Retrieved 19 December 2006.