Jules Verne was an author ahead of his time. He had many great accomplishments as an author throughout his lifetime. He wrote about adventure, technology, and the future. It was like he was able to predict thing that would eventually be invented in the future (Famous Authors). Jules Verne was a very successful author who wrote about many futuristic things.
Jules Verne was an adventurer whose writing seemed to be a little ahead of its time. He was born in1828 and he grew up in Nantes, France. Jules was the oldest of four children and had good parents. He and his family lived in port city, so Jules spent a lot of his time watching ships as he was growing up. Watching those made him want to travel and explore. He attended a boarding school as a boy and that’s when he started to write poems and short stories. When Jules grew up he went to Paris, France to start college (Famous Authors).
Jules went to school for law, because his father wanted him to follow in his footsteps. Jules went to make his father happy, but he didn’t seem all that interested in studying law. Not long after being at school, he stopped studying law and decided to start writing plays. Jules was more interested in theater than law, which led him to start his career as an author. In 1857, Jules married a widow and they later had only one kid (The UnMuseum). Jules liked adventure and liked to sail. Jules worked at a stock market, but in his spare time he liked to just travel and wright. He and his wife had a ship that they spent a lot of time on, creating new adventures (Famous Authors).He wanted to put parts of his life and his thoughts into something that other could see, so he started writing. Jules started out as a playwright, and then went on to wright bigger w...
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...ue detective novel, “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and starting the detective genre. Along with the detective genre, he is recognized for starting the science fiction genre and influencing authors like Jules Verne. Lastly, his works had an effect on the creation of popular horror movies such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street.
Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20th 1978. Sinclair grew up in a broken household; his father was an alcohol salesman and killed himself drinking. While his mother would not even think about drinking alcohol. So these personalities naturally clashed. So Sinclair found some solace in books, Sinclair was a natural writer and he began publishing at the young age of fifteen years old. Sinclair started off going to school at a small college by the name of New York City College. This was just temporary as Sinclair would need time and money to move higher up to a form of better education. So as a result Sinclair took the initiative and he started writing columns on ethnic jokes and hack fiction for small magazines in New York. The money he earned writing these columns allowed him to completely pay for New York City College, and eventually enroll to attend Columbia University. Sinclair worked as hard as he possibly could to get into Columbia University and he was going to do the absolute best he could while he was attending the University. Since Sinclair needed ex...
John Steinbeck was perhaps the best author of all time. He was the winner of a Nobel Prize, and among other accomplishments, Steinbeck published nineteen novels and made many movies during his lifetime. All of his experience and knowledge are shown through his novels. A reader can tell, just in reading a novel by Steinbeck, that he had been through a lot throughout his life. Also, Steinbeck worked very hard to accomplish everything that he did during his lifetime. Nothing came very easily to him, and he had to earn everything he owned. This helped him in his writing, because he was able to write about real people and real experiences. John Steinbeck got his inspiration from life experiences, people he knew, and places he had gone.
Henry James confronted the Old World-New World huddle by writing directly about it. Although born in New York City, he spent most of his adult years in England. Many of his novels center on Americans who live in or travel to Europe. With its intricate, highly qualified sentences and dissection of emotional and psychological nuance, James's fiction can be daunting. Among his more accessible works are the novellas Daisy Miller, about an enchanting American girl in Europe, and The Turn of the Screw, an enigmatic ghost story.
...uch when he was alive and write many novels and other books in his lifetime. Many of his books he published were or still are at the top of the list of what to read in today's world. John Steinbeck really made an impact on literature in which we see today.
He didn't have a very exciting life when he was younger but he did grow up sailing on short trips on the English coast. Since a young age he knew he wanted to be on the water. When he was older he sailed on countless voyages.
Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria. He was the second son to Lucien and Catherine Camus. Camus suffered from Tuberculosis and he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle. There his uncle, Gustave, was able to educate him and add drive of curiosity to his nephew. As his writing career be gain to grow Camus moved to France in 1938. Where he in 1942 at the age of 29 Camus he wrote his famous book, The Stranger. Connections between the protagonist, Meursault, and Camus can be seen because of small similar details between both of the main characters and authors lives.
From an extremely young age most knew Joyce had a gift for writing and a passion for literature. Joyce also taught himself Italian and Norwegian, and knew seventeen languages in total. His intelligence was exceeding through such a very young age. During this time Joyce was greatly educated by Jesuits. Because his parents never wanting him to end up like them, he was pushed to follow his passion in writing. Joyce attended school...
Before Paul started his career as a neurosurgeon, he was extremely passionate about literature and was determined to become a writer. At a young age, his parents inspired him to develop his interest in literature. After graduating from high
When he was growing up he spent much time in the Carnegie. He read books from many authors but he said his favorites were H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. When he was in his later teens he read st...
Verne expresses the stereotypical Englishmen, the seeker of adventure, popular in his time. Almost jokingly does Verne come to this conclusion, he being a Frenchman, in which all Englishmen will go to the corners of the Earth to find an area to “Europeanize”, find a wild beast to market from, or a project to throw their pounds at.
When Rene was around 10 years old on 1609 he joined the Jesuit College in La Fleche and remained there till 1614. He had five to six years of grammar school which involved Latin and Greek grammar, and for his final three years left he took mathematics courses. After leaving Jesuit College, he studied at the University of Poitiers on 1616. He graduated and he earned a bachelorette degree of law to follow his father’s wishes on becoming a lawyer like him. Everyone is his family wanted him to become a lawyer but he never decided on practicing law.
Jules Verne’s science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea delivers profound insight into historical events which influenced the work. Through Verne’s descriptive style, one is able to ascertain various political and foreign policy aspects that involved France during the time the novel was written. In addition, worldly issues and struggles can be accurately assessed. Due to Verne’s “detail and determination to explore questions of liberty and authority,” it is evident that he largely incorporates personal opinion and ideas into his works (“Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” Literature and Its Times). Verne also integrates Victorian Era interest such as technology and science. Although many facets of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea seem relatively impractical, they represent ongoing advancement during the time, set a precedent for future developments or are derived from previous inventions. Regardless of how the novel is perceived, it has contributed a plethora of lasting impacts to the world.
After studying logic, rhetoric, musical arts, and astronomy he moved onto the University of Poitiers, where he worked on his baccalaureate in law for the next four years. His father planned on his prestigious son to become a lawyer and make it into politics just like him. Although, during his school years he had several influential teachers in his logic and mathematics classes. Soon after he declared he didn’t want to learn from anything except from himself or “the great book of the world” which he had written in Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences. After obtaining his degree, men back in those days, had to either join the church or the army. Rene joined the army and saw a few battles as a nobleman. While in the army there were geometrical problems given to the world which at that time was like trying to divide pi by itself over 1 or something to that effect. Well he could solve these impossible equations within a few hours, and after realizing his mathematical genius he decided being in the army was beneath him, but he stayed for a while longer to app...
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London about 1340. Although many facts about his life are unknown, it is evident in his writing that Chaucer was a very educated man. After many years of being employed by English nobles, Chaucer began to travel to many different parts of Europe. While on these trips, Chaucer discovered the works...