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Supposedly, the owner of the New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett, Jr, asked Jules Verne to write a short story projecting what life would look like in a thousand years. If written by Jules Verne, it would be one of his few short stories, and the only one first written in English. The story takes place on 25 September 2889. [2]
Jules Gabriel Verne (/ v ɜːr n /; [1] [2] French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) [3] was a French novelist, poet and playwright.. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, [3] a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues ...
Jules Verne, circa 1856 Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Most famous for his novel sequence , the Voyages Extraordinaires , Verne also wrote assorted short stories, plays, miscellaneous novels, essays, and poetry.
Jules Verne remains to this day the most translated science fiction author in the world [7] as well as one of the most continually reprinted and widely read French authors. Though often scientifically outdated, his Voyages still retain their sense of wonder that appealed to readers of his time, and still provoke an interest in the sciences ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Works by Jules Verne" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Walter James Miller (January 16, 1918 – June 20, 2010) was an American literary critic, playwright, poet, translator and publisher. The author, co-author, editor and/or translator of more than sixty books, including four landmark annotated translations of novels by Jules Verne, Miller taught at Hofstra University, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Colorado State University, and ...
Compared to other Verne novels, it is a relatively unknown work. Very common throughout Clovis Dardentor is Verne's usage of a comedic, slightly burlesque tone in the narration and in the characters' dialogues (something which the narrator confirms at a certain point of the novel). The original illustrations were drawn by designer Léon Benett.
Family Without a Name (French: Famille-sans-nom) is an 1889 adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada. In the book, the two sons of a traitor fight in the Rebellion in an ...