BIOGRAPHY:
Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828 in Nantes, of an acknowledged
father and a mother resulting from an easy family. After having
followed studies of philosophy to Nantes, Jules Verne settles
in Paris in 1848 to study the right there. There, he writes
some poems and a play that Alexandre Dumas agrees to go up.
In 1850, its finished studies, Jules decides not to take the
succession of his/her father to devote itself to the writing.
He publishes his first news quickly and devotes himself to the
writing of more consistent accounts such as Martin Paz, Maître
Zacharius, a Wintering in the ices or of the plays like Colin
Maillard. In 1856, Jules Verne makes the knowledge of his future
wife, Honorine Morel, widow of Fraysne de Viane, old of twenty-six
years and mother of two children. The single child of Jules
Verne, Michel, is born on August 3, 1861.
In
1862, its meeting with the editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel marks
a turning in its career. Jules Verne leaves its first large
novel the following year. Five weeks in balloon is an immediate
success and precedes the long series of the "Extraordinary
Voyages" made up of 54 titles. Jules Verne, as a scholar
who it is, also publishes of other works: Illustrated geography
of France and its colonies, History of the great voyages and
the large travellers. Patient from diabetes, Jules Verne will
extinguish March 24, 1905 in Amiens while leaving several novels
not published, some will be modified by his/her Michel son who
adds chapters, cut off, put in scene new characters, change
the dialogues and the conclusions from them, thus denaturing
the work of his/her father, the first large author of Science
Fiction.
EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGES :
Cinq semaines en
Ballon (1863)
Voyage au centre de la Terre (1864)
De la Terre à la Lune / Autour de la Lune (1865 - 1870)
Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras (1866)
Les Enfants du capitaine Grant (1867)
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (1870)
Une Ville flottante (1871)
Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais (1872)
Le Pays des fourrures (1873)
Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873)
L'Ile mystérieuse (1874)
Le Chancellor (1875)
Michel Strogoff (1876)
Hector Servadac (1877)
Les Indes noires (1877)
Un Capitaine de quinze ans (1878)
Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum (1879)
Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine (1879)
La Maison à vapeur (1880)
La Jangada (1881)
Le Rayon vert (1882)
L'Ecole des Robinsons (1882)
Kéraban le têtu (1883)
L'Archipel en feu (1884)
L'Etoile du Sud (1884)
Mathias Sandorf (1885)
Robur le conquérant (1886)
Un Billet de loterie (1886)
Le Chemin de France (1887)
Nord contre Sud (1887)
Deux Ans de vacances (1888)
Sans dessus dessous (1889)
Famille sans nom (1889)
César Cascabel (1890)
Mistress Branican (1891)
Le Château des Carpathes (1892)
Claudius Bombarnac (1892)
P'tit Bonhomme (1893)
Mirifiques Aventures de Maître Antifer (1894)
L'Ile à hélice (1895)
Face au drapeau (1896)
Clovis Dardentor (1896)
Le Sphinx des glaces (1897)
Le Superbe Orénoque (1898)
Le Testament d'un excentrique (1899)
Seconde patrie (1900)
Le Village aérien (1901)
Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin (1901)
Les Frères Kip (1902)
Bourses de voyage (1903)
Maître du Monde (1904)
Un Drame en Livonie (1904)
L'Invasion de la mer (1905)
Le Phare du bout du monde (1906)
Le Volcan d'or (1906)
L'Agence Thompson et compagnie (1907)
La Chasse au météore (1908)
Le Pilote du Danube (1908)
Les Naufragés du Jonathan (1910)
Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz (1910)
L'Etonnante aventure de la Mission Barsac (1919)
