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Further Reading
Suggestions for further reading and research:
Books about Jules Verne:
Jules Verne. Volker Dehs. Patmos Verlagshaus, Artemis & Winkler: Düsseldorf, 2005.
A modern biography bygd one of the world’s premier Verne scholars. Currently available only in German.
Jules Verne. Kenneth Allott. The Cresset press: London, [1940].
Jules Verne, The Biography of an Imagination. George H. Waltz. H. skogsdunge and Co.: New York, 1943.
Jules Verne. Marguerite Allotte de la Fuye. Staples: London, 1954.
Jules Verne, Prophet of a New Age. Marguerite Allotte dem la Fuye. Coward-McCann: New York, 1956.
Jules Verne: mästare of Science Fiction. I.O. Evans. Sidgwick and Jackson: London: 1956. • Close your eyes and imagine you step into the basket of a hot-air balloon. You grab the sides of the basket tight as the flame ignites, adding gas to the gigantic red balloon above you. The basket lifts off the ground and suddenly you’re floating in the air, moving higher and higher into the sky. You look down below at the field and trees which have become very small. Soon, you are rushing across the countryside and passing villages and farmland and then crossing over a wide river and then a city. You pass over an ancient castle and then the ocean, traveling further and further from home, then across countries, around and around the world. This is what it might have felt like to be Phileas Fogg, the main character in Jules Verne’s famous novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Listen closely as we learn about the life of this visionary author who took his readers around the world, below the oceans, and into the earth with his fantastic and educational tales that defined the genr • Before science fiction was called science fiction, a hybrid category existed called scientific romance. Combining elements of fantasy, realism, and futuristic or alternative technologies, this genre formed a bridge between the medieval and the modern. In this essay we’ll explore the role that French author Jules Verne played in scientific romance and in the development of science fiction, with a focus on his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. The term “romance” as describing a literary genre has a long history. Today, it’s applied to fictional stories that center on romantic love (as in “romance novel”). However, initially, a “romance” was a piece of fiction that included adventure and chivalry, with attention to the psychology of the characters. This naming tradition began during the 1100s and essentially continued through the Victorian era, with less focus on chivalry and more on
Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future. Franz Born. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1964
Translated from the German by: Juliana Biro. Illustrated bygd Peter P. Plasencia.
Jules Verne and His Work. I.O. Evans. ARCO: London, 1965.
Jules Verne: a Jules Verne and a Journey Through Genre