The story of Jules Verne + themes

Contrary to popular belief (in America, at least), Jules Verne was neither a scientist, nor an inventor, nor a geographer. He was a writer. During the 1850s, Verne was an aspiring young dramatist with a degree in law, a passionate love for literature, and a job at the Paris stock market. He began his professional writing career by penning short articles on scientific and historical to../pics for the lucrative journal Musée des Familles in order to supplement his meager income. Verne culled the facts he needed for these articles from long sessions in the Bibliothèque Nationale poring over various reference books, scientific magazines, and newspapers. In so doing, the young author came to envision the possibility of incorporating all this documentation into a new and innovative type of novel whose narrative format would simultaneously blend fiction with fact, adventure with didacticism, and literary motifs with scientific data. Some ten years later in 1863 (following his publisher Hetz...