女人最佳的生育年龄:我要凡尔纳写的书的英文介绍！除了环游世界80天~不用很长~拜托~

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne's idea for his major novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, was perhaps sparked by a note from fellow Hetzel author George Sand in 1865. After reading several of Verne's novels, she wrote "...I have only one regret concerning these stories, which is to have finished them and not to have a dozen more to read...I hope that you will soon take us to the depths of the sea and have your characters navigate in diving vessels that your science and imagination will manage to improve."

It took years for Verne to complete what is probably his most beloved book. In it his characters Professor Pierre Aronnax, his manservant and Canadian harpooner Ned Land join a United States expedition to kill a sea monster that has become a menace to navigation. They attack the creature, but realize too late that the monster is actually a submarine. Thrown into the sea during the battle, Aronnax and his companions become unwilling guests of the ship's owner, the mysterious Captain Nemo. Nemo, a genius of unknown nationality, has cut ties with humankind on the land and lives his life totally aboard his submarine, the Nautilus. He refuses to let his guests return to the land, but takes them on a series of adventures under the sea. These include walking in the sunken city of Atlantis and fighting giant octopi that attack the ship. As time goes on, it becomes apparent that Nemo is waging a war against some nation he holds responsible for the death of his wife and children. When the Nautilus is pulled into the giant Maelstrom whirlpool off of the coast of Norway, Aronnax and his companions escape in a small boat, but the fate of the submarine and Captain Nemo are unknown.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was released in two volumes, the first appearing in 1869 and the second in 1870. Before it was completed, there was a lively exchange between Verne and Hetzel over the nationality of the mysterious Nemo. Verne had originally planned that the Captain would reveal himself as a Pole, avenging himself against the Russians who had killed his wife and taken his children to Siberia where they had died. The readership of Hetzel's magazine included, however, Russians so Verne's publisher insisted Nemo's enemies not be named. Verne unwillingly conceded to this demand, leaving both the nationality of Nemo and his attackers a mystery until a later book.

In 1872 Verne completed the novel that would be the most popular in his own lifetime, Around the World in Eighty Days. The story of the reserved Englishman, Phileas Fogg, who bets his entire fortune that he can travel around the globe in less than eighty days was not only a successful novel, but was produced on several different occasions for the stage during Verne's lifetime. This was something that undoubtedly made Verne, a playwright from his earliest days, very happy.

Mysterious Island, Verne's next major novel, had a rough start. For many years Verne had wanted to write a Robinson Crusoe-type novel about a group of people stranded on an island. His first attempt, Uncle Robinson, was flatly rejected by Hetzel. "Where is the science?" the publisher wrote in the margins, "Drop all those people and begin with new ones!" he added.

Verne's second try pleased Hetzel more. The books starts at the end of the U.S. Civil War when five companions escape from behind confederate lines in a balloon. The trip lasts a lot longer then they expected. They are swept out to sea and after several days land on a remote island dominated by a volcano. A mysterious agent, later revealed to be the dying Captain Nemo, helps them survive (in this book Verne finally reveals the nationality of the Captain, but by this time it has been changed to Indian and his enemies are the English). The volcano finally explodes, destroying the island, but not before the group is rescued.

In the years that followed Verne moved away from scientific novels, but returned in 1886 with the Clipper of the Clouds. In this story the evil genius Robur threatens the world from the Albatross, a flying ship which maintains its altitude through the use of helicopter-type rotors. At the time, the question of whether the future of air travel was with heavier-than-air craft or balloons was being hotly debated. Verne, a supporter of heavier-than-air flight, had intended to promote the idea through this book.

海底二万里是他的代表作, 所以稍长了些. 如觉得上面那段太长,可以试试这个 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne
在 Selective bibliography 一栏中有很多他的作品, 每一本都有简单的介绍, 不很长的.