VOYAGE BENEATH THE WAVES was published two years prior to Jules Vernes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Verne, when he became aware of Jules Rengades serial version, felt obliged to write the magazine editor to set the record straight--HED developed the idea independently! In fact, the influence was very much the other way around: although Rengade had come up with the idea of an imaginary voyage of submarine exploration separately, hed modeled his narrative style on Vernes, thus producing the first "Vernean" novel written by someone other than the great man himself. This is the first...
VOYAGE BENEATH THE WAVES was published two years prior to Jules Vernes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Verne, when he became aware of Jules Ren...
