A Floating City / The Blockade Runners
by Jules Verne
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The Blockade Runners (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages). An English translation was published in 1874. The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton show more and, later in the book, to rescue Halliburtt, the abolitionist journalist father of a young girl held prisoner (the father, not the girl) by the Confederates. Verne's tale was inspired by reality as many ships were actually lost while acting as blockade runners in and around Charleston in the early 1860s. show lessTags
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Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828 in Nantes, France. He wrote for the theater and worked briefly as a stockbroker. He is considered by many to be the father of science fiction. His most popular novels included Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Several of his works show more have been adapted into movies and TV mini-series. In 1892, he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in France. He died on March 24, 1905 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) Jules Verne (1828-1905) is the author of numerous adventure stories grounded in popularizations of science. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- A Floating City / The Blockade Runners
- Original title
- Une ville flottante / Les forceurs de blocus
- Original language*
- Französisch
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- 899.9 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of non-Austronesian languages of Oceania, of Austronesian languages, of miscellaneous languages Literature of Basque, Summerian, Elamite, Etruscan, Caucausian and Artificial languages
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- PQ2469 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 19th century
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