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' Extraordinary Voyages ' or ' Amazing Journeys ') is a collection or sequence of novels and short stories by the French writer Jules Verne. Fifty-four of these novels were originally published between 1863 and 1905, during the author's lifetime, and eight additional novels were published posthumously.
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.
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (French: Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras) is an 1864 adventure novel by Jules Verne in two parts: The English at the North Pole (French: Les Anglais au pôle nord) and The Desert of Ice (French: Le Désert de glace). The novel was published for the first time in 1864.
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger (French: Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon) is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary).
It was first published in French in 1872. [1] English translations were published in New York in 1873 and London in 1876. [3] [4] In 1874 it was also published as the first half of a two-part volume entitled, Stories of Adventure along with Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a story line full of adventure and plot twists that keep the reader's ...
Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded edition.