Jules Verne, Author, Sydney Kravitz, Translator, Arthur B. Evans, Editor Wesleyan University Press $40 (728p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6475-7 The second title in Wesleyan's new Early Classics of Science ...

Jules Verne is a wonderful writer whose English translations are riven with inaccuracies and prejudice. Let's agitate for a full reappraisal of his work. I'd always liked reading Jules Verne and I've ...

Widely considered to be the "Father of Science Fiction," the famed French poet, novelist, and playwright known as Jules Verne celebrates what would have been his 193rd birthday this year. Born Feb. 8, ...

Ask an Englishman to name a French writer of science fiction and he is likely to answer: Jules Verne (ask him to name another French writer of science fiction and he'll probably go 'that guy who wrote ...

There ought to be a law stipulating that well-meaning relatives may not touch the manuscripts left by their loved ones. It traumatizes a book to have its ending Disneyfied, its time period altered by ...

PHILLIPSBURG, N.J. — Someone has returned a book to a New Jersey library 50 years after it was taken out. The Phillipsburg Free Public Library says its copy of Jules Verne’s “Dropped From The Clouds” ...

Renowned French novelist Jules Verne of the late-19th century once wrote: “(M)y task is to paint the whole earth, the entire world, in novel form, by imagining adventures …” As vacation begins, ...

Jules Verne never visited Cincinnati, but he mentions Cincinnati—and particularly Cincinnati’s Observatory—in several books. Cincinnati, it can be said, loved Jules Verne and knew his works well.

Jules Verne’s novels may have done as much as anything to spur man to new heights—literally. In 1862 Verne had much to do with a new society founded in France. Its founders were an aristocrat, a ...