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 ...

Jules Verne was not just a great French novelist ... His works painted a world driven by technological marvels, many of which did not yet exist but would later become an integral part of human ...

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 ...

Using early Hollywood as a touchstone, the original adaptation of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" penned by a professor ...

A cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel "The Mysterious Island", the story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern ...

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.