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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 ...
Apr 12, 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.' Updated: May...
Mar 31, 2024 · Jules Verne: The Visionary Writer Who Invented the Future - History Tools. by history tools. March 31, 2024. Jules Verne is widely regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction and a true visionary who predicted the future through his writing.
Jul 3, 2019 · Allen Grove. Updated on July 03, 2019. Jules Verne is frequently called the "father of science fiction," and among all writers, only Agatha Christie's works have been translated more. Verne wrote numerous plays, essays, books of nonfiction, and short stories, but he was best known for his novels.
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 has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world.
