An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne (translated by Frances Cashel Hoey)

by Jules Verne, JULES VERNE 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA AND MORE, The Complete Works of Jules Verne, The Jules Verne Collection, An Antartic Mystery

Overview

An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields), is an 1897, two-volume novel by Jules Verne and is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane.

Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, in the south Indian Ocean,[1] but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013651166
Publisher:	Granto Classic Books
Publication date:	08/27/2011
Series:	Jules Verne , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	256 KB

About the Author

Jules Gabriel Verne (French pronunciation: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre.[1] He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated individual author in the world, according to Index Translationum.[2] Some of his books have also been made into live-action and animated films and television shows. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction

Date of Birth:

February 8, 1828

Date of Death:

March 24, 1905

Place of Birth:

Nantes, France

Place of Death:

Amiens, France

Education:

Nantes lycée and law studies in Paris