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JULES VERNE
 Five weeks in a
Balloon - A rejected essay and finally, written several times! This
became success for Jules
Verne as his first
Novel written with Imagination.
And born on February 8, he goes down in
Literature
History with the famous 'Around the World in Eighty Days' and 'Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." Probably, a supplement read in all
Classrooms.
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A French
Novelist, born in Nantes, Jules Verne studied law in Paris but decided to
become a writer. He wrote some of the first science-fiction stories. His
books have remained popular in the space age, although they were written
before the invention of aerospace. He is the soul behind the forecast of
the invention of aeroplanes, submarines, television, guided missiles and
space satellites. He had a vision to predict its uses accurately
too.
Jules
Verne's famous book "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
(published in 1870) says of Caption Nemo, a mad sea captain who cruises
beneath the oceans in a submarine. In Around the World in Eighty
Days,(1873) Phileas Fogg travels around the earth in the then unheard-of
time of 80 days, just to win a bet. His other thrillers include a Journey
to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), and
Around the Moon (1870).
Verne
cleverly used realistic detail and explanations that one can believe in
the incredible tales of adventure. He knew a good deal of geography and
made use of it to bring his adventures alive. He wrote several historical
stories and one was American Civil War, North Against South in 1887.
Jules
Verne's first Novel 'Five weeks in a Balloon (1863) brought him immediate
success. It was based on an essay he wrote describing the exploration of
Africa in a balloon. The essay was rejected several times before the
publisher suggested that Verne rewrite it as a novel of imagination. This
popularity of the book made Jules Verne to continue writing on science
fiction themes. However, his first works as a writer were plays and words
for opera.
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Jules Verne is the "fathers of science fiction" - A
master storyteller of air, sea and land -
'Five weeks in a
Balloon' 'Around
the World in 80 Days" and "Voyage to the Center of the Earth'
are some of his masterpieces.
As Google Doodle
shines on his Birthday, 8th February 2011 - its a tribute to
183rd Birthday of Jules Verne.
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JULES
VERNE Around the World in
Eighty Days
"An eccentric
wealthy Londoner whose friends challenged him 20000 pounds to go
around the world in eighty days. A great tour."
Phileas
Fogg had won his wager, and had made his journey around the world in
eighty days. To do this, he had employed every means of conveyance -
steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading vessels, sledges,
elephants. The eccentric gentleman had throughout displayed all his
marvellous qualities of coolness and exactitude. But what then? What
had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back
from this long and weary journey?
Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who,
strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the
world?
- end part of the Book "Around the World in Eighty Days
Some Popular
Books of Jules Verne:
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Paris in the 20th Century
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras
From the Earth to the Moon
In Search of the Castaways
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
A Floating City
Dr. Ox's Experiment
The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three
Russians in South Africa
The Survivors of the Chancellor
The Fur Country
Around the World in Eighty Days
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
The Vanished Diamond
The Green Ray
Ticket No. "9672"
Two Years' Vacation
Mistress Branican
Facing the Flag
The Mighty Orinoco
The Chase of the Golden Meteor
The Danube Pilot
The Survivors of the 'Jonathan
The Sphinx of the Ice Fields or An Antarctic
Mystery
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