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Cover of L'Algerie magazine, June 15, 1884. The text reads "M. Jules Verne: going to the best sources for authentic information on the underwater world." Arthur Rimbaud was inspired to write his well-known poem "Le Bateau ivre" after reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, which he extensively alludes to within the poem; [18] [19] The Adventures of Captain Hatteras was likely an ...
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 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 Though often scientifically outdated, his Voyages still retain their sense of wonder that appealed to readers of his time, and still provoke an interest in the sciences ...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 Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas mentions the Kraken and features a group of giant squids that attack the submarine Nautilus. [20] In Anatole France's 1908 novel L'île des Pingouins (chapter V), [21] Kraken is the name of a character that plays a monster, depicted as, among others, a dragon.
Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869/71) includes a visit to sunken Atlantis aboard Captain Nemo's submarine Nautilus – with protagonists walking for miles over the sea bottom until reaching the impressive sunken ruins, an obvious impossibility (Verne was not aware of water pressure in the ocean deeps). [1]
In the 1990 sci-fi comedy film, Back to the Future Part III, Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) states that Jules Verne is his favourite author and adores Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. At the end of the film, Dr. Brown introduces his two sons, named Jules and Verne respectively.
Dr. Ox reappears as the main villain of the play Journey Through the Impossible, written by Verne in 1882. The original story was adapted by Jacques Offenbach as Le docteur Ox , an opéra-bouffe in three acts and six tableaux, premiered on 26 January 1877 with a libretto by Arnold Mortier , Philippe Gille and Verne himself.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (French: Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne.It is often considered a classic within both its genres and world literature.