Are there any Jules Verne books which doesn't give the plot away completely in the title.

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In Around The World In 80 Days - they go around the world in 80 days.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea involves going 20,000 leagues under the sea.

Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - guess where they go. From The Earth To The Moon couldn't be more self explanatory.

So Tell me, was Verne - as well as being the Father Of Science Fiction - the most literal of titlers.

― Pete, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Apologies for tensual erors in the thread title, I changed my mind about the question and left the doesn't where a do not should go.

― Pete, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you know he was working on a book called "my unfinished novel" shortly before he died?

― jel --, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

JEL, I don't get it.

― nathalie, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In Master of the World a geezer becomes Master of the World.

Good to see this classic qn finally get an outing!

― Tom, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's "Haha go on guess why don't you, french reading-public fools"

― mark s, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"the genius jel" is a personal favourite.

― jel --, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahem, doesn't SF have a Mother instead of a Father (Aldiss on M.Shelley)?

This is from Verne's The Dutch Adventures of a Pedantic Mr. Know- It-All ;)

― Omar, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't they manage to go round the world in 79 days? And is The Mysterious Island still a mystery by the end of the book?

― Richard Jones, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jules verne invented the winky man!!

― mark s, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They actually go around the world in just over eighty days (they think failing), and then realise the next day that cos of the International Date Line and all that, they made an extra day up so still win the bet.

Mysterious Island is still a mystery to me, I've not read it. Mary Shelly and Jules Cerne sitting in a tree - K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

― Pete, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

new prog thread

― dave q, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the whole point is the international dateline hadn't been invented yet then, which is why they were a day ahead of everyone else.

most Jules Verne books are primarily a string of jokes about foreigners (i.e. not French people) with some half-arsed SF plot holding the whole thing together.

― DV, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good for him! I hate stupid symbolic titles that make books sound good when they're not.

― Maria, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

actually in From the Earth to the Moon they don't even reach the moon, you have to read the sequel for that. false advertising?

― Justyn Dillingham, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Herge to thread!

― Tom, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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