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Michael Strogoflf
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JULES VERNE
Introduction
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' After this I shall travel only in my imagination!" Such was the vow made by an eleven-year-old boy who had just been chastised by his parents for running away to sea. His voyage had been a brief one—the ship after leaving one French port had put in at another not far distant before setting sail for India—but it had been long enough to demonstrate very vividly the great difference between the high adventure of dreams and the stark reahties of life on a three-masted trader. The year was 1839 and the boy was Jules Verne. The vow, made in a moment of contrition and disillusionment, was not, of course, to be hterally kept in every particular. Jules Verne did hve to travel to many distant places, including America; yet his most numerous, most exciting, most strange and
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