All of Jules' stories are true. Jules Verne - biography, information, personal life

26.04.2019

Jules Verne, Jules Gabriel Verne; France, Paris; 02/08/1828 – 03/24/1905

Jules Verne's books need no introduction. Many of them have been filmed more than once in many countries around the world, and his novels are even now enjoying enormous success. And this despite the fact that many of the predictions of this great science fiction writer have already come true, many readers still express a desire to read Jules Verne’s books. An excellent confirmation of this is the high place of one of the first science fiction writers in our ranking. A numerous books writer in our ratings allow us to say a lot about his significance in world literature.

Briefly about Jules Verne

Jules Verne was the first of five children in the family of lawyer Pierre Verne. Therefore, the further choice of profession was predetermined and Jules began to study law in Paris. Nose early years Jules Verne gravitated towards literature and therefore, like many writers of those years, he began by writing a play. In 1850, his play “Broken Straws” was staged at the Historical Theater named after. After that, for more than two years he worked as the secretary to the director of the Lyric Theater, was a stockbroker, but did not stop writing.

In 1857, Jules Verne married the widow Honorine, whom he met at a friend's wedding. Around the same period, he began to travel actively. So in 1859 he visited England and Scotland, in 1961 he visited Scandinavia, and in 1867 he visited the USA. Just during the trip to Scandinavia, Vern’s only son is born.

Jules Verne's first novel was published in 1863. It was called "Five Weeks Away" hot air balloon"and was received very favorably by the public. Subsequently, Jules Verne wrote all his new books in the same genre, and they became a huge success not only in France, but throughout the world. The science fiction writer’s hard work is simply incredible; he works almost every day from five in the morning to eight in the evening. At the same time, he continued to travel until 1886. when he was wounded in the ankle by a mentally unstable nephew with a revolver. And even when Jules Verne became completely blind shortly before his death, he continued to dictate new works. By the way, many of them were published more than 80 years after the writer’s death, thanks to the writer’s great-grandson.

The novels of Jules Verne left a huge mark on the history of literature. Many of today's luminaries of science fiction began with the books of Jules Verne. Many others consider themselves to be one of these. During his work, the science fiction writer managed to predict the appearance of airplanes and helicopters, the active use of aluminum, space flights, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, television, video communications and much more.

Jules Verne books on the Top books website

In the ratings of our site, Jules Verne's novels are represented not only among. Many of them, even after the advent of many, so excite the minds of readers that they are in the rating. One of these is the novel “ Mysterious island» to read which over the years the number of people willing to read does not decrease. But other Jules Verne books also find their readers.

All books by Jules Verne

This list of books by Jules Verne contains all works of art writer. Some of them were published after the author’s death. At the same time, this list of books by Jules Verne does not include the writer’s plays, which have practically not been translated into Russian.

Adventure trilogy:

Books outside the series:

