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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060815
Author:Renee Tursi
JULES VERNE
The Definitive Biography
By William Butcher
Thunder's Mouth Press. 369 pp. $28
Avoyager of the imagination, French novelist Jules Verne (1828- 1905) found himself vexingly tethered to one genre. Driven by his publisher's commercial interests, he produced two or three books a year of scientific fantasy and adventure aimed at young readers.
Classics such as "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1869) and "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1872) continue to make him one of the most translated and recognized writers. Yet a decade before his ...
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