Jules Verne

Jules Verne. Photo by Félix Nadar.
Born:	February 8, 1828(1828-02-08) Nantes, France
Died:	March 24, 1905 (aged 77) Amiens, France
Occupation:	Novelist
Nationality:	French
Genres:	Science Fiction

Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828–March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".^[1] is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1828 (MDCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Authorship redirects here. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For other uses, see Journey to the Center of the Earth (disambiguation). ... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), published in 1870 under the title Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. ... Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. ... Layers of Atmosphere - not to scale (NOAA)[1] Outer space, sometimes simply called space, refers to the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ... “Flying Machine” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Submarine (disambiguation). ... USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... The Index Translationum is an index of translated authors kept by UNESCO. Since the advent of the printing press, books had been translated at the initiative of individual publishers and booksellers, with no central record of such translations. ... Hugo Gernsback (August 16, 1884 - August 19, 1967) was an inventor and magazine publisher who also wrote science fiction and whose publication included the first science fiction magazine. ... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...

==Biography==

Early years

Jules G. Verne was born to Pierre Verne, an attorney, and his wife, Sophie, in Nantes, the former capital of Brittany, France. The eldest of five children, Jules spent his early years at home with his parents in the bustling harbor city of Nantes. The family spent summers in a country house just outside the city, on the banks of the Loire River. Here Jules and his brother Paul would often rent a boat for a franc a day. The sight of the many ships navigating the river sparked Jules's imagination, as he describes in the autobiographical short story Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse. At the age of nine, Jules and Paul, of whom he was very fond, were sent to boarding school at the Saint Donatien College (Petit séminaire de Saint-Donatien). As a child, he developed a great interest in travel and exploration, a passion he showed as a writer of adventure stories and science fiction. His interest in writing often cost him progress in other subjects. An attorney is someone who represents someone else in the transaction of business: For attorney-at-law, see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary. ... Traditional city flag City coat of arms Motto: Favet Neptunus eunti (Latin: Shall Neptune favour the traveller) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country Region Pays de la Loire Department Loire-Atlantique (44) Mayor Jean-Marc Ayrault  (PS) (since 1989) City Statistics Land area¹ 65. ... Historical province of Brittany, showing the main areas with their name in Breton language The traditional flag of Brittany (the Gwenn-ha-du), formerly a Breton nationalist symbol but today used as a general civic flag in the region. ... The Loire River (pronounced in French), the longest river in France with a length of just over 1000 km, drains an area of 117,000 km², more than a fifth of France. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

At the boarding school, Verne studied Latin, which he used in his short story Le Mariage de Monsieur Anselme des Tilleuls in the mid 1850s. One of his teachers may have been the French inventor Brutus de Villeroi, professor of drawing and mathematics at the college in 1842, and who later became famous for creating the US Navy's first submarine, the USS Alligator. De Villeroi may have inspired Verne's conceptual design for the Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, although no direct exchanges between the two men have been recorded. Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... For other uses, see Inventor (disambiguation). ... Brutus de Villeroi (1794-1874) was a French engineer of the 19th century, born in the city of Nantes, who developed some of the first operational submarines, and the first submarine of the United States Navy, the USS Alligator in 1862. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... For scale drawings or plans, see Plans (drawings). ... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... College (Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... For other uses, see Submarine (disambiguation). ... The fourth USS Alligator is the first known US Navy submarine, though not of the United States. ... The Nautilus, as pictured in The Mysterious Island The Nautilus was the fictional submarine featured in Jules Vernes novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874). ... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), published in 1870 under the title Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. ... Look up exchange in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Verne's second French biographer, Marguerite Allotte de la Fuye, formulated the rumor that Verne was so fascinated with adventure at an early age that he stowed away on a ship bound for the West Indies, but that Jules's voyage was cut short when he found his father waiting for him at the next port. Look up rumour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Literary debut

