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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 .
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 Though often scientifically outdated, his Voyages still retain their sense of wonder that appealed to readers of his time, and still provoke an interest in the sciences ...
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 ...
As their mission is proceeding, the Crimean War breaks out, and the members of the expedition find themselves citizens of enemy countries. This novel can be found under alternate titles such as Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth , Measuring a Meridian , and Meridiana or Adventures in South Africa .
In 1874, with six illustrations by Émile-Antoine Bayard, it was included in Doctor Ox, the only collection of Jules Verne's short stories published during Verne's lifetime. An English translation by Anne T. Wilbur , published in May 1852 in Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature , marked the first time a work by Jules Verne was translated into ...
Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South (French: Nord contre Sud) is the full title of the English translation of the novel written by the French science-fiction author Jules Verne, and centers on the story of James Burbank, an antislavery northerner living near Jacksonville, Florida, and Texar, a pro-slavery southerner who holds a vendetta against Burbank.
'The Children of Captain Grant') is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68. The original edition, published by Hetzel , contains illustrations by Édouard Riou . In 1876, it was republished by George Routledge & Sons as a three volume set titled A Voyage Round The World .
It is an adventure novel, involving how Joam Garral, a ranch owner living near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel downstream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft ) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém , at the river's ...