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AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
JULES VERNE was born in 1828 in Nantes, then as now one of France’s most important ports. He developed from childhood a romantic fascination for the sea and ships. After a childhood and adolescence spent in his home town, Verne moved to Paris in 1848, ostensibly to complete his studies and become a lawyer like his father, but his real ambition was to be a writer. With this aim he frequented the Parisian literary salons of the period. Verne’s early works were written for the stage, but during the 1850s he also wrote short stories that were published in one of the most successful illustrated magazines of the time.
Verne’s career as a novelist began in 1863, when the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel accepted for publication the manuscript of what was to become an instant popular success, Five Weeks in a Balloon. All Verne’s best-known and most successful works were published under his contract with Hetzel, who gave them the collective title of ‘Extraordinary Journeys into the Known and Unknown Worlds’. These works include Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1869) and Michael Strogoff (1876), as well as Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). Several of Verne’s novels were also successfully adapted for the stage, including again Around the World in Eighty Days (1874).
From 1869 until his death Verne lived in the town of Amiens in Picardy, where he became increasingly active in local politics and administration as a moderate Republican. After Hetzel’s death in 1886 Verne continued to publish prolifically, working for Hetzel’s son. Novels from this period include The Carpathian Castle (1892) and Propeller Island (1895). After Verne’s death in 1905 his son Michel edited and published a number of posthumous works, though recent scholarship has re-established the original versions of these texts. Verne continues to be one of the most popular and frequently translated of nineteenth-century French writers.
MICHAEL GLENCROSS was born in South Wales and educated there and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read modern languages. He is the author of a book (Reconstructing Camelot, 1995) and various articles in academic journals on nineteenth-century French literature and culture. He now lives in France, where he works as a translator.
BRIAN ALDISS has been writing for half a century. He is best known for his science fiction novels and stories, but has also written several novels on contemporar ............

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