Floating island
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Floating island
14.99 €
Written in 1895, the science fiction novel "The Floating Island" is part of the extensive "Extraordinary Voyages" series that Jules Verne began writing in 1863.This series included most of the writer's works. In the novel, Verne describes American millionaires who decide to isolate themselves from the world around them and as a result suffer a catastrophe. The text of the novel is given in translation by E. Lopyreva and N. Rykova, edited by B. Weissman. Weissman. Illustrations in this edition are made by the remarkable artist Peter Ivanovich Lugansky.
In 1862, Jules Verne showed his recently written work about the journey of brave heroes in a hot air balloon to the famous Parisian publisher Pierre Etzel, and the latter liked how the novice writer successfully placed the description of technical innovations of his time in the fascinating shell of an adventure novel. As a result, Etzel made Verne a tempting offer - to write three novels a year for a fixed fee. The condition on the part of the publisher was one - "to designate all geographical, geological, physical and astronomical knowledge accumulated by modern science, and retell them in an entertaining and picturesque form". Jules Verne readily agreed. So began a series of his works, united under the common name "Extraordinary Voyages". The novel "Floating Island" is included in it, because in it the writer familiarizes his readers with the geography of several archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean and the peculiarities of life on the islands lost in the boundless waters. However, Jules Verne does not change his method - this information is embedded in his story about the adventures of his heroes. This time the writer's imagination has created a huge island-ship, which became home to American billionaires and furrowing the vastness of the ocean. The novel "Floating Island" in this edition is illustrated with wonderful drawings by Peter Ivanovich Lugansky. The future artist was born in 1911 in the village of Bokovo, Lugansk province. After completing seven years of schooling, he went to Kharkov, where he entered one of the oldest art schools in Ukraine, which was a kind of analog of the Stieglitz School in St. Petersburg. Soon Pyotr Ivanovich became a universal professional. He painted in watercolor and charcoal, did lithography, engraving and easel painting. The color scheme of his illustrations for "Floating Island" is laconic: bluish tones convey boundless distances, pale and light brown - the light and shadows of the foreground. At the same time Lugansky is always accurate in conveying jungles, sea expanses, sailing ships, exotic outfits... One gets the impression that he himself traveled the world together with Jules Verne's heroes. Where and how he researched the nature he painted? It is hardly possible to answer this question now. Maybe Lugansky simply had a powerful creative imagination, which allowed him to faithfully reproduce pictures of life, which he never saw with his own eyes? After all, the artist never left the Soviet Union.
In 1862, Jules Verne showed his recently written work about the journey of brave heroes in a hot air balloon to the famous Parisian publisher Pierre Etzel, and the latter liked how the novice writer successfully placed the description of technical innovations of his time in the fascinating shell of an adventure novel. As a result, Etzel made Verne a tempting offer - to write three novels a year for a fixed fee. The condition on the part of the publisher was one - "to designate all geographical, geological, physical and astronomical knowledge accumulated by modern science, and retell them in an entertaining and picturesque form". Jules Verne readily agreed. So began a series of his works, united under the common name "Extraordinary Voyages". The novel "Floating Island" is included in it, because in it the writer familiarizes his readers with the geography of several archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean and the peculiarities of life on the islands lost in the boundless waters. However, Jules Verne does not change his method - this information is embedded in his story about the adventures of his heroes. This time the writer's imagination has created a huge island-ship, which became home to American billionaires and furrowing the vastness of the ocean. The novel "Floating Island" in this edition is illustrated with wonderful drawings by Peter Ivanovich Lugansky. The future artist was born in 1911 in the village of Bokovo, Lugansk province. After completing seven years of schooling, he went to Kharkov, where he entered one of the oldest art schools in Ukraine, which was a kind of analog of the Stieglitz School in St. Petersburg. Soon Pyotr Ivanovich became a universal professional. He painted in watercolor and charcoal, did lithography, engraving and easel painting. The color scheme of his illustrations for "Floating Island" is laconic: bluish tones convey boundless distances, pale and light brown - the light and shadows of the foreground. At the same time Lugansky is always accurate in conveying jungles, sea expanses, sailing ships, exotic outfits... One gets the impression that he himself traveled the world together with Jules Verne's heroes. Where and how he researched the nature he painted? It is hardly possible to answer this question now. Maybe Lugansky simply had a powerful creative imagination, which allowed him to faithfully reproduce pictures of life, which he never saw with his own eyes? After all, the artist never left the Soviet Union.
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- All books in the series Library of World Literature