Jules Verne News (english)

Check out this great listen by Jules Verne on Audible.com. A nobleman, the Count of Chanteleine, leads a rebellion against the revolutionary French government. While he fights for the monarchy and the church, his home is destroyed and his wife murdered by the mob. Now he must save his daughter from the guillotine. This exciting and unknown Jules Verne's swashbuckler is also a meticulous historical re-creation of a particularly bloody episode in the Reign of Terror. Published by the North American Jules Verne Society (NAJVS), in the Palik Series (directed by the vernian Brian Taves), 

Portland, ME (PRWEB) November 06, 2013 -- Nemo Publishing announces that the Hannaford grocery chain is featuring a special bundle pack of "The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli" graphic novels in the front end racks at 75 Hannaford stores all across New England.

Rosalind Williams, a historian of technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has made a career of studying the relationship between science and the society around it. In her new book, “The Triumph of Human Empire”, she takes a close look at the works of three writers who lived through the changes of the 19th century— Robert Louis Stevenson, William Morris, and Jules Verne —to explore the worry that began to simmer below the surface of an age of unprecedented scientific discovery.
Each of the writers expressed this anxiety differently. Morris embraced socialism and turned toward nature; Stevenson and Verne suffused their adventure fiction with concerns about European colonialism and the misuse of innovations. Connecting all three, Williams found, was an awareness about human relationships with the planet that is strikingly modern. In their work, she says, we can see the origins of debates that we are having today, such as how to share the Earth’s finite resources among an ever expanding global population.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. New musical, adapted and written by Aaron Randolph III, played by the Davenport Junior Theatre (Davenport – Iowa). Schedule : saturday february 15th and 22nd, sunday 16th and 23rd. Auditions on December 7, 8, 9. Click here for all the details !

A year earlier, Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochran (1864 – 1922) had suggested to her editor Pulitzer at the New York World that she was to be despatched on a trip which would turn Jules Verne’s fictional Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) into reality. So, with only two days notice, Nellie, 25, was told that she was to board the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line which would start her 24,899-mile journey. Read more...