Cyrus Smith

Cyrus Smith (named Cyrus Harding in some English translations) is one of the protagonists of Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island. He is an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is a very skilled man, a fine literary example of 19th century engineer.

Cyrus Smith is also a man possessed of the kind of high moral qualities common in Verne's protagonists. He is selfless, noble, honest, courageous, and utterly devoted to his companions. His practical knowledge of physics, chemistry, botany, navigation, and many other fields enables the Mysterious Island's colonists quickly to establish a thriving mini-civilization in isolation from the rest of the world. Smith is, however, annoyed and secretive regarding the fact that the colony has been mysteriously saved many times by a benefactor who refuses to reveal himself, causing his own achievements to seem less significant.

In the 2002 novel Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius by Kevin J. Anderson, he is one of the officials captured by Robur (another Verne creation, from the novels Robur the Conqueror and Master of the World) during the Crimean War, along with Captain Nemo and Passepartout.

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)
  • 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)
Non-fiction
  • Histoire des grands voyages et des grands voyageurs
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
  • Book:Jules Verne
  • Category:Jules Verne
  • Portal:Literature
Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island
Characters
  • Captain Nemo
  • Cyrus Smith
Films
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
  • The Mysterious Island (1929)
  • Mysterious Island (1941)
  • Mysterious Island (1951 serial)
  • Mysterious Island (1961)
  • Mysterious Island (2005)
  • Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Television
  • La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo
  • Mysterious Island
Games
  • Myst
  • Return to Mysterious Island
  • Return to Mysterious Island 2
Series
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • In Search of the Castaways
Related
  • Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius
  • Mysterious Island
  • The Stolen Airship
  • Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
  • Nautilus

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