Jules Verne
By (Author) Jules Verne
Introduction by Ernest Hilbert
Canterbury Classics
Canterbury Classics
9th September 2012
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Commended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Gift Book) 2013
Leather / fine binding
712
Width 159mm, Height 235mm, Spine 41mm
998g
Get cozy with the classics! Jules Verne collects some of the authors best-known works in a beautiful keepsake volume.
2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Finalist in Gift Books
Legendary science fiction and adventure author Jules Verne is remembered for his fascinating stories of travel and excitement. With countless adaptations available, the titles of his works are familiar. But no joy can compare to reading the originals...and reading them in a deluxe classic edition is even better! This elegant book features four classic Verne novels:
French writer Jules Verne (February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905) pioneered the science fiction literary genre. He published many plays, essays, short stories, and poems during his lifetime, but is best known forTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, and A Journey to the Center of the Earth.Today,he is one of the most translated authors in the world.
Ernest Hilbert received his doctorate in English Language and Literature from Oxford University in 2000. He has served as editor for the Oxford Quarterly, Random Houses magazine Bold Type, and the Contemporary Poetry Review. His writing has appeared in American Scholar, The New Republic, The New Criterion, London Magazine, Yale Review, and many other publications. He is an antiquarian bookseller with the firm Bauman Rare Books, where he has had the pleasure of placing many Charles Dickens first editions of into private and public collections.