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Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South is an 1887 Jules Verne novel set during the American Civil War. It follows James Burbank, an antislavery northerner living near Jacksonville, Florida, whose plantation is destroyed by a pro-slavery southerner named Texar. The plot centers on the kidnapping of Burbank's daughter Dy and caretaker Zermah, and the mystery of whether two different men share the identity of Texar.
Nord Contre Sud was first published in a fully illustrated edition in November 1887 by J. Hetzel et Cie in Paris. An American translation by Laura E. Kendall, published by George Munro in New York, appeared the same year under the title Texar's Vengeance, quickly revised to Texar's Revenge.
American critics found the novel padded and historically unreliable. One reviewer called it a very thin streak of narrative padded to almost unwieldy proportions by a quantity of remarkably inaccurate information about the rebellion, referring to Verne's errors regarding the American Civil War.
The first American English translation was done by Laura E. Kendall, published by George Munro in New York in 1887 as part of the Seaside Library series. A separate anonymous English translation was published in London in December 1887 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington.
The original French title is Nord Contre Sud. In English the book has appeared as Texar's Vengeance, Texar's Revenge, The Texar's Revenge, and North Against South. Some editions split it into two volumes titled Burbank the Northerner and Texar the Southerner.
The first fully illustrated English edition published in the United States appeared in 2007. The Choptank Press of St. Michaels, Maryland released it through Lulu Press as a replica republication of the 1887 Sampson Low London first edition.