1898 1st Edtn Red Cartoonage Cover LE SUPERBE ORENOQUE By Jules Verne Illus. George Roux Good Sci-Fi

1898 1st Edition , Red Cartoonage Cover
LE SUPERBE ORENOQUE
Les Voyages Extraordinaires
By Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved. Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.

Illustrated By: George Roux


Format: Hardcover,
Language: French
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: Hetzel, Paris, Paris

Imperial octavo (8vo 8+1⁄4 × 11+1⁄2 210 × 292),Pages 411

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The Mighty Orinoco (French: Le Superbe Orénoque) is a novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), first published in 1898 as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. It tells the story of young Jeanne's journey up the Orinoco River in Venezuela with her protector, Sergeant Martial, in order to find her father, Colonel de Kermor, who disappeared some years before.



SKU: BTETM0002168
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg