Jules Verne

An Antarctic Mystery Jules Verne

An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, 'The Sphinx of the Ice Fields'), is an 1897 adventure novel by Jules Verne and is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Poe's telling of Arthur Pym's narrative is shown to be true as events come together that bring out clues that help Captain Len Guy trace the fate of his brother's ship the Jane; the very ship that Arthur Pym was on board at the time of his disappearance. Through the efforts of a Mr. Joerling, the crew of the Halbrane is enticed to make the trip to Antarctica to search for any survivors of the Jane... Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828-March 24, 1905) was a French authorwho pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such asJourney To The Center Of The Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues UnderThe Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote aboutspace, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines wereinvented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is thethird most translated author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Someof his books have been made into films. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".