The Imaginary Worlds of Jules Verne

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Biographical Overview

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic, and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music, and video games. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved. Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.
An early play by Verne
Voyages Extraordinaires was a sequence of 54 novels published between 1863 and 1905
Verne's yacht: The Saint-Michel III
Verne's Tomb

Web Resources

BIOGRAPHY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_VerneBIOGRAPHY: https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/jules-verneBIOGRAPHY: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jules_Verne BIOGRAPHY: https://www.thoughtco.com/jules-verne-biography-4151934 CULTURAL INFLUENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Jules_VerneFATHER OF SCIENCE FICTION: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/jules-verne-father-of-science-fiction15 FACTS ABOUT VERNE: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/546405/facts-about-jules-verneIMPACT OF VERNE: https://scholarship.depauw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1059&context=mlang_facpubsOVERVIEW VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES: https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_AG_690_0131--jules-verne-s-extraordinary-voyages.htmVERNE AS FUTURIST: https://www.vision.org/journey-center-jules-verne-339VERNE AS FUTURIST: https://interestingengineering.com/culture/prophet-or-futurist-7-technologies-jules-verne-predicted-leagues-ahead-of-his-timeVERNE AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS: https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/humanities/beliefs/jules-verne-dream-sustainable-scientific-progress/VERNE: OVERVIEW OF LESSER KNOWN WORKS: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/12/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror VERNE AND THE HISTORY OF SCI-FI (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-_-0O7c-PE&t=153sBIOGRAPHY (Biography Channel video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y0xtskhGK0VERNE AS PLAYWRIGHT: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4241325

Additional Video Web Resources

RECENT TIME CAPSULE DISCOVERY (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byUOH3SJA2UFUTURIST (Focus on Paris in the 20th Century): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DtU8SuRitYIMPACT OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ON VERNE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLpFhMzA6LsFUTURIST (with short Bio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxvVMcUou8sDETAILED OVERVIEW (begins at 4:15): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV07_6QsVK4&t=3044s
Jules Verne, stockbroker
Verne's son: Michel Verne
Honorine and Jules Verne

The Best of Verne

Alphabetical Bibliography (Novels)

English Language Titles
A• 1866 The Adventures of Captain Hatteras• 1872 The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa• 1897 An Antarctic Mystery• 1884 The Archipelago on Fire• 1870 Around the Moon• 1873 Around the World in Eighty DaysB• 1860/1989 Backwards to Britain• 1919 The Barsac Mission• 1879 The Begum's FortuneC• 1894 Captain Antifer• 1892 The Carpathian Castle• 1900 The Castaways of the Flag• 1890 César Cascabel• 1908 The Chase of the Golden Meteor• 1877 The Child of the Cavern• 1892 Claudius Bombarnac• 1896 Clovis DardentorD• 1908 The Danube Pilot• 1878 Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen• 1904 A Drama in LivoniaE• 1881 Eight Hundred Leagues on the AmazonF• 1896 Facing the Flag• 1889 Family Without a Name• 1863/1865 Five Weeks in a Balloon• 1887 The Flight to France• 1871 A Floating City• 1865 From the Earth to the Moon• 1873 The Fur CountryG• 1882 Godfrey Morgan• 1906 The Golden Volcano• 1882 The Green RayI• 1875 An Ideal City• 1867/1868 In Search of the Castaways (aka. Captain Grant’s Children)• 1905 Invasion of the SeaJ• 1864/1867 Journey to the Center of the EarthK• 1883 Kéraban the Inflexible• 1902 The Kip BrothersL• 1905 The Lighthouse at the End of the World• 1886 The Lottery TicketM• 1904 Master of the World (novel)• 1885 Mathias Sandorf• 1876 Michael Strogoff• 1898 The Mighty Orinoco• 1891 Mistress Branican• 1874/1875 The Mysterious IslandO• 1877 Off on a CometP• 1863/1994 Paris in the Twentieth Century• 1845/1992 A Priest in 1839• 1895 Propeller Island• 1889 The Purcvors of the Chancellor 1889 The Purchase of the North Pole R 1886 Robur the ConquererT• 1887 North Against South• 1903 Travel Scholarships• 1879 Tribulations of a Chinaman in China• 1869/1871 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas• 1888 Two Years' Vacation• 1907 The Thompson Travel Agency (written by Verne’s son Michel)V• 1884 The Vanished Diamond• 1901 The Village in the TreetopsW• 1899 The Will of an Eccentric