After completing his studies at the lycée, Verne went to Paris to study for the bar. About 1848, in conjunction with Michel Carré, he began writing librettos for operettas. For some years his attentions were divided between the theatre and work, but some travellers' stories which he wrote for the Musée des Familles revealed to him his true talent: the telling of delightfully extravagant voyages and adventures to which cleverly prepared scientific and geographical details lent an air of verisimilitude. In France, secondary education is divided into two schools: the collège (IPA: ) (somewhat comparable to U.S. junior high school) for the first four years directly following primary school; the lycée (IPA: ) (comparable to a U.S. high school) for the next three years. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Michel Carré (1822-1872) was a prolific French librettist. ... Operetta (literally, little opera) is a performance art-form similar to opera, though it generally deals with less serious topics. ...

When Verne's father discovered that his son was writing rather than studying law, he promptly withdrew his financial support. Verne was forced to support himself as a stockbroker, which he hated despite being somewhat successful at it. During this period, he met Alexandre Dumas, père and Victor Hugo, who offered him writing advice. A stock broker or stockbroker or stock brokerage is someone or a firm who performs transactions in financial instruments on a stock market as an agent of his/her/its clients who are unable or unwilling to trade for themselves. ... Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. ... Victor-Marie Hugo (pronounced in French) (26 February 1802 — 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. ... “Write” redirects here. ...

Verne also met Honorine de Viane Morel, a widow with two daughters. They were married on January 10, 1857. With her encouragement, he continued to write and actively looked for a publisher. On August 3, 1861, their son, Michel Jules Verne, was born. A classic enfant terrible, Michel was sent to Mettray Penal Colony in 1876 and later would marry an actress in spite of Verne's objections, had two children by his 16 year old mistress, and buried himself in debts. The relationship between father and son did improve as Michel grew older. is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Michel Jean Pierre Verne (August 3, 1861 – March 5, 1925) was a writer and the son of Jules Verne. ... An enfant terrible, from the French meaning terrible child, is one whose startlingly unconventional behavior, work, or thought embarrasses or disturbs others. ... Mettray Penal Colony, situated in the small village of Mettray, in the French département of Indre-et-Loire, just north of the city of Tour, was a private reformatory, without walls, opened in 1839 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents aged between 6 and 21. ...

A typical Hetzel front cover for a Jules Verne book. The edition is Les Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras au Pôle Nord, type "Aux deux éléphants".

Verne's situation improved when he met Pierre-Jules Hetzel, one of the most important French publishers of the 19th century, who also published Victor Hugo, Georges Sand, and Erckmann-Chatrian, among others. They formed an excellent writer-publisher team until Hetzel's death. Hetzel helped improve Verne's writings, which until then had been repeatedly rejected by other publishers. Hetzel read a draft of Verne's story about the balloon exploration of Africa, which had been rejected by other publishers for being "too scientific". With Hetzel's help, Verne rewrote the story, which was published in 1863 in book form as Cinq semaines en balloon (Five Weeks in a Balloon). Acting on Hetzel's advice, Verne added comical accents to his novels, changed sad endings into happy ones, and toned down various political messages. Download high resolution version (545x827, 124 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (545x827, 124 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Pierre-Jules Hetzel. ... Pierre-Jules Hetzel. ... Victor-Marie Hugo (pronounced in French) (26 February 1802 — 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. ... George Sand (portrait by Nadar) Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin - later Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876) was a French novelist and early feminist (prior to the invention of the word), writing under the pen name of George Sand. ... Emile Erckmann (was the joint pseudonym of Erckmann-Chatrian) (1822 - 1899) was a French author and writer. ... For other uses, see Balloon (disambiguation). ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an 1863 novel by Jules Verne. ...

