Author Jules Verne Famous Books Around The World in Eighty Days, Journey To The Centre of The

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Author; jules verne

Famous books; around the world in eighty days , journey to the centre of the
earth, the mysterious island
Reason for choosing this author;
he is a major literary author of France and is also called as the father of science
fiction.
His works were laid on the foundation of modern sciences which interested me
deeply.
His ideas gave me break from monotonous life and gave me an opportunity to
break free into the world of creativity and imagination.
On reading his works it felt as if I was living his adventures in an alternative
reality.
Another reason for my fascination for jules vernes works is because he wrote
about spacecrafts, aeroplanes and submarines much before they were
invented.
Thus I chose jules verne and his works.
Background writings;
His most famous story, Around the World in Eighty Days, is more realistic than
much of his work as it's set in a real rather than a possible world. The story was
based on the travels of an eccentric man from Boston, called George Frances
Tain, who set out to do exactly what the title suggested. The books famous
hero, Phileas Fogg, was named after a travel writer of the time, William Parry
Fogg. The hilarious adventures of Phileas Fogg and his servant Paspartout, owe
everything to Verne's imagination.
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863): Ballooning had been around for nearly a
century when this novel was published, but the central character, Dr.
Fergusson, develops a device that allows him easily to change the altitude of
his balloon without relying on ballast so that he can find favorable winds.
Fergusson and his companions traverse the African continent in their balloon,
encountering extinct animals, cannibals, and savages along the way.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864): The characters in Verne's third novel
don't actually go to the true center of the earth, but they do travel across all of
Europe through a series of underground caverns, lakes, and rivers. The
subterranean world Verne creates is illuminated by glowing green gases, and
the adventures encounter everything from pterosaurs to a herd of mastodons
to a twelve-foot-tall human. Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of
Verne's most sensational and least plausible works, but perhaps for those very
reasons, it has remained one of his most popular.
From the Earth to the Moon (1865): In his fourth novel, Verne imagines a
group of adventurers building a cannon so large that it can shoot a bullet-
shaped capsule with three occupants to the moon. Needless to say, the physics
of doing this are impossible—the speed of the projectile through the
atmosphere would cause it to burn up, and the extreme g-forces would be
lethal to its occupants. In Verne's fictional world, however, the main characters
succeed not in landing on the moon, but in orbiting it. Their stories continue in
the novel's sequel, Around the Moon (1870).
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870): When Verne wrote his sixth
novel, submarines were crude, small, and extremely dangerous. With Captain
Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus, Verne imagines a miraculous vehicle
capable of circling the globe underwater. This favorite novel of Verne's takes
his readers to the deepest parts of the ocean and gives them a glimpse of the
strange fauna and flora of the world's seas. The novel also predicts the globe-
circling nuclear submarines of the 20th century.
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873): Whereas most of Verne's novels push
science well beyond what was possible in the nineteenth century, Around the
World in Eighty Days presents a race around the globe that was, in fact,
feasible. The completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, the opening of
the Suez Canal, and the development of large, iron-hulled steamships made
the journey possible. The novel certainly includes elements of adventure as the
travelers rescue a woman from immolation and are pursued by a Scotland Yard
detective, but the work is very much a celebration of existing technologies.

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