Jules Verne, Author, Sydney Kravitz, Translator, Arthur B. Evans, Editor Wesleyan University Press $40 (728p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6475-7 The second title in Wesleyan's new Early Classics of Science ...

Since 1932, UNESCO has maintained a database called the Index Translationum. It is an international bibliography of translations—that is, a list of all the books in the world that have been published ...

A visionary who wrote about submarines when none existed in his 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne is often referred to as the father of science fiction. A visionary who ...

For an author who fuelled the world’s wanderlust with his books, Jules Verne, who penned Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873 (it is the most translated French novel), didn’t do much travelling.

1. According to Unesco, Jules Verne is the second most translated author, behind Agatha Christie but ahead of Shakespeare. 2. There is a tale, probably exaggerated, that aged 11, he tried to sail to ...

Jules Verne is celebrated today with an animated Google doodle. Here are 10 things you need to know about the French author... 1. Jules Verne was born on 8 February 1828 in Nantes, France, the eldest ...

The author of the Monster Odyssey series explains how the genius of Victorian sci-fi master Jules Verne – who wrote Around the World in 80 Days and Journey to the Centre of the Earth – took his ...

The search engine has paid tribute to the writer's undersea novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea with an interactive doodle featuring an ocean scene viewed through the portholes of a submarine.

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Jules Verne is celebrated today with an animated Google doodle. Here are 10 things you need to know about the French author... 1. Jules Verne was born on 8 February 1828 in Nantes, France, the eldest ...