{"product_id":"paperblanks-verne-twenty-thousand-leagues-midi-hardback-journal-lined-144-pages-pb6492-3","title":"Paperblanks Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Midi Hardback Journal – Lined, 144 Pages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCapture your ideas, plans and memories in this Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues midi hardback journal from Paperblanks, with 144 lined pages of 120 gsm acid-free paper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJules Verne (1828–1905) is the author of some of the world’s most famous books. This Embellished Manuscript in oceanic blue features a page from Verne’s handwritten draft of \u003cem\u003eTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.\u003c\/em\u003e The back cover shows an engraving depicting Captain Nemo observing “a squid of colossal dimensions.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Story Behind the Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench 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 \u003cem\u003eVoyages extraordinaires\u003c\/em\u003e – a popular series of novels which included \u003cem\u003eTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAround the World in Eighty Days.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, these two works stand as pillars of the science fiction genre. In fact, when developing our Jules Verne Embellished Manuscript we simply could not choose between the two – which is why we offer two unique Jules Verne titles!\u003cp\u003eDiscover Verne, Around the World here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJules 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eSociété Jules Verne,\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVerne 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur oceanic blue Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues design features Verne’s handwritten draft of \u003cem\u003eTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.\u003c\/em\u003e The back of the journal features an engraving depicting Captain Nemo observing “a squid of colossal dimensions.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1870 with the full title \u003cem\u003eTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World,\u003c\/em\u003e the book’s popularity and acclaim has never waned since its first release. Captain Nemo’s ship is considered especially memorable for being so ahead of its time in terms of its description of a submarine, which at the time was a very primitive vehicle. We hope the words of one of the most popular authors in history will inspire you to take your own writing to new depths. 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