Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea the book from the initial concept is a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish national hero, leader of the uprising against Russia in 1794, with an inscription in Latin: "Finis Poloniae!" ("The end of Poland!"). Margaret Drabble argues that "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" anticipated the ecology movement and shaped the French avant-garde. Theodore L. Thomas in 1961 said that "there is not a single bit of valid speculation" in the novel and that "none of its predictions has come true". He described the depictions of the diving gear, scenes, and the "Nautilus" as "pretty bad, behind the times
Jules Verne bibliography system developed by Pierre-Jules Hetzel for the "Voyages Extraordinaires", each of Verne's novels was published successively in several different formats. This resulted in several distinct editions of each texts, as follows. The posthumously published volumes in the "Voyages Extraordinaires" were extensively altered and in some cases entirely written by Verne's son Michel. Jules Verne bibliography Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Most famous for his novel sequence, the "Voyages Extraordinaires", Verne also wrote assorted short stories, plays, miscellaneous novels, essays, and poetry. His works are notable for their profound influence on science fiction and on surrealism,