Thompson & Co. Agency.
The archipelago is on fire.
Bluff. American morals.
Brothers Kip.
In Magellania (At the end of the world).
Chasing the meteor
Chasing the meteor.
In the land of furs.
Bottom up.
Magnificent Orinoco.
The hilarious troubles of three travelers in Scandinavia.
Eternal Adam.
Lord of the world.
Around the Moon.
Second homeland.
Sea invasion.
Hector Servadac. Travels and adventures in the circumsolar world.
Mister D-sharp and Mrs. E-flat.
Comte de Chantalin.
Two years of vacation.
Village in the air.
Ten hours on the hunt.
Road to France.
Drama is in the air.
Drama in Livonia.
Drama in Mexico.
Danube pilot.
Uncle Robinson.
Zhangada. Eight hundred leagues along the Amazon.
Zhededya Zhamet or the story of one inheritance.
Marriage of M. Anselme de Thiol.
The will of an eccentric.
Castle in the Carpathians.
Green beam.
Wintering in ice.
Golden Volcano (Klondike).
Golden Volcano.
Ideal city
Stories of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin.
Clovis Dardantor.
Claudius Bombarnac. Notebook reporter on the opening of the great Trans-Asian Highway
Shipwreck of the Jonathan.
Ice sphinx.
Lottery ticket № 9672.
Baby.
Martin Paz.
Master Zacharius.
Matthias Sandor.
Lighthouse at the end of the world.
Lighthouse at the end of the world. Original version.
Mrs. Breniken.
Mikhail Strogoff. Moscow - Irkutsk.
Rebels with the Bounty.
Foundling from the dead "Cynthia"
Extraordinary Adventures Barsak's expedition.
One day of an American journalist in 2890.
Study tour.
Siege of Rome.
Paris in the twentieth century.
Steam house. Traveling through Northern India.
Floating city.
Floating island.
Beautiful yellow Danube.
Adventures of the Raton family. Philosophical tale.
Adventures three Russians and three Englishmen in South Africa.
Doctor Ox's quirk.
Those who broke the blockade.
Journey to England and Scotland (Journey Backwards).
The Voyage and Adventures of Captain Hatteras.
Fellows' journey.
Five weeks in a hot air balloon. The journey and discoveries of three Englishmen in Africa.
Five hundred million begumas
Robur the Conqueror.
Direct route from Earth to Moon in 97 hours 20 minutes.
San Carlos.
The Priest in 1835 (The Priest in 1839. ed. 1992).
North versus South.
Family without a name.
The fate of Jean Morin.
The Mystery of Wilhelm Storitz (The Invisible Woman, The Invisible Bride, The Secret of Storitz).
The Mystery of Wilhelm Storitz.
The worries of one Chinese in China.
The amazing adventures of Uncle Antifer.
Stubborn Keraban.
Flag of the homeland.
Fritt-Flacc.
Gil Braltar.
Caesar Cascabel.
Chancellor. Passenger's Diary J.-R. Casallona.
Black India.
Robinson School.
Express of the future.
South Star

Jules Gabriel Verne (French: Jules Gabriel Verne). Born February 8, 1828 in Nantes, France - died March 24, 1905 in Amiens, France. French geographer and writer, classic of adventure literature, one of the founders science fiction.

Member of the French Geographical Society. According to UNESCO statistics, Jules Verne's books rank second in terms of translation in the world, second only to the works of Agatha Christie.

Father - lawyer Pierre Verne (1798-1871), descended from a family of Provins lawyers. Mother - Sophie-Nanina-Henriette Allot de la Fuie (1801-1887), had Scottish roots. Jules Verne was the first of five children. After him were born: brother Paul (1829) and three sisters: Anna (1836), Matilda (1839) and Marie (1842).

Jules Verne's wife's name was Honorine de Vian (nee Morel). Honorine was a widow and had two children from her first marriage. On May 20, 1856, Jules Verne arrived in Amiens for his friend’s wedding, where he met Honorine for the first time. On January 10, 1857, they married and settled in Paris, where Verne lived for several years. Four years later, on August 3, 1861, Honorine gave birth to a son, Michel (d. 1925), their only child. Jules Verne was not present at the birth, as he was traveling in Scandinavia. The son was involved in cinematography and filmed several of his father’s works - “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” (1916), “The Fate of Jean Morin” (1916), “Black India” (1917), “Southern Star” (1918), “Five Hundred Million Begums” "(1919).

Grandson - Jean-Jules Verne (1892-1980), author of a monograph on the life and work of his grandfather, on which he worked for about 40 years (published in France in 1973, Russian translation carried out in 1978 by the Progress publishing house). Great-grandson - Jean Verne (b. 1962), a famous opera tenor, it was he who found the manuscript of the novel “Paris in the 20th Century”, which for many years considered a family myth.

The son of a lawyer, Verne studied law in Paris, but his love of literature prompted him to follow a different path. In 1850, Verne's play "Broken Straws" was successfully staged at the "Historical Theater" by A. Dumas. In 1852-1854, Verne worked as secretary to the director of the Lyric Theater, then was a stockbroker, while still writing comedies, librettos, and stories.

