As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne feeds into the modern ...

A cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel "The Mysterious Island", the story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern ...

When French author Jules Verne died in 1905, powered air flight, which he put at the center of his 1886 book Robur the ...

Jules Verne, a renowned French writer, captivates audiences with both accurate and inaccurate predictions. How has his work influenced the worlds of science and literature? Jules Verne ...