Show: Biography: Great Inventors and Explorers
Episode Title: Jules Verne
Duration: 46:13
Year: 1995
Release Date: 1995-04-17
Date added to iTunes: Aug 20, 2006
Network: AEN
Episode description: He traveled to the moon, under the sea, and to the center of the earth, all without leaving his desk. His vivid imagination created some of the seminal classic books of science fiction. Jules Verne was truly a man ahead of his time. The nineteenth-century Frenchman created some of the great futuristic works in the history of literature, including From the Earth to the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Here, Biography explores the life and works of the famous "father of science fiction." From his childhood and his early career as a writer of plays and librettos to his rise to fame, the forces that shaped the life and works of the futurist writer are explored in detail. In revealing interviews, authors, editors, and filmmakers examine his remarkable legacy, while his great-grandson shares family stories of his celebrated forefather. Jules Verne is a compelling portrait of one of the most influential fiction writers of all time.
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