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Doctor Ox
''Doctor Ox'' (french: Le Docteur Ox) is a collection of short stories by Jules Verne, first published in 1874 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel. It consists of four varied works by Verne: *" Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox" ("Dr. Ox's Experiment," 1872), illustrated by Lorenz Froelich *" Maître Zacharius" ("Master Zacharius," 1854), illustrated by Théophile Schuler *" Un drame dans les airs" ("A Drama in the Air," 1851), illustrated by Émile-Antoine Bayard *" Un hivernage dans les glaces" ("A Winter Amid the Ice," 1855), illustrated by Adrien Marie and Barbant The collection also includes a preface by Pierre-Jules Hetzel Pierre-Jules Hetzel (15 January 1814 – 17 March 1886) was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne's novels, highly prized by collectors today. Biography Born in Ch ... and a story, "Quarantième ascension au mont Blanc" ("Fortieth Ascent of Mont Blanc"), written by Verne's brother Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraordinaires'', a series of bestselling adventure novels including ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1864), ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (1870), and '' Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théophile Schuler
Jules Théophile Schuler (18 June 1821 – 26 January 1878) was a French painter and illustrator in the Romantic style. He gave his name to an art award established in 1938. Life The son of a pastor, he studied painting in his hometown, intaglio printmaking in Karlsruhe and finally took further lessons in the studios of Michel Martin Drolling and Paul Delaroche in Paris between 1839 and 1843. After 1848, he settled in Strasbourg where he painted, illustrated and gave drawing courses. From 1859 onwards, he collaborated with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, for whom he illustrated works by Verne (''Master Zacharius''), Hugo (''Les Châtiments'') and Erckmann-Chatrian, but also an alphabet for children, to which a letter "W" was added when it appeared in an American edition as ''Letters Everywhere: Stories And Rhymes For Children'', and the children's classic ''Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates''. Schuler's masterpiece is the monumental oil on canvas painting ''The Chariot o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1874 Books
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George Makepeace Towle
George Makepeace Towle (August 27, 1841, Washington, D.C. – August 9, 1893, Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer, politician, and author. He is best known for his translations of Jules Verne' s works, in particular his 1873 translation of ''Around the World in Eighty Days''. Life Towle graduated in arts from Yale University in 1861 and in law from the Harvard Law School in 1863, and practised in Boston in 1863–65. He was United States consul at Nantes, France, in 1866–68, and in the latter year was transferred to the consulate at Bradford, England, where he remained until his return to Boston in 1870. One of his many prominent friends was Charles Dickens, to whose periodical, ''All the Year Round'', he contributed several articles on American affairs. Towle became president of the Papyrus club in 1880, and was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1888. He was managing editor of the Boston ''Commercial Bulletin'' in 1870–71, and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Yon
Edmond is a given name related to Edmund. Persons named Edmond include: * Edmond Canaple (1797–1876), French politician * Edmond Chehade (born 1993), Lebanese footballer * Edmond Conn (1914–1998), American farmer, businessman, and politician * Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1892), French writer * Edmond Etling (before 1909–1940), French designer, manufacturer * Edmond Halley (1656–1742), English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist * Edmond Haxhinasto (born 1966), Albanian politician * Edmond Maire (1931–2017), French labor union leader * Edmond Rostand * Edmond James de Rothschild * Edmond O'Brien * Edmond Panariti * Edmond Robinson * Edmond Tarverdyan, controversial figure in MMA In fiction * Edmond Dantès, The main character in ' The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas. * Edmond Elephant, a character from Peppa Pig * Edmond Honda, a character from the ''Street Fighter'' series * Edmond, a character from Rock-A-Doodle * E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Marie
