The Lottery Ticket

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The Lottery Ticket

Author(s)	Jules Verne
Original title	Un Billet de loterie
Translator	Laura E. Kendall
Illustrator	Georges Roux
Country	France
Language	French
Series	The Extraordinary Voyages #28
Genre(s)	Adventure novel
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1886
Published in English	1887
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	N/A
Preceded by	Mathias Sandorf
Followed by	Robur the Conqueror

Note: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) has also written a short story called The Lottery Ticket.

The Lottery Ticket (French: Un Billet de loterie, 1886) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. It was also published in USA under the title Ticket No. "9672".

Publication history [edit]

1886, USA: New York: George Munro, published as Ticket No. "9672"
1886, UK, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.

External links [edit]

Ticket No. "9672" at Project Gutenberg
Un billet de loterie at Project Gutenberg (French)

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