From that point to years after Verne's death, Hetzel published two or more volumes a year. The most successful of these include: Voyage au centre de la terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864); De la terre à la lune (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865); Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 1869); and Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days), which first appeared in Le Temps in 1872. The series is collectively known as "Les voyages extraordinaires" ("extraordinary voyages"). Verne could now live on his writings. But most of his wealth came from the stage adaptations of Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1874) and Michel Strogoff (1876), which he wrote with Adolphe d'Ennery. In 1867 Verne bought a small ship, the Saint-Michel, which he successively replaced with the Saint-Michel II and the Saint-Michel III as his financial situation improved. On board the Saint-Michel III, he sailed around Europe. In 1870, he was appointed as "Chevalier" (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur. After his first novel, most of his stories were first serialised in the Magazine d'Éducation et de Récréation, a Hetzel biweekly publication, before being published in the form of books. His brother Paul contributed to 40th French climbing of the Mont-Blanc and a collection of short stories - Doctor Ox - in 1874. Verne became wealthy and famous. According to the Unesco Index Translationum, Jules Verne regularly places among the top five most translated authors in the world. For other uses, see Journey to the Center of the Earth (disambiguation). ... The projectile, as pictured in an engraving from the 1872 Illustrated Edition. ... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), published in 1870 under the title Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. ... Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. ... Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (French: Michel Strogoff) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. ... Adolphe Philippe dEnnery or Dennery (17 June 1811 - 1899) was a French dramatist and novelist. ... Chiang Kai-sheks Légion dhonneur. ... Look up publication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Publishing is the activity of putting information in the public arena. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... The Index Translationum is an index of translated authors kept by UNESCO. Since the advent of the printing press, books had been translated at the initiative of individual publishers and booksellers, with no central record of such translations. ...

Last years

On March 9, 1886, as Verne was coming home, his twenty-five-year-old nephew, Gaston, shot him with a gun. One bullet missed, but the second entered Verne's left leg, giving him a limp that would not be cured. Gaston spent the rest of his life in an asylum. is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

After the deaths of Hetzel and his beloved mother in 1887, Jules began writing darker works. This may partly be due to changes in his personality, but an important factor is the fact that Hetzel's son, who took over his father's business, was not as rigorous in his corrections as Hetzel Sr. had been. In 1888, Jules Verne entered politics and was elected town councillor of Amiens, where he championed several improvements and served for fifteen years. In 1905, while ill with diabetes, Verne died at his home, 44 Boulevard Longueville (now Boulevard Jules-Verne). Michel oversaw publication of his last novels Invasion of the Sea and The Lighthouse at the End of the World. The "Voyages extraordinaires" series continued for several years afterwards in the same rhythm of two volumes a year. It has later been discovered that Michel Verne had made extensive changes in these stories, and the original versions were published at the end of the 20th century. The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. ... Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. ... This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ... Le Phare du bout du monde (English translation The Light at the Edge of the World) is a novel by French science fiction author Jules Verne. ...

In 1863, Jules Verne wrote a novel called Paris in the 20th Century about a young man who lives in a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, and a worldwide communications network, yet cannot find happiness and comes to a tragic end. Hetzel thought the novel's pessimism would damage Verne's then booming career, and suggested he wait 20 years to publish it. Verne put the manuscript in a safe, where it was discovered by his great-grandson in 1989. It was published in 1994. Paris in the 20th Century (Paris au XXème siècle) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne. ... For other uses, see Skyscraper (disambiguation). ... TGV Réseau class, Marseille St-Charles station This page is about high speed rail in general. ... “Car” and “Cars” redirect here. ... For other uses, see Calculator (disambiguation). ...

