Eugène Ionesco, quoted in William Butcher, "Preface", in Jules Verne, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), retrieved 30 March 2013

All my texts were written, directly or allusively, to celebrate (Captain Hatteras's) discovery of the North Pole.

— Eugène Ionesco

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Jules Verne

About Jules Verne

Jules Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French writer best known as a pioneering author in science fiction.