Jules Verne - Voyages Extraordinaires - César Cascabel - 1890

Jules Verne - Extraordinary Voyages - César Cascabel - Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, n.d. (1890) - 438 pages - 8 pages - 18 x 27.5 cm.

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Hardcover. Publisher's binding. Used condition, rubbed corners. Foxing. Gilded edges - numerous black and white drawings in the text. See the many photos for a good idea of the book's condition. Date on the first page of the frontispiece. Slightly faded. Sturdy binding.


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Jules Verne, born on February 8, 1828, in Nantes, and died on March 24, 1905, in Amiens, was a French writer whose work largely consisted of adventure novels depicting the scientific advances of the 19th century.


Although he initially wrote plays, Verne only achieved success in 1863 when his first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was published by the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814-1886). It was extremely successful, including abroad. From the Adventures of Captain Hatteras onward, his novels became part of the series 'The Extraordinary Voyages,' which comprises 62 novels and 18 short stories, sometimes published serially in the magazine 'Magasin d'éducation et de récréation,' aimed at young readers, or in periodicals for adults such as 'Le Temps' or 'Journal des débats'.

The novels of Jules Verne, always well-researched, are generally set during the second half of the 19th century. They take into account the technologies of the time — The Children of Captain Grant (1868), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Michel Strogoff (1876), The Star of the South (1884), etc. — but also include others that were not yet mastered or more fanciful — From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), Robur the Conqueror (1886), etc.

In addition to his novels, he is credited with numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical writings, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic, and literary studies. His work has been adapted into films and television numerous times since the inception of cinema, as well as into comic books, theater, opera, music, and video games.

Jules Verne's work is universal; according to the Index Translationum, with a total of 4,751 translations, he ranks second among the most translated authors in foreign languages after Agatha Christie and ahead of William Shakespeare. Thus, in 2011, he was the most translated French-language author in the world. The year 2005 in France was declared the 'Jules Verne year,' on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death. (cf. Wikipedia)