The book garnered wide acclaim, and Verne knew that he had finally found his place in the world. After making the acquaintance of editor and publisher Jules Hetzel, who would become Verne’s champion, the author’s literary career truly began, with the 1863 publication of Five Weeks in a Balloon (serialized in Hetzel’s Magazine d’Éducation et de Récréation, as most of his works were). At first he wrote many works for the stage encouraged by his friend, Alexandre Dumas. Verne, born in Nantes, France in 1828, was a prolific writer all his life. No wonder that these novels, written in the mid-nineteenth century, are still in print and are still read avidly by those who desire adventures out of the ordinary. He wrote about space travel, journeying down into the depths of the earth and exploring the deep oceans of the world. However this wasn’t a path trodden by Jules Verne whose works of fiction explode with wild dreamlike imaginative ideas that take the reader away from reality into an exciting fantasy universe. One piece of advice given to budding authors is to write about what you know. David Stuart Davies looks at Jules Verne’s classic adventure, and the many TV, stage and film adaptions of it.
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