Journey To The Center Of The Earth. By: Jules Verne. ( Translated By: Frederick Amadeus Malleson ): Novel

Jules Gabriel Verne was born on 8 February 1828 on ?e Feydeau, a small artificial island on the Loire River within the town of Nantes, in No. 4 Rue de Clisson, the house of his maternal grandmother Dame Sophie Allotte de la Fu?e. His parents were Pierre Verne, an attorney originally from Provins, and Sophie Allote de la Fu?e, a Nantes woman from a local family of navigators and shipowners, of distant Scottish descent. In 1829, the Verne family moved some hundred meters away to No. 2 Quai Jean-Bart, where Verne's brother Paul was born the same year. Three sisters, Anna, Mathilde, and Marie, would follow (in 1836, 1839, and 1842, respectively).In 1834, at the age of six, Verne was sent to boarding school at 5 Place du Bouffay in Nantes. The teacher, Mme Sambin, was the widow of a naval captain who had disappeared some 30 years before. Mme Sambin often told the students that her husband was a shipwrecked castaway and that he would eventually return like Robinson Crusoe from his desert island paradise.[9] The theme of the Robinsonade would stay with Verne throughout his life and appear in many of his novels, including The Mysterious Island (1874), Second Fatherland (1900), and The School for Robinsons (1882).

Author: Jules Verne|Frederick Amadeus Malleson

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Aug 06, 2016

Number of Pages: 256 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1536921181

ISBN-13: 9781536921182