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Jules Gabriel Verne ( / vɜːrn /; [ 1][ 2] French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) [ 3] was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, [ 3] a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the ...
Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Most famous for his novel sequence, the Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne also wrote assorted short stories, plays, miscellaneous novels, essays, and poetry.
Aug 2, 2024 · Jules Verne, prolific French author whose writings laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction. Among his most famous novels are Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Apr 2, 2014 · Jules Verne, a 19th-century French author, is famed for such revolutionary science-fiction novels as 'Around the World in Eighty Days' and 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.'
Jul 3, 2019 · Here's information about the life, works, and influences of Jules Verne, the French author who is often called the father of science fiction.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas ( French: Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It is often considered a classic within both its genres and world literature .
Jules Verne is arguably one of the most underestimated writers of the entire French literary tradition. Although ranked as the fifth most-translated author of all time (behind Lenin, Agatha Christie, Walt Disney, and the Bible—according to a UNESCO poll), Verne and his Extraordinary Journeys (1863–1910) were until recently persistently ...
May 17, 2018 · French author Jules Verne (1828–1905) is generally considered the father of science fiction. His immense catalogue of work, containing over forty science-fiction and adventure novels, has been translated from French into dozens of languages and has been read by people around the world.
Jules Verne (born February 8, 1828, Nantes, France—died March 24, 1905, Amiens) was a prolific French author whose writings laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction. Verne’s father, intending that Jules follow in his footsteps as an attorney, sent him to Paris to study law.
Jules Verne, (born Feb. 8, 1828, Nantes, France—died March 24, 1905, Amiens), French writer. He studied law then worked as a stockbroker while writing plays and stories. The first of his romantic adventures ( voyages extraordinaires ), Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), was highly successful.