As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne feeds into the modern ...

The purpose of this essay is to describe the development of French science fiction in the 19th century before Jules Verne. 1 It will not be confined ... imitated or transposed semiotic models — all ...

George Roux (1850–1929) was a French artist renowned for his illustrations of Jules Verne ... drawings that brought Verne’s fantastical worlds to life. Roux's illustrations played a crucial role in ...