Reputation in English-speaking countries

While Verne is considered in many countries such as France as an author of quality books for young people, with a good command of his subjects, including technology and politics, his reputation in English-speaking countries suffered for a long time from poor translation. Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Characteristic of much of late 19th century writing, Verne's books often took a chauvinistic point of view. The British Empire in particular was frequently portrayed in a bad light, and so the first English translator, Reverend Lewis Page Mercier working under a pseudonym, removed many such passages, such as those describing the political actions of Captain Nemo in his incarnation as an Indian nobleman. Such negative depictions were not, however, invariable in Verne's works; for example, Facing the Flag features Lieutenant Devon, a heroic, self-sacrificing Royal Navy officer worthy of any written by British authors. Captain Nemo, an Indian, was balanced by Ned Land, a Canadian. Some of Verne's most famous heroes were British (e.g. Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days). Chauvinism (IPA:) is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... Lewis Page Mercier (1820-1875) Reverend Lewis Page Mercier is known today as the translator, along with Eleanor Elizabeth King, of two of the best known novels of Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Around It. ... A pseudonym (Greek: , pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons legal name. ... Captain Nemo is a fictional character featured in Jules Vernes novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874). ... Facing the Flag is an 1896 novel by Jules Verne. ... This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ... Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. ...

Mercier and subsequent British translators also had trouble with the metric system that Verne used, sometimes dropping significant figures, at other times keeping the nominal value and only changing the unit to an Imperial measure. Thus Verne's calculations, which in general were remarkably exact, were converted into mathematical gibberish. Also, artistic passages and whole chapters were cut because of the need to fit the work in a constrained space for publication. (The London author, Cranstoun Metcalfe (1866–1938), translated two of Verne's later works into English during the first years of the 20th century.) Look up si, Si, SI in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about post-1824 Imperial units, please see also English unit, U.S. customary unit or Avoirdupois. ...

For those reasons, Verne's work initially acquired a reputation in English-speaking countries for not being fit for adult readers. This in turn prevented him from being taken seriously enough to merit new translations, leading to those of Mercier and others being reprinted decade after decade. Only from 1965 on were some of his novels re-translated more accurately, but even today Verne's work has still not been fully rehabilitated in the English-speaking world.

Verne's works also reflect the bitterness France felt in the wake of defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871, and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine. The Begum's Millions (Les Cinq cents millions de la Begum) of 1879 gives a highly stereotypical depiction of Germans as monstrous cruel militarists. By contrast, almost all the protagonists in his pre-1871 works, such as the sympathetic first-person narrator in Journey to the Centre of the Earth, are German. Combatants Second French Empire North German Confederation allied with south German states (later German Empire) Commanders Napoleon III Otto Von Bismarck, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Strength 400,000 at the beginning of the war 1,200,000 Casualties 150,000 dead or wounded 284,000 captured 350,000 civilian... (New region flag) (Region logo) Location Administration Capital Regional President Departments Bas-Rhin Haut-Rhin Arrondissements 13 Cantons 75 Communes 903 Statistics Land area1 8,280 km² (??? mi) km² Population (Ranked 14th)  - January 1, 2006 est. ... Moselle is a département in the northeast of France named after the Moselle River. ... The Begums Millions (in the original French Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum) is a 1879 novel by Jules Verne, with some elements which could be described as utopian and others which seem clearly dystopian. ...

Hetzel's influence

Hetzel substantially influenced the writings of Verne, who was so happy to finally find a willing publisher that he agreed on almost all changes that Hetzel suggested. Hetzel rejected at least one novel (Paris in the 20th Century), and asked Verne to significantly change his other drafts. One of the most important changes Hetzel enforced on Verne was the adoption of optimism in his novels. Verne was in fact not an enthusiast of technological and human progress, as can be seen in his works created before he met Hetzel and after his death. Hetzel's demand of the optimistic text proved correct. For example, The Mysterious Island originally ended with the survivors returning to mainland forever nostalgic about the island. Hetzel decided that the heroes should live happily, so in the revised draft, they use their fortunes to build a replica of the island. Many translations are like this. Also, in order not to offend France's then-ally, Russia, the origin and past of the famous Captain Nemo were changed from those of a Polish refugee avenging the partitions of Poland and the death of his family in the January Uprising repressions to those of an Indian prince fighting the British Empire after the Sikh War. Paris in the 20th Century (Paris au XXème siècle) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne. ... Captain Nemo is a fictional character featured in Jules Vernes novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874). ... The Partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polish: Rozbiór Polski or Rozbiory Polski; Lithuanian: Lietuvos-Lenkijos padalijimai, Belarusian: Падзелы Рэчы Паспалітай) took place in the 18th century and ended the existence of the sovereign Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. ... Polonia (Poland), 1863, by Jan Matejko, 1864, oil on canvas, 156 × 232 cm, National Museum, Kraków. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... Sikh Wars can refer to: First Anglo-Sikh War Second Anglo-Sikh War This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Predictions

