humanity. (Nemo, we learn in a sequel, is an Indian prince who has suffered the injustice of British colonialism.) And though he despairs of the future, NemoΓÇÖs efforts represent an underlying commitment in science, nature and the human.
From the 1870ΓÇÖs until his death in 1905, however, VerneΓÇÖs work increasingly offers darker, more somber views of these same themes. The Mysterious Island (1882) traces the implications of a romantic vision of being cast alone in an overly bountiful Nature. In Robur the Conqueror (1887) and its sequel, Master of the World (1904), Verne draws a megalomanical inventor of a flying machine (the grimmer version of Captain Nemo and the Nautilus) who, like H. G. WellΓÇÖs Dr. Moreau,