Adrien is a given name and surname, and the French spelling for the name Adrian. It is also the masculine form of the feminine name Adrienne. It may refer to: People Given name * Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), French astronomer * Adrien Baillet (1649–1706), French scholar and critic * Adrien Brody (born 1973), American actor * Adrien Broom, American photographer * Adrien, Count of Rougé (1782–1838), French statesman * Adrien de Wignacourt (1618–1697), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller * Adrien Douady (1935–2006), French mathematician * Adrien Duvillard (alpine skier born 1969), French Olympic alpine skier * Adrien Manglard (1695–1760), French painter * Adrien Perruchon (born 1983), French conductor * Adrien Rabiot (born 1995), French soccer player * Adrien Robinson (born 1988), American football player * Adrien Silva (born 1989), Portuguese-French footballer * Adrien Tremblay (2000–today), French-Canadian normal man * Adrien Voisin (1890–1979) American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Drame Dans Les Airs
"A Drama in the Air" (french: "'Un drame dans les airs'") is an adventure short story by Jules Verne. The story was first published in August 1851 under the title "Science for families. A Voyage in a Balloon" ("La science en famille. Un voyage en ballon") in ''Musée des familles'' with five illustrations by Alexandre de Bar. In 1874, with six illustrations by Émile-Antoine Bayard, it was included in ''Doctor Ox'', the only collection of Jules Verne's short stories published during Verne's lifetime. An English translation by Anne T. Wilbur, published in May 1852 in '' Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature'', marked the first time a work by Jules Verne was translated into the English language. Plot outline Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a stranger jumps into its car. The unexpected passenger's only intent is to take the balloon as high as it will go, even at the cost of his and pilot's life. The intruder takes advantage of the long journey to recount th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maître Zacharius
Master Zacharius, or the clockmaker who lost his soul (french: Maître Zacharius ou l'horloger qui avait perdu son âme, tradition genevoise) is an 1854 short story by Jules Verne. The story, an intensely Romantic fantasy echoing the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann, is a Faustian tragedy about an inventor whose overpowering pride leads to his downfall. Plot On a small island in the middle of the Rhone within the town of Geneva, the clockmaker Master Zacharius lives with his daughter Gérande, his apprentice Aubert Thun, and his elderly servant Scholastique. Zacharius is celebrated throughout France and Germany for having invented the escapement, and is fiercely proud of his successes. When the story opens, he is troubled by an inexplicable mystery: for several days, all of the many clocks he has made and sold have begun to suddenly stop, one by one. Unable to fix any of them or to find a reason for the phenomenon, Zacharius falls into mental torment and becomes seriously ill. Gér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenz Froelich
Lorenz is an originally German name derived from the Roman surname Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum". Given name People with the given name Lorenz include: * Prince Lorenz of Belgium (born 1955), member of the Belgian royal family by his marriage with Princess Astrid of Belgium * Lorenz Böhler (1885–1973), Austrian trauma surgeon * Lorenz Hart (1895–1943), American lyricist, half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart * Lorenz Lange (1690–1752), Russian official in Siberia * Lorenz Oken (1779–1851), German naturalist * Lorenz of Werle (1338/40–1393/94), Lord of Werle-Güstrow Surname People with the name surname Lorenz include: * Adolf Lorenz (1854–1946), Austrian surgeon * Alfred Lorenz (1868–1939), Austrian-German musical analyst * Angela Lorenz (born 1965), American artist * Barbara Lorenz, make-up artist * Carl Lorenz (1913–1993), German cyclist * Christian Lorenz (born 1966), German musician * Edward Norton Lorenz (1917†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Une Fantaisie Du Docteur Ox
Dr. Ox's Experiment (french: Une fantaisie du docteur Ox, "A Fantasy of Doctor Ox") is a humorous science fiction short story by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1872.A Fantasy of Dr Ox, Jules Verne, trans. Andrew Browne, Hesperus Press, 2003Jules Verne, Le Docteur Ox'. Re-edited by J. Hetzel, 1920.Pierre Schoentjes (2000): "Rhétorique de l'argumentation et rhétorique de la fiction dans ''Une fantaisie du docteur Ox''". in ''Récits de la pensée : études sur le roman et l'essai'', edited by Philippe Gilles. Sédès, Paris.Volker Dehs (2015): "L'Abécédaire du ''Docteur Ox''". ''Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne'' volume 188, pages 34-67.Pierre-André Touttain (1978): "Une cruelle fantaisie : Le Docteur Ox". ''Revue des Lettres Modernes. Jules Verne 2 : l'écriture vernienne''. Minard. Paris. It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox, and is inspired by the real or alleged effects of oxygen on living things. Plot The setting of the story is the imaginary villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
