Search results
Michel Jean Pierre Verne (August 3, 1861 – March 5, 1925) was a writer, editor, and the son of Jules Verne . Michel was born in Paris, France. Because of his wayward behaviour, he was sent by his father to Mettray Penal Colony, a private reformatory near Tours, for six months during 1876.
Michel Verne has 39 books on Goodreads with 4575 ratings. Michel Verne’s most popular book is Works of Jules Verne : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Se...
Michel Verne (1861-1925) wrote or rewrote several posthumous novels attributed to his father, Jules Verne, the famous pioneer of science fiction. He also published some stories under his father's name, such as "Un express de l'avenir" and "L'Éternel Adam".
In the Year 2889 (La Journée d’un journaliste américain en 2889 in French) is an 1889 short story published under the name of Jules Verne, but now believed to be mainly the work of his son Michel Verne, based on his father's ideas.
- Theme
- Publication
- Continued Appeal
- List of Novels
- Short Stories
- Classification
- See Also
- External Links
In a late interview, Verne affirmed that Hetzel's ambitious commission had become the running literary theme of his novel sequence: However, Verne made clear that his own object was more literary than scientific, saying "I do not in any way pose as a scientist"and explaining in another interview:
In the system developed by Hetzel for the Voyages Extraordinaires, each of Verne's novels was published successively in several different formats. This resulted in as many as four distinct editions of each text (labeled here according to current practice for Verne bibliographies): 1. Éditions pré-originales (pre-original editions): Serialization in...
Jules Verne remains to this day the most translated science fiction author in the world as well as one of the most continually reprinted and widely read French authors. Though often scientifically outdated, his Voyagesstill retain their sense of wonder that appealed to readers of his time, and still provoke an interest in the sciences among the you...
Most of the novels in the Voyages series (except for Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Purchase of the North Pole) were first serialized in periodicals, usually in Hetzel's Magasin d'Éducation et de récréation ("Magazine of Education and Recreation"). Almost all of the original book editions were published by Pier...
The Voyagesseries includes two short story collections and seven individual short stories that accompanied one of the novels in the series. The short story collections are: 1. Le Docteur Ox (Doctor Ox, 1874) 2. Hier et Demain (Yesterday and Tomorrow, 1910) (posthumous, with stories completed or modified by Michel Verne) And the individual short sto...
In promotional materials for the series, Verne's editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel classified the Voyages Extraordinairesin several groups, mostly following geographic criteria: 1. The Robinsons Cycle: Godfrey Morgan, Two Years' Vacation, The Castaways of the Flag, The Survivors of the "Jonathan" 2. Europe: Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Child of...
'Zvi Har’El’s Jules Verne Collection' Archived 2005-04-15 at the Wayback MachineThe maps from the Voyages Extraordinaires, scans of all the maps that were included in the original editions of Jules Verne's novels.Michel Verne is the author of Works of Jules Verne (4.31 avg rating, 3298 ratings, 60 reviews, published 1929), In the Year 2889 (3.26 avg rating, 2924 r...
People also ask
Was Michel Verne a good writer?
What happened to Michel Verne?
Who is Jules Verne?
How many books does Michel Verne have?
A review of a book that claims to present the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript of The Golden Volcano, a posthumous novel revised by his son Michel. The reviewer discusses the controversy over Michel's alterations of Verne's works and the reactions of different Verne scholars.
