Main navigation Events. Open search form. Enter search query Clear Text. Saved Searches Advanced Search. Branches Browse Browse, collapsed Browse. By Age Kids Teens Adults. Classic Catalog. Online Library. Verne passed away March 24, , in Amiens, France at the age of Jules Verne. We welcome your respectful and on-topic comments and questions in this limited public forum.
Community-contributed content represents the views of the user, not those of St. Tammany Parish Library. Footer Menu. Services Book a Ref. The story is of life in Paris in A 16 year old boy who loves poetry and literature but who lives in a world where only business and technology are valued struggles to have a happy life. There are no jobs for soldiers as war is waged by scientists, there are no jobs for journalists as arts are not valued and so there is no real news.
In a society where food is expensive and crops have failed due to poor weather he must eat food that is produced synthetically.
It is a grim picture of life in the future — is it not?! He had never been to Africa and he had never been up in a balloon and yet his tale was so convincing that Le Figaro newspaper ran a feature which considered whether this was a true story or not? No-one could tell and the book became a best seller. Where did Jules Verne get his ideas from? A question that intrigues many people. Verne also knew many who were interested in ballooning and aerial exploration.
He only stayed a week — managing a trip up the Hudson River to Albany, then on to Niagara Falls — but his visit to America made a lasting impact and was reflected in later works. By this point, Verne's works were being translated into English, and he could comfortably live on his writing. Beginning in late , the serialized version of Verne's famed Around the World in Eighty Days Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours first appeared in print. The story of Phileas Fogg and Jean Passepartout takes readers on an adventurous global tour at a time when travel was becoming easier and alluring.
In the century plus since its original debut, the work has been adapted for the theater, radio, television and film, including the classic version starring David Niven. Although he was enjoying immense professional success by the s, Verne began experiencing more strife in his personal life. He sent his rebellious son to a reformatory in , and a few years later Michel caused more trouble through his relations with a minor. In , Verne was shot in the leg by his nephew Gaston, leaving him with a limp for the rest of his life.
His longtime publisher and collaborator Hetzel died a week later, and the following year his mother passed away as well. Having established his residence in the northern French city of Amiens, Verne began serving on its city council in Stricken with diabetes, he died at home on March 24, However, his literary output didn't end there, as Michel assumed control of his father's uncompleted manuscripts.
Additional works surfaced decades later. Backwards to Britain finally was printed in , years after it was written, and Paris in the Twentieth Century , originally considered too far-fetched with its depictions of skyscrapers, gas-fueled cars and mass transit systems, followed in In all, Verne authored more than 60 books most notably the 54 novels comprising the Voyages Extraordinaires , as well as dozens of plays, short stories and librettos.
He conjured hundreds of memorable characters and imagined countless innovations years before their time, including the submarine, space travel, terrestrial flight and deep-sea exploration. His works of imagination, and the innovations and inventions contained within, have appeared in countless forms, from motion pictures to the stage, to television.
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