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Le Tour Du Monde En Quatre-Vingts Jours (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
Le Tour Du Monde En Quatre-Vingts Jours - Classic Reprint - French Edition Author:Jules Verne Excerpt from Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours — Jules verne, one of the most popular among contempo rary French writers, was born in Nantes, 1828. He began his literary career by writing plays and operatic librettos, but in the year 1863 appeared his Cinq semaines en ballon, a de scription oi life and scenery in Africa, as viewed from a ba... more »lloon in a fancied tour across that continent. This romance, which drew heavily on the discoveries oi modem sciences, opened up an entirely new vein of fiction, which Verne has success fully worked ever since. His inventive imagination, his lively narrative style, and his pleasing expatiations within the attractive field of popular science, a1] combine to sustain wonderfully well the interest of his books. He is less dis tinguished by elegance oi style or psychological analysis his characters often being, in fact, mere automatons - and while he popularizes scientific notions, yct he often exagger ates the possibilities of present-day science.
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