what books did jules verne wright?
Off on a Comet Five Weeks in a Balloon Gil Braltar Paris in the Twentieth Century The Child of the Cavern Tribulations of a Chinaman in China The Mysterious Island The Adventures of Captain Hatteras Facing the Flag The Begum's Fortune
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 An indirect effect of the success of the show was the career of James Michener . His one percent of the show as author of the source material , plus the income from a share which the duo allowed him to buy on credit , made him financially independent and allowed him to quit his job as an editor at Macmillan and to become a full @-@ time writer . Over the next five decades , his lengthy , detailed novels centering on different places would dominate the bestseller lists . 

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 Originally published in serial form during the winter of 1834 / 35 , Le Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac 's most important novel . It marks the first serious use by the author of characters who had appeared in other books , a technique that distinguishes Balzac 's fiction . The novel is also noted as an example of his realist style , using minute details to create character and subtext . 

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 By January 1831 Balzac had generated enough interest in his idea to secure a contract with publishers Charles Gosselin and Urbain Canel . They agreed on 750 copies of an octavo edition , with a fee of 1 @,@ 125 francs paid to the author upon receipt of the manuscript – by mid @-@ February . Balzac delivered the novel in July . 

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 By the time the novel was published in March 1829 , Balzac had changed its title ( in response to complaints from Mme. de Pommereul ) to Le dernier Chouan ou La Bretagne en 1800 , and signed the novel " M. Honoré Balzac " . It was the first book he published without a pseudonym . 

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 He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle , written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle . After moving to England for the family business in 1815 , he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon , Gent. in 1819 – 20 . He continued to publish regularly — and almost always successfully — throughout his life , and just eight months before his death ( at age 76 , in Tarrytown , New York ) , completed a five @-@ volume biography of George Washington . 
