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Jules Verne: The writer who inspired space exploration
His stories spurred many scientists and inventors on to make his visions a reality.When French author Jules Verne died in 1905, powered air flight, which he put at the center of his 1886 book ...
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Excerpts from "Around the World in 72 Days"
On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly set off on her race around the world in an attempt to beat the "record" set in Jules Verne's fictional book, "Around the World in 80 Days." People from around the ...
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Why Jules Verne is the ultimate steampunk hero
Nowhere is that age evoked with more vigour than in the adventure novels of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne. Here’s what makes Verne the godfather of steampunk. Professors, captains and ...
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Jules Verne and French Literary Criticism
La science-fiction (Paris 1971), all French students of SF have granted a prominent position to those works of Jules Verne published under the collective title Les voyages extraordinaires. Most of ...