An edition of Jules Verne (1996)

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An edition of Jules Verne (1996)

Jules Verne

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Drawing on previously unpublished letters and papers, Herbert R. Lottman reveals Jules Verne, the pioneer of the science fiction genre and the uncannily accurate forecaster of twentieth-century invention, in an entirely new light. In this groundbreaking biography, Lottman explores the dark, private side of the visionary writer.

In his long-lost novel, Paris in the Twentieth Century (published in France in 1994, and in the United States in early 1997), Verne predicted a world filled with both technological achievements and monstrosities: cars, fax machines, synthesizers, computers, mass transit, and the electric chair. With uncharacteristic mistrust, Verne simultaneously marveled at the inventions and despaired at what drove people to create them.

It is this elusive, disillusioned aspect of Verne that Herbert Lottman captures here. Tracing Verne's life from his childhood in Nantes to his self-imposed exile outside of Paris as an adult, Lottman sketches a vivid portrait of the man. Lottman brings to light for the first time Verne's secret struggles with his constant wanderlust, his unhappy marriage, his rebellious son, and his overbearing editor-publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel.

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Flammarion
Language
French
Pages
430

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Cover of: Jules Verne
Jules Verne
December 1998, Anagrama
Hardcover in Spanish
Cover of: Jules Verne
Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography
January 1997, St Martins Pr
Hardcover in English - 1st ed edition
Cover of: Jules Verne
Jules Verne: an exploratory biography
1996, St. Martin's Press
Hardback in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Jules Verne
Jules Verne
1996, Flammarion
in French
Cover of: Jules Verne
Jules Verne
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[Paris]
Series
Collection Figures de la science, Grandes biographies Flammarion

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Pagination
430p. ;
Number of pages
430

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16449220M
Internet Archive
julesverne0000lott
ISBN 10
2080670506
Library Thing
768251

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