Other Writings

1. Other NovelsPublished in Verne's lifetime:• L'Épave du "Cynthia" (The Waif of the "Cynthia", 1885, with André Laurie)Posthumously published:• Un Pretre en 1835 (A Priest in 1835, first published 2016, unfinished)• Voyage en Angleterre et en Ecosse (Backwards to Britain, 1860, first published 1989)• Paris au XXe siècle (Paris in the Twentieth Century, 1863, first published 1994) 2. Short storiesPublished in Verne's lifetime:• "Un drame au Mexique" ("A Drama in Mexico," originally published as "Les premiers navires de la marine mexicaine," 1851)• "Un drame dans les airs" ("A Drama in the Air," originally published as "Un voyage en ballon," 1851)• "Martin Paz" ("Martin Paz," 1852)• "Maître Zacharius" ("Master Zacharius," 1854)• "Un hivernage dans les glaces" ("A Winter Amid the Ice," 1855)• "Le Comte de Chanteleine" ("The Count of Chanteleine", 1864)• "Les Forceurs de blocus" ("The Blockade Runners", 1871)• "Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox" ("Dr. Ox's Experiment," 1872)• "Une ville idéale" ("An Ideal Town," 1875)• "Les révoltés de la Bounty ("The Mutineers of the Bounty," 1879, with Gabriel Marcel)• "Dix heures en chasse" ("Ten Hours Hunting," 1881)• "Frritt-Flacc" ("Frritt-Flacc," 1884)• "Gil Braltar" ("Gil Braltar," 1887)• "La Journée d’un journaliste américain en 2890" (1891, based on the 1889 short story "In the Year 2889" by Michel Verne)• "Aventures de la famille Raton" ("Adventures of the Rat Family," 1891)• "Monsieur Ré-Dièze et Mademoiselle Mi-Bémol" ("Mr. Re Sharp and Miss Mi Flat," 1893)Posthumously published:• "Pierre-Jean" ("Pierre-Jean"; published by Michel Verne in 1910 in heavily altered form as "La destinée de Jean Morénas")• "Le Mariage de M. Anselme des Tilleuls" ("The Marriage of Mr. Anselme des Tilleuls")• "San Carlos" ("San Carlos")• "Le Humbug", ("The Humbug", 1910)• "Edom" ("Edom," with Michel Verne; published by Michel Verne in 1910 in heavily altered form as L'Éternel Adam) 3. Nonfiction books• Géographie illustrée de la France et de ses colonies (Illustrated Geography of France and its Colonies, 1866–68, with Théophile Lavallée)• Découverte de la Terre: Histoire générale des grands voyages et des grands voyageurs (Discovery of the Earth, 1870–80, with Gabriel Marcel)• Grands Navigateurs du XVIIIe siècle (Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century)• Les voyageurs du XIXe siècle 4. Essays• "Portraits d'artistes. XVIII" ("Portraits of Artists: XVIII," 1857)• "Salon de 1857" ("Salon of 1857," series of seven articles, 1857)• "A propos du Géant" ("About the Géant," 1863)• "Edgar Poe et ses œuvres" ("Edgar Allan Poe and his Works," 1864)• "Les méridiens et le calendrier" ("The Meridians and the Calendar," 1873)• "24 minutes en ballon" ("24 Minutes in a Balloon," 1873)• "Note pour l’affaire J. Verne contre Pont Jest" ("Note for the case J. Verne v. Pont Jest", 1876)• "Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse" ("Memories of Childhood and Youth," 1890) 5. Plays• Les Pailles rompues (The Broken Straws, 1850)• Monna Lisa (Mona Lisa, 1852)• Le Colin-Maillard (Blind Man's Buff, 1853, with Michel Carré and Aristide Hignard)• Un Fils adoptif (The Adoptive Son, 1853, with Charles Wallut)• Les Compagnons de la Marjolaine (Knights of the Daffodil, 1855, with Carré and Hignard)• Monsieur de Chimpanzé (Mr. Chimpanzee, 1858, with Carré and Hignard)• L’Auberge des Ardennes (The Inn in the Ardennes, 1860, with Carré and Hignard)• Onze jours de siège (Eleven Days' Siege, 1861, with Wallut and Victorien Sardou)• Un neveu d’Amérique (A Nephew from America, 1873, with Wallut and Édouard Cadol)• Le Tour du monde en 80 jours (Around the World in 80 Days, 1874, with Adolphe d'Ennery)• Les Enfants du capitaine Grant (The Children of Captain Grant, 1878, with d'Ennery)• Michel Strogoff (Michael Strogoff, 1880, with d'Ennery)• Voyage à travers l'impossible (Journey Through the Impossible, 1882)• Kéraban-le-têtu (Kéraban the Pigheaded, 1883)• Mathias Sandorf (Mathias Sandorf, 1887, with William Busnach)

A Baker's Dozen

Five Weeks in a Balloon
Journey to the Center of the Earth
From the Earth to the Moon Around the Moon
In Search of the Castaways
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Mysterious Island
Michael Strogoff
The Begum's Fortune
Robur the Conqueror
Master of the World
An Antarctic Adventure
Paris in the Twentieth Century
The Lighthouse at the End of the World
Jules Verne
FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-image-of-africa-from-the-sky-jules-vernes-five-weeks-in-a-balloon/FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/reviews/five-weeks-in-a-balloon-by-jules-verne-translated-by-frederick-paul-walter/JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_EarthJOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: https://kclibrary.org/blog/book-reviews/classic-review-journey-center-earthFROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_MoonAROUND THE MOON: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_MoonAROUND THE MOON: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3542/1IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_the_CastawaysTWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_SeasTWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA:https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/20000-leagues-under-the-sea/analysis/AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/around-the-world-in-80-days/analysis/AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_DaysTHE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_IslandMICHAEL STROGOFF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_StrogoffBEGUM’S FORTUNE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Begum%27s_FortuneBEGUN’S FORTUNE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201547.htmlROBUR THE CONQUEROR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robur_the_ConquerorMASTER OF THE WORLD: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/32838AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Antarctic_MysteryPARIS IN THE 20th CENTURY: https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/review_essays/taves71.htmLIGHTHOUSE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_at_the_End_of_the_World

Honorable Mention

The Purchase of the North Pole
Dick Sand, Captain at 15
Two Years' Vacation
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Verne's publisher: Pierre-Jules Hetzel (January 15, 1814 - March 17, 1886)
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