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Lighthouse
by Jules Verne
Description:
Jules Verne Is Seen At His Simplest And Best. No Antecedent Improbability Here Has To Be Made Good. The Remoteness Of The Scene Where The Drama Is Laid Supplies An Element Of Dread Of Which Advantage Is Skillfully Taken, And The Shortness Of The Period Over Which The Story Is Extended Adds Excitement To The Race Against Time Which The Villains Of The Piece Are Compelled To Make In Their Attempt To Escape Justice. The Rest Is Pure Action, Courage And Resourcefulness Pitted Against Ferocity And Power Of Numbers, With No Merely Invented Complications To Retard The Issue. As A Simple Adventure Story The Lighthouse At The End Of The World Must Be Declared A Little Masterpiece
About The Author
Jules Gabriel Verne; (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father’s footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children’s books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.
Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the “Father of Science Fiction”, a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
Skryf Review
Amazing read .The Lighthouse,” some of the remaining Ramsays and other guests return to their summer home ten years after the events. Mr. Ramsay finally plans on taking the long-delayed trip to the lighthouse with daughter Cam and son James.The trip almost does not happen, as the children are not ready, but they eventually set off. As they travel, the children are silent in protest at their father for forcing them to come along. However, James keeps the sailing boat steady and rather than receiving the harsh words he has come to expect from his father, he hears praise, providing a rare moment of empathy between father and son; Cam’s attitude towards her father changes also, from resentment to eventual admiration.They are accompanied by the sailor Macalister and his son, who catches fish during the trip. The son cuts a piece of flesh from a fish he has caught to use for bait, throwing the injured fish back into the sea.While they set sail for the lighthouse, Lily attempts to finally complete the painting she has held in her mind since the start of the novel. She reconsiders her memory of Mrs. and Mr. Ramsay, balancing the multitude ofimpressions from ten years ago in an effort to reach towards an objective truth about Mrs. Ramsay and life itself.