JULES VERNE
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.
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 the life to write for magazines and the stage. His
collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the
Voyages Extraudinaries, a widely popular
series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the
Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the
World in eighty Days.
Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most
of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-grade and on
surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where
he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction of children’s books, not
least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his
novels are often reprinted.
Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since
1979, between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William
Shakespeare, and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s.
He is one of the authors sometimes called “The Father of Science Fiction”, as
are H.G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
1.Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the
text. No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE.
a) Jules Gabriel Verne was an English novelist.
b) Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth.
2.In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the
following questions. Do not copy from the text.
a) Why is he best known for his adventure novels?
b) Why is Verne generally considered a major
literary author in the most of Europe?
3.Find the words in the text that mean.
a) Stories (paragraph 1):
b) Dad (paragraph 2):
c) Kids (paragraph 3):
d) Possibly (paragraph 4):
i like this text because is about Jules Verne. This novelist write books very interesting.The questions are easy and the text is a little long
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ReplyDeletethe text is to long, but the cuestions are easy.
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ReplyDeleteHello I think this text wasn´t bad, but I think there also more interesting texts.
ReplyDeleteI love Jules Verne but his histories not him live. But sorry to repeat this but there are more interesting things to have an exposition in english. Lucía I think you can tell us this history in lenguaje not in english. But you have to do a text and you did it, that is fine you can choose the text that you want.
Lucia, if you like Jules Verne, it's your problem.
ReplyDeleteThis man is famous, but how? I not support it books, and no one,
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I think it is a good text, but it is a little long and the questions are too easy. The topic is very interesting. I have read a book of Julio Verne and I'll read more
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