In 1863, he published the first novel from the series “Extraordinary Travels” in J. Etzel’s magazine “Magazine for Education and Leisure”: “Five Weeks in a Balloon” (Russian translation 1864 ed. by M. A. Golovachev, 306 pp., entitled : " Air travel through Africa. Compiled from the notes of Dr. Fergusson by Julius Verne").

The success of the novel inspired Verne; he decided to continue to work in this “key,” accompanying the romantic adventures of his heroes with increasingly skillful descriptions of incredible, but nevertheless carefully thought out scientific miracles born of his imagination.

The cycle continued with novels:

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864),
"The Voyage and Adventures of Captain Hatteras" (1865),
"From the Earth to the Moon" (1865),
"Captain Grant's Children" (1867),
"Around the Moon" (1869),
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870),
"Around the World in 80 Days" (1872),
"The Mysterious Island" (1874),
"Michael Strogoff" (1876),
"The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain" (1878),
"Robourg the Conqueror" (1886)
and many others.

In total, Jules Verne wrote 66 novels, including unfinished ones published at the end of the 20th century, as well as more than 20 novellas and short stories, more than 30 plays, several documentary and scientific works.

The work of Jules Verne is imbued with the romance of science, faith in the good of progress, and admiration for the power of thought. He also sympathetically describes the struggle for national liberation.

In the novels of Jules Verne, readers found not only an enthusiastic description of technology and travel, but also bright and vivid images noble heroes(Captain Hatteras, Captain Grant, Captain Nemo), cute eccentric scientists (Professor Lidenbrock, Doctor Clawbonny, Cousin Benedict, geographer Jacques Paganel).

In his later works there was a fear of the use of science for criminal purposes: “Flag of the Motherland” (1896), “Lord of the World” (1904), “The Extraordinary Adventures of the Barsak Expedition” (1919) (the novel was completed by the writer’s son, Michel Verne).

Faith in constant progress was replaced by an anxious expectation of the unknown. However, these books were never as huge a success as his previous works.

After the writer's death there remained large number unpublished manuscripts that continue to be published to this day. Thus, the novel “Paris in the 20th Century” from 1863 was published only in 1994.

Jules Verne was not an “armchair” writer; he traveled a lot around the world, including on his yachts “Saint-Michel I”, “Saint-Michel II” and “Saint-Michel III”. In 1859 he traveled to England and Scotland. In 1861 he visited Scandinavia.

In 1867, Verne took a transatlantic cruise on the Great Eastern to the United States, visiting New York and Niagara Falls.

In 1878, Jules Verne made a long voyage on the yacht Saint-Michel III Mediterranean Sea, visiting Lisbon, Tangier, Gibraltar and Algeria. In 1879, Jules Verne again visited England and Scotland on the yacht Saint-Michel III. In 1881, Jules Verne visited the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark on his yacht. Then he planned to reach St. Petersburg, but a strong storm prevented this.

In 1884, Jules Verne made his last great journey. On the Saint-Michel III he visited Algeria, Malta, Italy and other Mediterranean countries. Many of his trips subsequently formed the basis of “Extraordinary Journeys” - “The Floating City” (1870), “Black India” (1877), “The Green Ray” (1882), “Lottery Ticket No. 9672” (1886) and others.

On March 9, 1886, Jules Verne was seriously wounded in the ankle by a revolver shot from his mentally ill nephew Gaston Verne, Paul's son, and he had to forget about traveling forever.

In 1892, the writer became a Knight of the Legion of Honor.

Shortly before his death, Verne went blind, but still continued to dictate books. The writer died on March 24, 1905 from diabetes. After his death, the writer’s card index remained, including over 20 thousand notebooks with information from all areas of human knowledge.

