Verne, Jules, 1828-1905

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Dates:
Birth 1828-02-08
Death 1905-03-24
Gender:
Male
French
French

Biographical notes:

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. 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.[4] 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.

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Subjects:

  • 19th Century
  • Action & adventure dramas
  • Adventure stories
  • Authors, French
  • Drama
  • European fiction
  • Fantastic Adventures
  • Fiction and fiction writers
  • French drama 19th century
  • Novels
  • Poetry
  • Science fiction
  • Voyages, Imaginary
  • Drama
  • Novels
  • Poetry
  • Science fiction
  • Voyages, Imaginary

Occupations:

  • Authors
  • Novelists
  • Playwrights
  • Poets

Places:

  • Republic of France, 00, FR
  • Amiens, B6, FR
  • Nantes-en-Ratier, B9, FR

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