During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne
(1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his
own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann
Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson and Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of
Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Arthur Gordon Pym (1845) was only
one of many Poe stories which Verne admired; no other single author
had more impact on his writing. Verne acknowledged this debt in his
only major piece of literary criticism, a detailed 1864 article
entitled Edgard sic] Poe and his work.Poe (1809-1849) was just
emerging on the French literary scene in translation as Verne was
writing his first plays and short stories. Verne was familiar with
a broad range of Poe's works, the well-remembered stories as well
as many that are obscure today. What is to be admired in Poe, Verne
wrote, are the novelties of his situations, the discussion of
little-known facts, the observations of the unhealthy faculties of
Mankind, the choice of subject-matter, the ever-strange personality
of his characters, their nervous, sickly temperaments, their ways
of expressing themselves by bizarre interjections. that grips the
credulity of the reader.
General
| Imprint: |
Wildside Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2005 |
| First published: |
December 2005 |
| Authors: |
Jules Verne
|
| Introduction by: |
Brian Taves
|
| Translators: |
Cashel Hoey
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-55742-345-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-55742-345-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781557423450 |
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