Michel also is eventually fired from his job at the bank—for inadvertently spilling ink onto The Big Book ... 8. Jules Verne, "In the Twenty-ninth Century. The Day of an American Journalist in 2889," ...

Jules Verne has lost none of his inventiveness, notwithstanding the demands made upon him during the past 10 years; he is just as amusing and just as absurd. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

When French author Jules Verne died in 1905, powered air flight, which he put at the center of his 1886 book Robur the ...