Jules Verne is one of the authors who most motivates children when they leave behind stories and they begin in their reading of novels.
In fact, that was the audience to which the works and to a large extent Verne contributed to culturing many generations thanks to his works.
Much of the blame is on the editor Jules hetzel, who saw in Verne a writer capable of connecting with youth and after having read "Five Weeks in a Balloon" contacted the writer to offer him to carry out a didactic program for youth that included the publication of three novels per year, thanks to which “Extraordinary trips” emerge.
Jules Hetzel himself made it clear what he was looking for when hiring Verne for this task that in his own words he ambitiously intended nothing less than "to summarize all the geographical, geological, physical and astronomical knowledge amassed by modern science."
Needless to say, the project seduced a dreamy mind like Verne's from the get-go. In fact, Verne showed more ambition than his publisher and despite having perfectly captured the essence of what was asked of him, he wanted to go a step further by giving the title of the novel series "Journey through the known and unknown worlds."
It is seen that even everything known was a little for him…
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