Jules Verne's predictions:

1. Fulfilled:

In his works, he predicted scientific discoveries and inventions in a variety of fields, including scuba diving, television and space flights.
Electric chair.
Airplane(“Lord of the World”)
Helicopter(“Robur the Conqueror”).
Flights into space, including to the Moon(“From the Earth to the Moon”), interplanetary travel("Hector Servadac")
In the novels “From the Earth to the Moon by a Direct Road in 97 Hours 20 Minutes” and “Around the Moon,” Jules Verne anticipated some aspects of future space exploration: Using aluminum as the base metal for the construction of the shell car. Despite the high cost of aluminum in the 19th century, this predicted its future widespread use for the needs of the aerospace industry.
The location of Stones Hill in Florida was chosen as the starting point for the lunar expedition. This location is close to the location of the modern Cape Canaveral spaceport.
Jules Verne's first flight to the Moon actually took place in April; the crew included three astronauts and both spacecraft splashed down in the same area of the Atlantic.
Video communication and television(“Paris in the twentieth century”).
Construction of the Trans-Siberian and Trans-Mongolian Railways(“Claudius Bombarnack. A reporter’s notebook about the opening of the great Trans-Asian Highway (From Russia to Beijing)”).
Airplane with variable thrust vectoring(“The Extraordinary Adventures of the Barsak Expedition”).
Fundamental passability of the Northern Sea Route in one navigation(“Foundling from the dead “Cynthia”).”
Verne is sometimes mistakenly credited with predicting the submarine. In fact, during Verne's time submarines already existed. However, according to the described characteristics, the Nautilus surpasses even the submarines of the 21st century. Also, not entirely correctly, Verne is credited with predicting cinema in the novel “Castle in the Carpathians” - in the book, the singer’s vision was a static hologram made with the help of a magic lantern. However, the question of the possible priority of the description of invisibility remains controversial - the novel "The Mystery of Wilhelm Storitz" was written after the stories of Fitz James O'Brien and Edward Mitchell Page, and was published only in 1910.

1. Unfulfilled:

Earth at the North Pole(The Adventures of Captain Hatteras) and ocean in the South(“Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”): everything turned out to be the opposite.
Underground strait under the Suez Canal(“Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”).
Manned flight to the Moon in a cannon shell. It is worth noting that it was this “mistake” that prompted K. E. Tsiolkovsky to study the theory of space flight.
The Earth's core is cold.
In the series “Robur the Conqueror”, “Lord of the World” 3 types are described aircraft heavier than air: helicopter, ornithopter and paraglider. But the most common paraglider in our time has not received its own history. Instead, there were Albatross and Grozny.

Jules Verne, whose biography interests children and adults, is a French writer considered a classic of literature. His works contributed to the development of science fiction and also became an incentive for practical space exploration. What kind of life did Jules Verne live? His biography is marked by many achievements and difficulties.

Origin of the writer

The years of our hero's life are 1828-1905. He was born on the banks of the Loire, in the city of Nantes, located near its mouth. The picture presented below is an image of this city, dating back to approximately the time of the life of the writer we are interested in.

1828 Jules Verne was born. His biography would be incomplete if we did not talk about his parents. Jules was born into the family of lawyer Pierre Verne. This man had his own office and wanted his eldest son to follow in his footsteps, which is understandable. The mother of the future writer, nee Allott de la Fuye, was from an ancient family of Nantes shipbuilders and shipowners.

Childhood

From an early age she was marked by the studies of such a writer as Jules Verne, a short biography. There were few organized learning options for children as young as 6 years old. That's why Jules Verne went to his neighbor for lessons. She was the widow of a sea captain. When the boy was 8 years old, he entered the Saint-Stanislaus seminary. After this, Jules Verne continued his studies at the Lyceum, where he received a classical education. He learned Latin and Greek languages, geography, rhetoric, learned to sing.

