Jules Verne

The Pearl of Lima

A Story of True Love

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Produktbeschreibung

Written in classic prose The Pearl of Lima, A Story of True Love is a short romantic novel with a true story-teller's method of recounting tales. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. He was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early 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 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 82
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 134g
• ISBN-13: 9781483703800
• ISBN-10: 1483703800
• Artikelnr.: 40407191

Autorenporträt

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).

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