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Childhood in Nantes: The Art of the Sea and of the Machine Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828, to a middle-class French family in the western port city of Nantes. His mother, Sophie (née Allotte de la Fuye), was the daughter of a prominent Nantes family of ship owners. His father, Pierre Verne, was a lawyer and the son of a Provins ...
Around the Moon. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas ( French: Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne . The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel 's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation.
Jules Gabriel Verne ( IPA : /ʒyl vεrn/ ), född 8 februari 1828 [ 3] i Nantes i Pays de la Loire, död 24 mars 1905 i Amiens i Picardie, var en fransk författare av populärlitteratur och ungdomsböcker med en produktion av två handskrivna romaner om året. Han nådde stora internationella försäljningsframgångar och var genomgående ...
Jules Verne, (born Feb. 8, 1828, Nantes, France—died March 24, 1905, Amiens), French writer. He studied law then worked as a stockbroker while writing plays and stories. The first of his romantic adventures ( voyages extraordinaires ), Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), was highly successful. His subsequent voyages —with increasingly fantastic ...
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. His works are notable for their profound influence on science fiction [1] and on surrealism, [2] their innovative use of ...
Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828, on a small artificial island called Île Feydeau on the river Loire. He was sent to school at the age of six where he encountered Madame Sambin, a particularly influential instructor who, some scholars suggest, laid the initial spark of inspiration and interest in seafaring.
In 1863, he wrote "Paris in the 20th Century" about a young man who lives in a world of skyscrapers, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, and a worldwide communications network, yet cannot find happiness, and comes to a tragic end.
