SCIENCE FICITION SOTIRES

Vikas Khatri

Description

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it,” said C.S. Lewis, one of the greatest English writers of the medieval period. This book is a part of a set of ten books of the Greatest Classic Series containing amazing and fascinating stories of scientific wonder that will arouse your imaginative mind compelling you to go through all the stories written by world acclaimed authors, such as Jules Verne, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Jack London, O. Henry and many more.

Actually, the entire classic series has been aimed to enrich the young minds with the wonderful assets of English language and literature and to develop their interest in understanding the language, inculcating in them the reading habits, particularly among the school- going children in the age group of 12 to 18 years studying in higher classes from standard seven to twelve. The Science Fictions in this book are partly imaginative and partly real giving vent to the author''s logical and creative skills.

This book contains an introductory page exclusively about the author, his brief life sketch, notable works and achievements along with word meanings of difficult words on each page marked and highlighted in the text for the students'' convenience and easy understanding of the story. There is also an Exercise part after each story titled as ''An Understanding'' containing four or five Questions which the reader/student has to answer making the book all the more interesting and reader-friendly.

Therefore, these books are a must read for all the students, irrespective of their age, education and social background. Even the teachers may find it interesting and can recommend the books for the senior classes as supplementary reading.

Informations

• Publié par: V & S Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9789352151745
• Langue: English

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Publisher’s Note

It has been our constant endeavour at the V&S Publishers to publish all kinds of books ranging from Fiction, Non-fiction, Storybooks, Children Encyclopaedias, to Self-Help, Science Books, Dictionaries, Grammar Books, Self-Development, Management Books, etc.
However, this is for the first time that we are venturing into the vast, rich and fathomless ocean of English Literature and have come up with a set of ten storybooks called the Greatest Classic Series authored by some of the greatest and eminent writers of the world. There is a lot to learn from their writing style, selection of plot, development and building of theme and suspense of the story, emphasis and presentation of characters, dialogues, working towards the climax of the story, presenting the climax, and then finally concluding the story.
Each these books are of about 200 pages containing around ten popular stories or more of renowned authors like Oscar Wilde, Ernest William Hornung, Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, Saki, Washington Irving, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Jack London, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, H.G.Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Edith Wharton, Wilkie Collins and many more. The series is called The Greatest Classic Series as all the names of the books begin with the word, `Greatest’ like the Greatest Adventurous Stories, Greatest Detective Stories, Greatest Love Stories, Greatest Ghost Stories, and so on. Besides this, three of the ten books are exclusively on the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, one of the best detectives the world has ever known written by none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Besides the above mentioned characteristics, the books contain an introductory page before each story introducing the author, his brief life history, notable works and literary achievements. Each story has a set of word meanings on each page followed by an exercise meant exclusively aiming the school students to help them grasp the essence of the story easily and quickly.
These books are not only a boon for the school-going students, particularly studying in senior classes from the seventh standard till the twelfth, but are also a treasure trove for all those young and aspiring writers, voracious readers and lovers of English language and literature.
Each of these ten books focus on a theme, such as adventure, love, terror, humour, or supernatural happenings, and are so captivating and real to life that readers may find it difficult to choose from them and so it's better to pick the entire series.
Wishing you all a happy and enjoyable reading...
Contents
Publisher’s Note Jules Verne The Day of an American Journalist in 2889 Tobermory ‘Ministers of Grace’ The Vampyre Manuscript Found in a Bottle The Enemy of All the World The Mummy’s Foot The Terror of Blue John Gap The Haunted House One Of Twins Moxon’s Master
Jules Verne

Born on February 8, 1828
Died on March 24, 1905
Notable Works: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island, Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen, etc.
Genres: Science fiction
Early Life
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author, who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1 870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated author in the world (after Agatha Christie). Some of his books have also been made into live-action and animated films and television shows. Verne is often referred to as the “Father of Science Fiction”, a title sometimes shared with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells.
Jules Verne was born in Nantes, in France, to Pierre Verne, an attorney, and his wife, Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe. Jules spent his early years at home with his parents in the bustling harbour city of Nantes. The family spent the summers in a country house, just outside the city, in Brains on the banks of the Loire River. At the boarding school, Verne studied Latin, which he used in his short story, “Le Mariage de Monsieur Anselme des Tilleuls” in the mid 1850s.
Literary Works and Achievements
After completing his studies at the lycée, Verne went to Paris to study law. Around 1848, in conjunction with Michel Carré, he began writing libretti for operettas, five of them for his friend the composer, Aristide Hignard, who also set Verne’s poems as chansons. For some years, his attentions were divided between the theatre and work, but some travellers’ stories which he wrote for the Musée des familles revealed to him his true talent. When Verne’s father discovered that his son was writing rather than studying law, he promptly withdrew his financial support.
It was Jules Verne himself who confirmed once having travelled from Stockholm, Sweden, to Christiania during 1862. Consequently, Swedish publication of Jules Verne began during the very next year. En luftballongsresa genom Afrika (A Hot Air Balloon trip through Africa), translated into Swedish, actually is dated 1863 – making it the very first dated Jules Verne full-length book on record.
Verne’s situation improved when he met Pierre-Jules Hetzel, one of the more important French publishers of the 19th century. From that point, Verne published two or more volumes a year. The most successful of these include Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth, (1864); De la Terre a la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865); Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 1869); and Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days), which first appeared in Le Temps in 1872. The series is collectively known as “Voyages Extraordinaires” (“extraordinary voyages”).
Verne could now live on his writings. But most of his wealth came from the stage adaptations of Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1874) and Michel Strogoff (1876), which he wrote with Adolphe d’Ennery. In 1867, Verne bought a small ship, the Saint-Michel, which he successively replaced with the Saint-Michel II and the Saint-Michel III as his financial situation improved. In 1863, Jules Verne wrote a novel called Paris in the Twentieth Century.
Later Years
On March 9, 1886, as Verne was coming home, his twenty-five-year-old nephew, Gaston, shot him with a gun. One bullet missed, but the second entered Verne’s left leg, giving him a limp that would not be cured. The incident was hushed up by the media, and Gaston spent the rest of his life in an asylum.
After the deaths of Hetzel and his beloved mother Sophie Henriette Allotte de la Fruye in 1887, Jules began writing darker works. In 1888, Jules Verne entered politics and was elected the town councillor of Amiens, where he championed several improvements and served for 15 years. In 1905, while ill with diabetes, Verne died at his home.
Trivia
A restaurant built into the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France is named Le Jules Verne.
The Day of an American Journalist in 2889 —Jules Verne
TH e men of the twenty-ninth century live in a perpetual fairyland, though they do not seem to realise it. Bored with wonders, they are cold towards everything that progress brings them every day. It all seems only natural.
If they compared it with the past, they would better appreciate what our civilisation is, and