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Jules Gabriel Verne

by Fateme from Tehran

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real
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Jules Verne was an amazing writer who predicted the science in the future of the world. Some of his predictions came true. For example in one of his books named Paris in the 20th Century there are lots of inventions that didn’t exist those days like internet, electricity and television,…

He had a wonderful mind with great imagination who can fancy unusual things that no one even think about them. In my opinion he was a genius existing in a wrong time. Maybe if he lived now he could help humanity to live so much easier. Every time I read one of his books I think that how far can somebody think and how good can our mind act.

He was born in western France in 1828. He and his brother were interested in boats. When he was 12 he hid himself in a boat which traveled to India but his father caught him. Later he said "I shall from now on only travel in my imagination."

He went to Paris to study law. But he liked writing more than law. He wrote stories and looked for a publisher. During this period he met Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo, who offered him some writing advice. He also met Honorine de Viane Morel. She was a widow with 2 daughters. They got married in 1857. In 1861 their son Michel Jean Verne was born. "Finally he found Pierre-Jules Hetzel who was one of the important publishers of the 19 century. He helped Verne to improve his writing and published Verne’s books which were rejected by other publishers for being too scientific." He also advised Verne to add comical parts to his stories and to change sad endings to happy ones.

"In 1863 he wrote Paris in the 20th Century, a novel about a young man who lives in a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators." But Hetzel suggested him to wait 20 years to publish it. Verne put the manuscript in a safe and in 1989 his great-grandson discovered it. It was published in 1993.

Jules Verne died on 24th March 1905 and was buried in the La Madeleine Cemetery in Amiens.

He taught me to make my own world with my imagination and to look at things as what they can be, not what they are.

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Verne, Jules. Five Weeks in a Balloon.

Verne, Jules . A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.