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The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography
Features a bibliography to the works of the French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905), compiled by Volker Dehs, Zvi Har'El, and Jean-Michel Margot. Lists novels, short stories, essays, plays, interviews, and speeches of Verne.
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Witness on the Quay
Amy Page, a middle-aged American widow and food columnist from Charleston, South Carolina, is in Paris to write a cookbook. Her lengthy stay in the City of Lights suddenly takes an unexpected turn when a cab driver is murdered in front of her building on the Ile St-Louis. Jean-Michel Jolivet, Inspector for the French Sûreté and Director of the International Bureau of Security, insists that Amy is essential to solving his ever-widening investigation that now involves several murders and an international plot. While interrogating Amy, Jolivet becomes increasingly annoyed with her incessant ramblings about cookbooks, cuisine, the Ile St-Louis, Paris, French history, culture, and architecture--distracting him from the investigation and from finding the killer. Much to Jolivet's surprise, he determines that Amy is much more complex than she seems and may possess an acute power of observation that is strong enough to assist him in his difficult homicide cases. Intrigue and desire may lead Amy and Jolivet to discover more than they bargained for in a passionate journey toward intimacy and joy on the enchanting Ile St-Louis.
The Extraordinary Journeys
"First Mate Shandon receives a mysterious letter asking him to construct a reinforced steamship in Liverpool. As he heads out for Melville Bay and the Arctic labyrinth, a crewman reveals himself to be John Hatteras, and his lifelong obsession, the Pole. Despite experiencing appalling cold and hunger, the captain treks across the frozen wastes in search of fuel. Abandoned by his crew, Hatteras remains without resources at the coldest spot on earth. How can he find food and explore the Polar Sea? And what will he find at the top of the world?"--Back cover.
At Home in the World
The compelling story of a beautiful and versatile South Indian dance form
The Kip Brothers
Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain's murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exciting exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. This Wesleyan edition brings together the first English translation with one of the first detailed critical analyses of the novel, and features all the illustrations from the original 1902 publication.
Journey Through the Impossible
This is the first complete edition and the first English translation of a surprising work by a popular French novelist whose work continues to delight readers to this day.
Invasion of the Sea
First English edition of a classic Verne novel. Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns — environmental, cultural, and political. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.
Jules Verne en son temps
"À travers une cinquantaine d'articles parus du vivant de Jules Verne, entre 1864 et 1905, on découvre un romancier et un dramaturge au faîte de la célébrité, affable sans être extraverti, cultivé sans être pédant, discret sans être absent, et créateur d'un nouveau genre romanesque, le roman géographique et scientifique. Récoltés pendant plus de quarante ans et présentés ici par Jean-Michel Margot, grand spécialiste de l'auteur, président de la Société Jules Verne nord-américaine, ces textes -- dont certains n'ont jamais été reproduits depuis leur publication -- prennent ici un sens nouveau grâce aux introductions et aux nombreuses notes qui les relient et les commentent. Cet ouvrage, où l'on apprend pourquoi le Coca Cola est d'origine corse et comment Jules Verne est indirectement lié à la première édition de la course cycliste Paris-Roubaix, constitue une base indispensable au chercheur vernien ainsi qu'une excellente introduction à Jules Verne et son temps."--Page 4 of cover.