About how Jules Verne studied jurisprudence (short biography)

4th grade of school is the time when we first become acquainted with the work of this writer. His novel “The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain” is recommended for this time. However, if they study the biography of Jules Verne in school, it is very superficial. Therefore, we decided to talk in detail about him, in particular, about how the future writer studied jurisprudence.

Jules Verne received his bachelor's degree in 1846. The biography of his young years is marked by the fact that he had to constantly resist his father’s attempts to make him a lawyer. Under his strong pressure, Jules Verne was forced to study law in his hometown. In April 1847, our hero decided to go to Paris. Here he passed the necessary exams for the 1st year of study, after which he returned to Nantes.

First plays, continued training

Jules Verne was very attracted to the theater, for which he wrote 2 plays - “The Gunpowder Plot” and “Alexander VI”. They were introduced to a narrow circle of acquaintances. Verne was well aware that theater is, first and foremost, Paris. He manages, although not without difficulty, to obtain permission from his father to go to the capital to continue his studies. This joyful event for Verne took place in November 1848.

Hard times for Jules Verne

However, the main difficulties lay ahead for a writer like Jules Verne. Brief biography he was marked by great tenacity shown when confronted with them. The father allowed his son to continue his education only in the field of law. After graduating from the School of Law in Paris and receiving a diploma, Jules Verne did not return to his father's law office. Much more tempting for him was the prospect of activity in the field of theater and literature. He decided to stay in Paris and with great enthusiasm began to master his chosen path. Persistence even led to a half-starved existence, which he had to lead because his father refused to help him. Jules Verne began to create vaudevilles, comedies, librettos of various classical operas, dramas, although they could not be sold.

At this time he lived with a friend in the attic. Both of them were very poor. The writer was forced to do odd jobs for several years. His service in a notary office did not work out, since it left very little time for literary works. Jules Verne also did not last as a clerk at the bank. His brief biography during this difficult time is marked by tutoring, which provided at least some means. Jules Verne taught law students.

Visiting the library

Our hero is addicted to visiting National Library. Here he listened to scientific debates and lectures. He made acquaintance with travelers and scientists. Jules Verne became acquainted with geography, navigation, astronomy, scientific discoveries. He copied information that interested him from books, at first not quite imagining why he might need it.

Work in the lyric theater, new works

After some time, namely in 1851, our hero got a job at the Lyric Theater, which had just opened. Jules Verne began working there as a secretary. Biography, creativity and interesting facts about it in subsequent years should be presented in detail.

Jules Verne began writing for a magazine called the Musée des Families. In the same year, 1851, this magazine Jules Verne's first stories were published. These are "The First Ships of the Mexican Navy", later renamed "Drama in Mexico"; as well as “Balloon Journey” (another name for this work is “Drama in the Air”).

Meeting A. Dumas and V. Hugo, marriage

Jules Verne, while still an aspiring author, met someone who began to patronize him; and also with Victor Hugo. It is possible that it was Dumas who suggested that his friend focus on the topic of travel. Verne had a desire to describe the whole world - plants, animals, nature, customs and peoples. He decided to combine art and science, and also to populate his novels with hitherto unprecedented characters.

Verne married a widow named Honorine de Vian (maiden name Morel) in January 1857. At the time of marriage, the girl was 26 years old.

First novel

After some time, Jules Verne decided to break with the theater. He completed his first novel, entitled “Five Weeks in a Balloon,” in 1862. Dumas advised him to contact Etzel, the publisher of the “Journal of Education and Entertainment,” intended for the younger generation, with this work. His novel is about those made from a hot air balloon geographical discoveries was evaluated and published early next year. Etzel entered into a long-term contract with a successful debutant - Jules Verne was supposed to create 2 volumes a year.

Novels by Jules Verne

As if making up for lost time, the writer begins to create many works, each of which is a real masterpiece. In 1864, “Journey to the Center of the Earth” appeared, a year later - “From the Earth to the Moon” and “The Voyage of Captain Hatteras”, and in 1870 - “Around the Moon”. In these works, Jules Verne involved 4 main problems that occupied the scientific world at that time: the conquest of the pole, controlled aeronautics, flights beyond the gravity of the earth and the mysteries of the underworld.

