Growing up in Hungary, this was my favorite work from Jules Verne, resonating well with experiencing occasional hardships in countryside life in Central Europe, and in spite of this, remaining optimistic, resourceful, and co-operative while trusting God.
The novel is still an obligatory reading in the curriculum of many Hungarian Primary Schools, and is also pretty popular in Japan, even an Anime "The story of fifteen boys" was made from it.
Later, it came to me as a surprise that this story of Verne is pretty obscure in Western Europe and the USA, being overshadowed by such Verne classics as "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
Which factors do you think could have made this novel also ubiquitously popular in the West, just like in Japan and Hungary?
How could it have altered popular culture, if more people identified Jules Verne with this work?
The novel is still an obligatory reading in the curriculum of many Hungarian Primary Schools, and is also pretty popular in Japan, even an Anime "The story of fifteen boys" was made from it.
Later, it came to me as a surprise that this story of Verne is pretty obscure in Western Europe and the USA, being overshadowed by such Verne classics as "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
Which factors do you think could have made this novel also ubiquitously popular in the West, just like in Japan and Hungary?
How could it have altered popular culture, if more people identified Jules Verne with this work?