Select Works of Jules Verne (8 vols.)

by Jules Verne

Publishers:

Geo. M. Smith & Co.; Charles Scribner’s Sons; James R. Osgood and Company

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3 more

, 1873–1909

Overview

In literary circles, Jules Verne is hailed as the creator of science fiction, and “the man who invented the future,” for the imaginative worlds his novels inhabited and the extraordinary inventions his characters created. Over two decades before mankind invented the submarine, Verne imagined it in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. A century before the first person ever set foot on the moon, Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon, about a device capable of launching humans into space. With little to no data to draw from, Verne attempted to accurately calculate how these fantastic inventions would interact with the reality he inhabited, setting the stage for a nearly untouched literary genre—science fiction.

The Select Works of Jules Verne (8 vols.) contains eight of Verne’s famous novels, including 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, From the Earth to the Moon, and more. For over a century, Verne’s works have inspired ingenuity and invention, and sparked the imaginations of young and old alike. Scholars, lovers of literature, and adventurous young adults will all enjoy diving into the worlds of Jules Verne.

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Key Features

• Eight imaginative novels by Jules Verne
• Some of the earliest works of science fiction
• Fascinating stories of invention and adventure

Praise for the Author

No praise of his collected works is strong enough . . . they are truly useful, entertaining, poignant, and moral; and Europe and America have merely produced rivals that are remarkably similar to them, but in any case inferior.

—Le Constitutionnel

[Verne was a] man of incommensurate genius. . . [He] raised himself to the highest peaks that can be attained by human language.

—Raymond Roussel, French poet

Jules Verne had already been dead for a dozen years when I was born. Yet I feel strongly connected to him, and his works of science fiction had a major influence on my own career. He is among the top five people I wish I could have met in person.

—Arthur C. Clarke, cowriter of 2001: A Space Odyssey

I used to be somewhat ashamed of my love of Verne, but have recently discovered that he is the darling of the French avant-garde, who take him far more seriously than we Anglo-Saxons do. So I’m in good company.

—Margaret Drabble, English novelist

We are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne.

—Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451

Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life.

—Simon Lake, naval architect and submarine design pioneer

In a very real sense, Jules Verne is one of the pioneers of the space age.

—Frank Borman, former commander of Apollo 8, NASA

Yes, sir, it’s like doing a Jules Verne, because for twenty years, the people who move forward have been doing a Jules Verne.

—Hubert Lyautey, general, French Army (1873–1925), and “French empire builder”

. . . Over the last forty years, they have had an influence unequalled by any other books on the children of this and every country in Europe. And the influence has been good, in so far as can be judged today.

—L’Humanite

Leo Tolstoy loved his works. ‘Jules Verne’s novels are matchless,’ he would say. ‘I read them as an adult, and yet I remember they excited me.’ Jules Verne is an astonishing past master at the art of constructing a story that fascinates and impassions the reader.

—Cyril Andreyev, from “Preface to the Complete Works”

Product Details

• Title: Select Works of Jules Verne
• Author: Jules Verne
• Editors:
• Translators:
• Volumes: 8
• Pages: 2,463

About Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828–1905) was a French novelist, playwright, and poet. In many literary circles he is called the creator of science fiction, and “the man who invented the future,” for the imaginative worlds his adventure novels inhabited and the extraordinary inventions his characters created. Over two decades before mankind invented the submarine, Verne imagined it in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. A century before the first person ever set foot on the moon, Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon, about a device capable of launching human beings into space. With little to no data to draw from, Verne attempted to accurately calculate how these fantastic inventions would interact with the reality he inhabited, setting the stage for a nearly untouched literary genre—science fiction.