"Captain Grant's Children" is Verne's fifth novel, which appeared in 1868. After its publication, the writer decided to combine all the previously written and planned books into one series, which he called “Extraordinary Journeys.” And the author decided to make a trilogy of Verne’s novel “The Children of Captain Grant”. In addition to him, it included the following works: “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” from 1870 and “The Mysterious Island” created in 1875. The pathos of the heroes unites this trilogy. They are not just travelers, but also fighters against various types injustice, colonialism, racism, slave trade. The appearance of all these works brought him worldwide fame. Many people became interested in the biography of Jules Verne. After some time, his books began to appear in Russian, German and many other languages.

Life in Amiens

Jules Verne left Paris in 1872 and never returned there. He moved to Amiens, a small provincial town. From now on, the entire biography of Jules Verne boils down to the word “work.”

Written in 1872, this author's novel Around the World in Eighty Days was an extraordinary success. In 1878, he published the book “The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain,” in which he protested against racial discrimination. This work has gained great popularity on all continents. In his next novel, which tells about civil war in America in the 60s, he continued this theme. The book is called "North vs. South". It was published in 1887.

In total, Jules Verne created 66 novels, including unfinished ones published at the end of the 20th century. In addition, he has written more than 20 stories and novellas, more than 30 plays, as well as several scientific and documentary works.

Last years of life

Jules Verne was shot in the ankle by Gaston Verne, his nephew, on March 9, 1886. He shot him with a revolver. It is known that Gaston Verne was mentally ill. After this incident, the writer had to forget about traveling forever.

In 1892, our hero received a well-deserved award - the Order of the Legion of Honor. Jules went blind shortly before his death, but continued to create works, dictating them. On March 24, 1905, Jules Verne died of diabetes. The biography for children and adults presented in this article, we hope, has aroused your interest in his work.

Name: Jules Verne

Age: 77 years old

Height: 165

Activity: geographer and writer, classic of adventure literature

Marital status: was married

Jules Verne: biography

UNESCO statistics claim that the books are classics of the adventure genre, French writer and the geographer Jules Gabriel Verne in second place in the number of translations after the works of the “detective’s grandmother”.

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in the city of Nantes, located at the mouth of the Loire and fifty kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean.

Jules Gabriel is the first-born in the Verne family. A year after his birth, a second son, Paul, appeared in the family, and 6 years later, sisters Anna, Matilda and Marie were born with a difference of 2-3 years. The head of the family is second-generation lawyer Pierre Verne. The ancestors of Jules Verne's mother are Celts and Scots who moved to France in the 18th century.

During his childhood, Jules Verne’s range of hobbies was determined: the boy read voraciously fiction, preferring adventure stories and novels, and knew everything about ships, yachts and rafts. Jules's passion was shared by his younger brother Paul. The love of the sea was instilled in the boys by their grandfather, a ship owner.

At the age of 9, Jules Verne was sent to a closed lyceum. After finishing the boarding school, the head of the family insisted that his eldest son enter a law school. The guy didn’t like jurisprudence, but he gave in to his father and passed the exams at the Paris Institute. A youthful love of literature and a new hobby - theater - greatly distracted the aspiring lawyer from lectures on law. Jules Verne disappeared into the theater backstage, did not miss a single premiere and began writing plays and librettos for operas.

The father, who was paying for his son’s education, became angry and stopped funding Jules. The young writer found himself on the brink of poverty. Supported a beginner colleague. On the stage of his theater, he staged a play based on the play of his 22-year-old colleague, “Broken Straws.”

To survive, the young writer worked as a secretary in a publishing house and tutored.

Literature

New page in creative biography Jules Verne appeared in 1851: the 23-year-old writer wrote and published his first story, “Drama in Mexico,” in the magazine. The undertaking turned out to be successful, and the inspired writer, in the same vein, created a dozen new adventure stories, the heroes of which find themselves in a cycle of amazing events in different corners planets.