Jules Verne's novels have been noted for being startlingly accurate descriptions of modern times. "Paris in the 20th Century" is an often cited example of this as it describes air conditioning, automobiles, the internet, television, and other modern conveniences very similar to their real world counterparts. Another good example is "From the Earth to the Moon", which is uncannily similar to the real Apollo Program, as three astronauts are launched from the Florida peninsula and recovered through a splash landing. This article is about the series of human spaceflight missions. ...

Bibliography

Jules Verne and some of the creatures from his novels

Verne wrote numerous works, most famous of which are the 54 novels part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. He also wrote short stories, essays, plays, and poems. Download high resolution version (1791x2802, 2479 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1791x2802, 2479 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Les Voyages Extraordinaires (The Extraordinary Voyages in English) was a publishing title affixed to the novels, fictional and non-fictional, of French author and Science Fiction pioneer Jules Verne. ...

Some of his better known works include:

• Five Weeks in a Balloon (Cinq Semaines en ballon, 1863)
• Paris in the 20th Century (Paris au XXe Siècle, 1863, not published until 1994)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre, 1864)
• From the Earth to the Moon (De la terre à la lune, 1865)
• Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras, 1866; also published in two volumes as A Journey to the North Pole or At the North Pole or The English at the North Pole and The Field of Ice or The Desert of Ice)
• In Search of the Castaways or Captain Grant's Children (Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, 1867-1868)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 1869)
• Around The Moon (Autour de la lune, a sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, 1870)
• A Floating City (Une ville flottante, 1871)
• Dr. Ox's Experiment (Une Fantaisie du Docteur Ox, 1872)
• The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais, 1872 )
• The Fur Country (Le Pays des fourrures, 1873)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingts jours, 1873)
• The Survivors of the Chancellor (Le Chancellor, 1875)
• The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse, sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, 1875)
• Blockade runners (Les Forceurs de blocus, 1876)
• Michael Strogoff (Michel Strogoff, 1876)
• Off On A Comet (Hector Servadac, 1877; also published in two volumes as To the Sun? and Off on a Comet!)
• The Child of the Cavern, also known as Black Diamonds or The Black Indies (Les Indes noires, 1877)
• Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (Un Capitaine de quinze ans, 1878)
• The Begum's Millions (Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum, 1879)
• The Steam House (La Maison à vapeur, 1879)
• Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine), 1879
• Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (La Jangada, 1881)
• The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert, 1882)
• The Headstrong Turk (1883)
• Frritt-Flacc (1884)
• The Vanished Diamond (L’Étoile du sud, 1884)
• The Archipelago on Fire (L’Archipel en feu, 1884)
• Mathias Sandorf (1885)
• Robur the Conqueror or The Clipper of the Clouds (Robur-le-Conquérant, 1886)
• Ticket No. "9672" (Un Billet de loterie, 1886 )
• North Against South (Nord contre Sud, 1887)
• The Flight to France (Le Chemin de France, 1887)
• Family Without a Name (Famille-sans-nom, 1888)
• Two Years' Vacation (Deux Ans de vacances, 1888)
• The Purchase of the North Pole or Topsy Turvy (Sans dessus dessous, the second sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, 1889)
• Mistress Branican, (1891)
• Carpathian Castle (Le Château des Carpathes, 1892)
• Propeller Island (L’Île à hélice, 1895)
• Facing the Flag (Face au drapeau, 1896)
• Clovis Dardentor (1896)
• The Sphinx of the Ice Fields or An Antarctic Mystery (Le Sphinx des glaces, a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 1897)
• The Mighty Orinoco (Le Superbe Orénoque, 1898)
• Second Fatherland (Seconde Patrie, sequel to Johann Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson, 1900; also published in two volumes as Their Island Home and Castaways of the Flag)
• The Village in the Treetops (Le Village aérien, 1901)
• The Master of the World (Maître du monde, sequel to Robur the Conqueror, 1904)
• Invasion of the Sea (L’Invasion de la mer, 1904)
• A Drama in Livonia (Un Drame en Livonie, 1904)
• The Lighthouse at the End of the World (Le Phare du bout du monde, 1905)
• The Chase of the Golden Meteor (La Chasse au météore, 1908)
• The Danube Pilot (Le Pilote du Danube, 1908)
• The Survivors of the 'Jonathan' (Le Naufrages du Jonathan, 1909)
• The Eternal Adam (L’Eternel Adam, 1910)

Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an 1863 novel by Jules Verne. ... Paris in the 20th Century (Paris au XXème siècle) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne. ... For other uses, see Journey to the Center of the Earth (disambiguation). ... The projectile, as pictured in an engraving from the 1872 Illustrated Edition. ... Map of the expedition At the volcano (illustrations by Édouard Riou and Henri de Montaut) Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras (in French Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne. ... In Search of the Castaways (original title Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, The Children of Captain Grant) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867-1868. ... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), published in 1870 under the title Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. ... Around the Moon, Jules Vernes sequel to A Trip to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspence after the previous novel. ... A Floating City is a science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905). ... is a short novel by the French writer and pioneer of Science-Fiction, Jules Verne, published in 1872. ... The Fur Country (original French Le Pays des fourrures) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1872. ... Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. ... The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger (Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon) is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing vessel, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form... Map of Lincoln Island Cyrus Smith blessing Captain Nemo on his death bed in The Mysterious Island The Mysterious Island (original title: LÎle mystérieuse) is a French novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. ... A blockade runner is a ship designed to provide vital supplies to countries or areas blockaded by enemy forces during wartime. ... Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (French: Michel Strogoff) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. ... Off on a comet is an 1887 science fiction novel of Jules Verne. ... The Child of the Cavern (original title Les Indes noires, Black Indies) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in April 1877. ... Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (Un capitaine de quinze ans) is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. ... The Begums Millions (in the original French Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum) is a 1879 novel by Jules Verne, with some elements which could be described as utopian and others which seem clearly dystopian. ... Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (Les Tribulations dun Chinois en Chine) is a novel by the French author Jules Verne, published in 1879. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne published in 1882 and inspired from the phenomenon of the same name. ... Frritt-Flacc is a short horror novel by Jules Verne. ... The Vanished Diamond (le diamant disparu) is a book by Jules Verne. ... Mathias Sandorf is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1885. ... Robur-the-Conqueror (Robur-le-Conquérant in original French) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne, published in 1886. ... Texars Revenge, or, North Against South is the full title of the English translation of the novel written by the legendary 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... Family Without a Name (in the original French: Famille-sans-nom) is a novel written by French author Jules Verne from 1887 to 1888 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... Two Years Vacation (Deux ans de vacances) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1888. ... The Carpathian Castle is a book written by Jules Verne in 1893. ... Propeller Island (also called The Floating Island or The Pearl of the Pacific) is a science fiction novel by French author Jules Verne (1828–1905). ... Facing the Flag is an 1896 novel by Jules Verne. ... Partly a travel narrative, Clovis Dardentor is a 1896 fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne. ... The Sphinx of the Ice Fields, also known also as An Antarctic Mystery, is an 1897 novel by Jules Verne and is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poes The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, literary critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poes longest novel, published in 1838. ... The Mighty Orinoco is a novel by Jules Verne which deals with a voyage made nearly to the source of the Orinoco River, a river in Venezuala. ... Johann David Wyss (Bern, March 4, 1743 - 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (1812), based on the Robinson Crusoe adventure by Daniel Defoe. ... The Swiss Family Robinson (Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family who is shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia. ... For the Marvel Comics character, see Master (comics) Master of the World was published in 1904, one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne. ... A Drama in Livonia is a work written by Jules Verne in 1904. ... It has been suggested that Vasquez, Moriz and Felipe be merged into this article or section. ... The Survivors of the Jonathan, also known as Magellania[1], is a novel that was written (as Magellania) by Jules Verne in 1897. ...

