Yesterday and Tomorrow

Yesterday and Tomorrow
Author	Jules Verne
Original title	Hier et Demain
Language	French
Series	Voyages Extraordinaires
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1910
Publication place	France
Published in English	1965
Media type	Print

Yesterday and Tomorrow (French: Hier et Demain) is a posthumous collection of short stories by Jules Verne, first published in 1910 by Louis-Jules Hetzel.

The stories in the original French edition were edited and/or modified by the author's son, Michel Verne.^[1]

La Famille Raton [fr] (The Rat family)
M. Ré-Dièze et Mlle Mi-Bémol [fr] (Mr Ray Sharp and Miss Me Flatt)
La Destinée de Jean Morénas [fr] (The Sombre Fate of Jean Morenas)
Le Humbug [fr] (The Humbug)
La Journée d’un journaliste américain en 2889 (In the Twentieth Century: the Day of an American Journalist in 2889)
L’Éternel Adam (The Eternal Adam)

In the English editions of this book (Yesterday and Tomorrow), a different set of titles are present:^[2]

The Eternal Adam
The Fate of Jean Morenas
An Ideal City (added)
Ten Hours Hunting (added)
Frritt-Flacc (added)
Gil Braltar (added)
In the Twentieth Century: the Day of an American Journalist in 2889
Mr. Ray Sharp and Miss Me Flat

In the introduction to the English edition, editor I. O. Evans said that he chose replace two stories as they were "lacking in general interest". He described the first omitted story, "La Famille Raton", as "so absurdly fantastic that one cannot be certain whether Verne meant it seriously'" and said that "Le Humbug" required "no translation".^[3]

References

^ Dehs, Volker; Margot, Jean-Michel; Har’El, Zvi. "The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography". Zvi Har’El’s Jules Verne Collection.
^ "Yesterday and Tomorrow". julesverne.ca.
^ Evans, Idrisyn Oliver (1965). "Introduction". Yesterday and Tomorrow. ARCO Publications.