Jules Verne

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Publisher Marketing: El transatlantico Great Eastern es un lujoso y gigantesco barco de vapor, de construccion inglesa, pero fletado por franceses, que viaja de Liverpool a Nueva York. Diversos acontecimientos suceden en el barco, entre ellos el que algunos pasajeros creen que un fantasma hacia repentinas apariciones. Entre las actividades emprendidas para entretener a los viajeros, se realiza una carrera por la cubierta, y la disputa por la victoria lleva a enfrentarse a dos caballeros: Fabian Mac Elwin y el bribon Harry Drake. Los companeros de Fabian se dan cuenta de que Drake hacia 10 anos habia contraido matrimonio con la novia de el: la senorita Elena. Las rivalidades continuan y les llevan a un duelo. Justo durante este, se desata una tormenta, y un rayo da muerte a Drake. Al momento que se descubre que Elena esta presente pero ha perdido la razon, y es el "fantasma" que muchos creyeron ver." Contributor Bio:  Verne, Jules Jules Gabriel Verne (French: 8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, Verne was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne is the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare, and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction," as are H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.