AboutJean-Michel Margot Expertise I answer any question about JULES VERNE, the French novelist (1828-1905). As worldwide recognized JULES VERNE specialist, I`m able to answer any question about his life and his works, among them the most appreciated in the United States is Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. Other well known titles are: Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Five Weeks in a Balloon, Michael Strogoff, Mysterious Island.
Experience Collecting, reading and publishing. I own the most comprehensive reference material collection about JULES VERNE in America.
Organizations Societe Jules Verne, Paris (France)
Centre de Documentation Jules Verne, Amiens (France)
Club Jules Verne, Pazin (Croatia)
North American Jules Verne Society
Jules Verne Genotschaap (Netherlands)
Publications My publications are referenced in almost all modern and contemporary books by and about Jules Verne.
Education/Credentials Swiss maturity in Latin and Greek
Master in Geology of the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland)
Question Hi, I need to do a Comparitive Essay comparing Mysterious Island and Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I need to compare styles of writing, themes, and a Literary Criticism. I do not know where to start can u help me?
Answer The two best (and recent) translations of these Jules Verne novels have both a very good critical apparatus which could help you to write your essay:
1. Mysterious Island, Wesleyan University Press, transl. by Sydney Kravitz
2. Center of the Earth, Oxford University Press, transl. by Bill Butcher.
