Family Without a Name

Family Without a Name

Author	Jules Verne
Original title	Famille-sans-nom
Illustrator	Georges Tiret-Bognet
Country	France
Language	French
Series	The Extraordinary Voyages #33
Genre	Adventure novel
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1889
Published in English	1889
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Preceded by	Two Years' Vacation
Followed by	The Purchase of the North Pole

Family Without a Name (French: Famille-sans-nom) is an 1889 adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada. In the book, the two sons of a traitor fight in the Rebellion in an attempt to make up for the crime of their father.

Publication history

• 1889, USA, New York: J.W. Lovell Co, Pub date 1889; first United States edition, as A Family Without a Name
• 1889, USA, New York: Munro, Pub date 1889; as A Family Without a Name
• 1890, UK, London: Sampson Low, Pub date 1890; first UK edition, as A Family Without a Name
• 1963, UK, London: Arco, Pub date 1963; abridged and edited by I.O. Evans in 2 volumes as Leader of the Resistance and Into the Abyss
• 1982, Canada, Toronto: NC Press ISBN 0-919601-86-3, Pub date 1982; new translation by Edward Baxter

Popular culture

The 1978 edition, published at the French publishing house of the Union générale d'éditions, displayed upon the cover the mention "Pour un Québec libre" (For a Free Quebec). This was a decade after the Vive le Québec libre speech of French President Charles de Gaulle, two years after the first election of a contemporary independence party in Quebec, the Parti Québécois, and two years before their promised referendum on independence occurred in 1980. Lévesque had also made an important state visit to France a year before.

External links

• Pictures of various elaborate book covers of the novel.