All 10 Uses
Jules Verne
in
All the Light We Cannot See
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- She imagines Jules Verne's characters walking along the streets, chatting in shops; a half-inch-tall baker slides speck-sized loaves in and out of his ovens; three minuscule burglars hatch plans as they drive slowly past the jeweler's; little grumbling cars throng the rue de Mirbel, wipers sliding back and forth.†
p. 46.5
- Marie-Laure reads Jules Verne in the key pound, on the toilet, in the corridors; she reads on the benches of the Grand Gallery and out along the hundred gravel paths of the gardens.†
p. 60.2 *
- That every year, on her birthday, her father would present her with another puzzle and another novel, and she would read all of Jules Verne and all of Dumas and maybe even Balzac and Proust?†
p. 72.4
- Etienne doesn't have any Jules Verne, but he does have Darwin, he says, and reads to her from The Voyage of the "Beagle," translating English to French as he goes—the variety of species among the jumping spiders appears almost infinite ...Music spirals out of the radios, and it is splendid to drowse on the davenport, to be warm and fed, to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else.†
p. 135.5
- If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.†
p. 292.7
- A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.†
p. 328.7
- It's not until he finds three huge spiral-bound folios of Jules Verne in Braille that he solves it.†
p. 362.4
- As her father would, as Jules Verne's great marine biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax would.†
p. 384.4
- When she remembers reading Jules Verne to Helene, and Helene falling asleep beside her, the hot, hard weight of the girl's head against her ribs.†
p. 512.9
- A book by Jules Verne.†
p. 528.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(Jules Verne) French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)