From 1852 to 1854, Jules Verne worked at Dumas' Lyric Theater, then got a job as a stockbroker, but did not stop writing. From writing short stories, comedies and librettos, he moved on to creating novels.

Success came in the early 1860s: Jules Verne decided to write a series of novels, united under the title “Extraordinary Journeys.” The first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, appeared in 1863. The work was published by the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in his “Magazine for Education and Leisure.” The same year the novel was translated into English.

In Russia translated from French the novel was published in 1864 under the title “Air Journey through Africa. Compiled from the notes of Dr. Fergusson by Julius Verne.”

A year later, the second novel in the series appeared, entitled “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” telling about a professor of mineralogy who found an ancient manuscript of an Icelandic alchemist. The encrypted document tells how to get into the earth's core through a passage in the volcano. The science-fiction plot of Jules Verne's work is based on the hypothesis, not completely rejected in the 19th century, that the earth is hollow.

Illustration for Jules Verne's book "From the Earth to the Moon"

The first novel tells about an expedition to the North Pole. During the years of writing the novel, the pole was not open and the writer imagined it active volcano, located in the center of the sea. The second work talks about man’s first “Lunar” journey and makes a number of predictions that have come true. The science fiction writer describes the devices that allowed his heroes to breathe in space. The principle of their operation is the same as in modern devices: air purification.

Two more predictions that came true were the use of aluminum in aerospace and the site of a prototype spaceport (“Gun Club”). According to the writer's plan, the projectile car from which the heroes went to the Moon is located in Florida.

In 1867, Jules Verne gave fans the novel “The Children of Captain Grant,” which was filmed twice in the Soviet Union. The first time was in 1936 by director Vladimir Vainshtok, the second time in 1986.

“The Children of Captain Grant” is the first part of a trilogy. Three years later, the novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” was published, and in 1874, “The Mysterious Island,” a Robinsonade novel. The first work tells the story of Captain Nemo, who plunged into the depths of the water on the Nautilus submarine. The idea for the novel was suggested to Jules Verne by a writer who was a fan of his work. The novel formed the basis of eight films, one of them, “Captain Nemo,” was filmed in the USSR.

Illustration for Jules Verne's book "The Children of Captain Grant"

In 1869, before writing the two parts of the trilogy, Jules Verne published a sequel to the science fiction novel “From the Earth to the Moon” - “Around the Moon”, the heroes of which are the same two Americans and a Frenchman.

Jules Verne presented the adventure novel “Around the World in 80 Days” in 1872. His heroes, the British aristocrat Fogg and the enterprising and savvy servant Passepartout, were so popular with readers that the story about the heroes’ journey was filmed three times and five animated series were made based on it in Australia, Poland, Spain and Japan. In the Soviet Union, a cartoon produced by Australia directed by Leif Graham is known, which premiered during the school winter holidays in 1981.

In 1878, Jules Verne presented the story “The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain” about junior sailor Dick Sand, who was forced to take command of the whaling ship Pilgrim, whose crew died in a fight with a whale.

In the Soviet Union, two films were made based on the novel: in 1945, black and white painting directed by Vasily Zhuravlev “The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain” and in 1986 “Captain of the Pilgrim” by Andrei Prachenko, in which they starred, and.

IN later novels Fans of Jules Verne's creativity saw the writer's latent fear of the rapid progress of science and a warning against using discoveries for inhumane purposes. These are the 1869 novel “Flag of the Motherland” and two novels written in the early 1900s: “Lord of the World” and “The Extraordinary Adventures of the Barsak Expedition.” Last piece completed by Jules Verne's son, Michel Verne.

The late novels of the French writer are less known than the early ones written in the 60s and 70s. Jules Verne was inspired for his works not in the quiet of his office, but while traveling. On the yacht “Saint-Michel” (that was the name of the novelist’s three ships), he sailed around the Mediterranean Sea, visited Lisbon, England and Scandinavia. On the Great Eastern he made a transatlantic cruise to America.

