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Jules Verne : the definitive biography

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  • "Autobiographies and biographies."@en
  • "A controversial portrait of the nineteenth-century French literary master offers insight into his achievements, creative process, and personal life, from his lovers and enemies to his school studies and reading choices."@en
  • "Jules Verne is a phenomenon: the world's most translated, bestselling writer. With Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days, the Frenchman reshaped global literature. He still dominates the U.S. box office and pervades our life and culture. But behind all the success was a tormented man: a sexual misfit, a plagiarist, and a sad and lonely recluse. Now at last comes an authoritative biography worthy of this controversial figure. William Butcher combines groundbreaking research on Verne's childhood and bohemian decades with the discovery of an unknown contemporary biography and an early volume by Verne. He brilliantly recounts the novelist's money woes and amorous escapades, Scottish ancestry, right-wing connections, court cases, and near-murder. This erudite but highly readable narrative by the leading English-language specialist reveals the man inside the legend."@en

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  • "Biographie"
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  • "Biography"

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  • "Jules Verne : the definitive biography"@en
  • "Jules Verne : the definitive biography"
  • "Jules Verne"

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