Another Polish attempt to regain control in 1863 was even less successful. In 1830 the Poles successfully threw their Russian overlords out of power, but the Russians were back within the year. After defeating the Austro-Russian army in December 1805, Napoleon I of France established the Grand Duchy of Warsaw (Poland’s major city) in 1807 after Napoleon’s eventual defeat in 1814, the Russians turned the Duchy into a constitutional monarchy that was ruled by the Russian czar. By 1795 there was no country of “Poland” left.įoreign powers dominated the land in the 1800s. The political tensions of Verne’s day had their roots about a century earlier in 1772, when Russia, Austria, and Prussia began to divide Poland among themselves in a series of three partitions that slowly but surely consumed the entire country. Poland had experienced a long and troubled relationship with the Russian nation on its borders, and the situation came to a violent head shortly before Verne wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. In 1863 the Polish people rose up against the Russian czar who had become their dictator. Events in History at the Time of the Novel Polish-Russian strife
Added to this love was a passionate feeling about current events that would greatly affect the development of character and action in the novel. The fact that young Verne took refuge at sea reflected his deep love for the watery depths, and his interest in the ocean later resurfaced in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, a remarkably prophetic novel. In his early teens, he ran away and worked for a day on a sailing vessel before his father fetched him home. Meanwhile, his mother showed her fast-paced imagination, which Verne later compared to his own. His father groomed him to become a lawyer but regularly read the latest science news to his five children. He had begun writing in his teens, creating unremarkable plays, articles, and stories. Verne combines adventure and learning in a study of freedom, revenge, and scientific discovery beneath the waves.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn in the seaport town of Nantes, France, Jules Verne reached his thirties before settling into the life of a science fiction writer, the occupation of his choice. A novel set in the depths of the world’s oceans around 1869, first published in France as a magazine serial in 1869 and as a book in 1870.
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