In 1884, Jules Verne visited the Mediterranean countries. This journey is the last in the life of the French writer.

The novelist wrote 66 novels, more than 20 stories and 30 plays. After his death, relatives, sorting through the archives, found many manuscripts that Jules Verne planned to use in writing future works. Readers saw the novel “Paris in the 20th Century” in 1994.

Personal life

Jules Verne met his future wife, Honorine de Vian, in the spring of 1856 in Amiens at a friend’s wedding. The flaring up of feelings was not hindered by Honorine’s two children from her previous marriage (de Vian’s first husband died).

In January of the following year, the lovers got married. Honorine and her children moved to Paris, where Jules Verne settled and worked. Four years later, the couple had a son, Michel. The boy appeared when his father was traveling in the Mediterranean on the Saint-Michel.

Michel Jean Pierre Verne created a film company in 1912, on the basis of which he filmed five of his father’s novels.

The novelist's grandson, Jean-Jules Verne, published a monograph about famous grandfather, which took 40 years to write. It appeared in the Soviet Union in 1978.

Death

Twenty recent years During his life, Jules Verne lived in the Amiens house, where he dictated novels to his family. In the spring of 1886, the writer was wounded in the leg by his mentally ill nephew, the son of Paul Verne. I had to forget about traveling. Diabetes mellitus and, in the last two years, blindness were connected to the injury.

Jules Verne died in March 1905. In the archives of the prose writer beloved by millions, there remain 20 thousand notebooks in which he wrote down information from all branches of science.

A monument was erected at the novelist’s grave, which reads: “ To immortality and eternal youth».

At the age of 11, Jules Verne was hired as a cabin boy on a ship and almost ran away to India.
In his novel Paris in the Twentieth Century, Jules Verne predicted the advent of the fax, video communications, the electric chair and television. But the publisher returned the manuscript to Verne, calling him an “idiot.”
Readers saw the novel “Paris in the 20th Century” thanks to the great-grandson of Jules Verne, Jean Verne. For half a century, the work was considered a family myth, but Jean, an operatic tenor, found the manuscript in the family archive.
In the novel “The Extraordinary Adventures of the Barsac Expedition,” Jules Verne predicted the variable thrust vector in airplanes.

In “The Foundling of the Lost Cynthia,” the writer substantiated the need for the Northern Sea Route to be navigable in one navigation.
Jules Verne did not predict the appearance of a submarine - in his time it already existed. But the Nautilus, captained by Captain Nemo, was superior even to 21st century submarines.
The prose writer was mistaken in considering the core of the earth to be cold.
In nine novels, Jules Verne described the events that unfold in Russia without ever visiting the country.

Verne Quotes

“He knew that in life one inevitably has to, as they say, rub among people, and since friction slows down movement, he stayed away from everyone.”
“Better a tiger on the plain than a snake in the long grass.”
“Isn’t it true, if I don’t have a single flaw, then I will become an ordinary person!”
“A true Englishman never jokes when it comes to something as serious as a bet.”
“Smell is the soul of a flower.”
“New Zealanders only eat people fried or smoked. They are well-bred people and great gourmets.”
“Necessity is the best teacher in all cases of life.”
“The fewer amenities, the fewer needs, and the fewer needs, the happier a person.”

Bibliography

1863 "Five Weeks in a Balloon"
1864 "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
1865 "The Voyage and Adventures of Captain Hatteras"
1867 “Children of Captain Grant. Travel around the world"
1869 "Around the Moon"
1869 "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
1872 "Around the World in Eighty Days"
1874 "The Mysterious Island"
1878 "The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain"
1885 “Foundling from the dead “Cynthia”
1892 “Castle in the Carpathians”
1904 "Lord of the World"
1909 "The Shipwreck of the Jonathan"