Cæsar (Caesar) Cascabel

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Author: Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) Year: 1890 Publisher: Cassell Publishing Company Place: New York Description: iv+373 pages with eighty-one plates including frontispiece. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in the variant mustard cloth with spine and cover lettering in gilt and black pictorial on spine and cover. Translated from the French by A Estoclet. Illustrations by George Roux. (Gallagher, Mistichelli and Van Eerde: A69) First American edition preceding the English edition. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires , a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days . Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly ab

• Binding: Hardcover

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