Paperblanks Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Bookmark

Never lose your place again with this beautifully crafted Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues bookmark from Paperblanks – the perfect companion for a favourite novel or journal, and a delightful little gift.

French novelist, poet and playwright Jules Gabriel Verne (1828–1905) is the author of some of the world’s most famous adventure stories. Through his collaboration with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Verne created the Voyages extraordinaires – a popular series of novels which included Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days.

The Story Behind the Design

Jules Verne, who wrote his stories in his native French, has the distinction of being the second most translated author in history, right between William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. It is perhaps due to the immense popularity and variety of translated interpretations that his work has sometimes been dismissed outside of Europe as “genre fiction” or children’s literature, interesting but light stories not worthy of serious discussion.

In the years since his death at the beginning of the 20th century, scholarly attitudes towards Verne’s work began to shift. This is in large part thanks to the Société Jules Verne, an academic organisation dedicated to studying his work. Also, many of his early admirers (including George Sand and Théophile Gautier) went on to have their own celebrated careers, bringing a greater sense of respectability to his work.

Verne is now remembered as one of the “Fathers of Science Fiction,” standing alongside H.G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. He is credited with being an inspiration for the steampunk genre, a movement championing science fiction based on 19th-century technology. Interestingly, Verne himself never aimed to be a scientific writer. Instead he sought to share the beauty of the real world, saying his goal was to “depict the earth [and] at the same time to realise a very high ideal of beauty of style.”

• Original artwork: An engraving depicting Captain Nemo observing “a squid of colossal dimensions”
• Era: Late 1800s
• Region: France

Product Details

• Dimensions: 40 × 185 × 1 mm
• Design: Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues
• Series: Embellished Manuscripts Collection
• Double-sided design
• Decorative printed paper
• Textured printing
• Rounded edges
• Subtle Paperblanks branding
• Weight: 10 g
• Product code: PA7299-7 | ISBN: 9781439772997

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