Jules Verne - YA?

[phileas fogg]

Did Jules Verne write YA?

I know most people associate him with science fiction but I think he actually wrote YA.

If you compare him with Frank Herbert for instance I think he's writing something much looser than science fiction.

That isn't a criticism. It may actually be why I like him. Twenty Thousand Leagues is his most complex but my preference is Around the World.

My favorite director, Hideaki Anno adapted the former.

 

[Robert Zwilling]

I like to think Jules Verne, and others from that period wrote in a style that was more universal, able to be appreciated by a larger audience. Translations of works can also create different versions. Before 1962 most of 20,000 Leagues translations were considerably different from the original. Supposedly the latest great attempt to make a perfect text translation was in 1998.

 

[ablackenedrose]

I wouldn't really pigeonhole Vern into a specific age demographic - a lot of his work is perfectly enjoyable to a very wide breadth of age ranges without seeming to be specifically aimed at any one of them.

 

[BAYLOR]

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Around the world in 80 Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth

An amazing writer !

In 1989 a decent of Verne fund in safe and unpublished 1863 work by Verne which was rejected by his publisher as too outlandish It was titled
Paris In The 20th Century . It's set in the year 1963 and made some startling predictions . It predicted Fax machines, Automobiles , Subway, elevators, electronic music, long haired fashions , homelessness.

 

[hitmouse]

Did Jules Verne write YA?

I know most people associate him with science fiction but I think he actually wrote YA.

If you compare him with Frank Herbert for instance I think he's writing something much looser than science fiction.

That isn't a criticism. It may actually be why I like him. Twenty Thousand Leagues is his most complex but my preference is Around the World.

My favorite director, Hideaki Anno adapted the former.

YA is really a modern publishing category, aimed at a particular audience. Verne wrote popular, accessible fiction. As far as I am aware these novels were marketed generally, not at YAs specifically.