Jules Verne himself believed that his country certainly did have such obligations. Incidentally, Verne’s sympathies for the Poles echo those of the American author and poet Edgar Allen Poe, the master ...

The construction of the Nautilus also contained errors—for example, the placement of depth rudders and the use of a compass inside a metal hull did not make practical sense. Jules Verne forever ...

As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne feeds into the modern ...

Aubry's "Le roman moderne d'hypothèse scientifique" (La Revue des Idées, 1906 No. 37) to the latest monograph by Henri Baudin, La science-fiction (Paris 1971), all French students of SF have granted a ...

George Roux (1850–1929) was a French artist renowned for his illustrations of Jules Verne’s science ... another illustrator of Verne’s works, with whom Roux shared a similar style and subject matter.