jules verne

jules verne

BY:ERIC CARLSON                                                                                                                                                                                           JULES VERNE [titled in Germany] was born in   1828 in the seaport town of Nantes, France.   He was from a family whose father   was a lawyer.   As a boy , Jules sat at the docks listening to sailors' tales of faraway places and imaging himself   exploring unknown worlds.   At a 11 Verne ran-away from his family and home . Jules was   12 when he ran away again, he longed to stow away on a ship bound for sail to India.   But his father pulled Jules off the ship and gave him a severe beating.   However, Jules vowed to continue to travel from then on - but only in his imagination .

Verne began to amaze his friends with his   drawings of machines.   Most of them where   flying machines.   In his teens he was called a real ladies man , he was considered the "cutest."   Also, in his teens he started writing tragic romance plays.   He received no support from his family they just laughed at him.

No Longer encouraged to write , Jules decided; on his father influence, to go to Paris to study law.   In Paris, Verne became friends with Alexander Dumas [the author of Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.]     People believe Jules' cause of going back to writing was Alexander Dumas.   Jules gave up law   and started writing again.   His stories did not sell, worth a   hundredth of a franc.  

Jules married a young widow   with two children.   He got a job in stock exchange in Paris to support his family. Because of his job he needed to wake up a " little early." around five o' clock A.M. , so he had no time to   write a book.

Jules wrote a new book about balloon trips with no name.   Every editor who saw it turned him down.   One day Verne threw it into the fire.   His wife rescued the manuscript ,     replaced the charred cover ,   and persuaded him to offer it one more time....