See also

• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Zane Grey
• Paschal Grousset
• Karl May
• Emilio Salgari
• Osip Senkovsky
• Oshikawa Shunro
• B. Traven
• H. G. Wells
• Steampunk, a style that took inspiration from Verne.
• Before Armageddon: An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914 (1976)

Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. ... Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. ... Jean François Paschal Grousset (1844 - 1909) was a French politician and journalist. ... Karl May. ... Emilio Salgari. ... Jozef-Julian Sekowski, known in Russia as Ossip Ivanovich Senkovsky (1800-1858), was a prolific Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist, and entertainer. ... B. Traven (d. ... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ... For the comic book, see Steampunk (comics). ... Before Armageddon: An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914 is a collection of stories, including invasion literature, edited by Michael Moorcock. ...

Notes

1. ^ Adam Charles Roberts (2000), "The History of Science Fiction": Page 48 in Science Fiction, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-19204-8. Others who are popularly called the "Father of Science Fiction" include Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells.

Hugo Gernsback (August 16, 1884 - August 19, 1967) was an inventor and magazine publisher who also wrote science fiction and whose publication included the first science fiction magazine. ... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...

Further reading

• William Butcher, Arthur C. Clarke (Introduction) (2006). Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography. ISBN 1-56025-854-3
• Herbert R. Lottman (1997). Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography. ISBN 0-312-14636-1
• Philippe Melot et Jean-Marie Embs(2005).Le Guide Jules Verne.Les Editions de l'Amateur,Paris.ISBN 2-85917-417-6

References Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). ... Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. ...

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• Les Voyages Extraordinaires -list of Verne works Compiled by Dennis Kytasaari.
• En relisant Jules Verne. Un autre regard sur les Voyages Extraordinaires. Essay, de Lionel Dupuy (2005). French text.
• Jules Verne, l'homme et la terre. La mystérieuse géographie des Voyages Extraordinaires : Essay, de Lionel Dupuy (2006). French text.
• Jules Verne at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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• Works by Jules Verne at Project Gutenberg
• Jules Verne's works: text, concordances and frequency list
• A Jules Verne Centennial 1905-2005: A selection of early Jules Verne books and illustrations at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries edited by Norman M. Wolcott.
• Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection, including the Jules Verne Virtual Library, online sources of 51 of Jules Verne's novels translated into eight languages.
• The Jules Verne Collecting Resource Page, complete online sources, posters, cards, autographs, first edition covers, etc..

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• Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography
• A Chronology of Jules Verne
• Biography of Jules Verne
• Jules Verne: A Reappraisal, by William Butcher

Reviews

• "Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction?", John Derbyshire, The New Atlantis, Number 12, Spring 2006, pp. 81-90. A review of four new Jules Verne translations from the "Early Classics of Science Fiction" series by Wesleyan University Press.
• Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography, by Herbert R. Lottman - a review.

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• Vision Cruceros Vision Cruise --> Thematic Cruise about Jules Verne.
• A Jules Verne Centennial: 1905-2005 (2005) Norman Wolcott From Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• The maps from the Voyages Extraordinaires, scans of all the maps that were included in the original editions of Jules Verne’s novels.
• Nantes Tourist Office official website (English)