The Blockade Runners
Published on 25. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
86 pages
978-1-59224-246-7 (ISBN)
Description
Jules Verne once more gives a sympathetic treatment to the Americans in this tale set during the English blockade of American ports. Originally published in 1871 as "Les Forceurs de Blocus." Translated from the French by Mrs. Arthur Bell. Includes a new introduction by literary scholar Darrell Schweitzer, as well as an original frontispiece portrait of Jules Verne.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
121 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59224-246-7 (9781592242467)
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Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).