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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 ...
The original manuscript of the novel, titled "L'Étoile du Sud : Aventures au pays des diamants" ("The Southern Star: Adventures in the Land of Diamonds") was written by the novelist and activist Paschal Grousset under the pseudonym Philippe Daryl. The publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel bought the manuscript and assigned it to Jules Verne for
Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Jules Verne characters" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the world, which was inspired by the 1873 book Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
In 2017, David Coward issued a new translation published by Penguin Classics (ISBN 9780141394930) with the title Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, including a new introduction, notes, and a note on the text, using the 1871 Christian Chelebourg edition of the text as the basis for his translation. Coward also included 42 illustrations ...
José Luandino Vieira (born 1935, Angola, f), pseudonym of José Vieira Mateus da Graça Francis Vielé-Griffin (1864–1937, US/France, p) Peter Viereck (1916–2006, US, p/nf)
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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.