Cyrus Smith or Cyrus Smith ( Cyrus Smith ; in some English translations and adaptations of Cyrus Harding, Cyrus Harding ) is one of the main characters in Jules Verne’s novel “ The Mysterious Island ”.
| Cyrus Smith | |
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| English Cyrus smith | |
blank300.png | 1px]] Colonists on the Nautilus , in the center - Cyrus Smith (fragment ill. Jules Ferah 1874) | |
| Creator | Jules Verne |
| Artworks | " Mysterious island " |
| First mention | 1874 (1st chapter of a journal publication by PJ. Etzel ) |
| Floor | male |
| Age | about 45 years (as part of a novel) |
| Occupation | scientist, engineer, military |
| The role is performed | Alexey Krasnopolsky (1941) Michael Craig (1961) Gerard Tichy (1973) Kyle McLachlan (2005) |
In civilian life, a scientist, during the Civil War in the United States (at the beginning of the plot), is a railway engineer and officer in the army of the northerners . Possesses a significant domestic and scientific and technological knowledge base, is an excellent literary example of an engineer of the XIX century. His practical knowledge of physics , chemistry , botany , navigation, and many other fields allows the involuntary colonists of the newly named Lincoln Island to quickly create a thriving mini-civilization in isolation from the rest of the world.
Literature
- Jules Verne. Mysterious Island. M. 1983.
- William Butcher. Jules Verne. The Definitive Biography . - New York: Thunder's Mouth Press , 2006 .-- ISBN 978-1-56025-854-4 .
- Joseph Acquisto. Chapter 2: What Is the Moral of this Story? The Popular Robinsonnade in the Nineteenth Century // Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures . - University of Delaware Press / Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2012. - P. 102-110. - 186 p. - ISBN 978-1-66149-407-5 .