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Jules Gabriel Verne (/ v ɜːr n /; [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 Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues ...
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the world, which was inspired by the 1873 book Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
The Fur Country (French: Le Pays des fourrures) or Seventy Degrees North Latitude is an adventure novel by Jules Verne in The Extraordinary Voyages series, first published in 1873. The novel was serialized in Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation from 20 September 1872 to 15 December 1873.
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Yesterday and Tomorrow (French: Hier et Demain) is a posthumous collection of short stories by Jules Verne, first published in 1910 by Louis-Jules Hetzel. The stories in the original French edition were edited and/or modified by the author's son, Michel Verne .
Jules Verne remains to this day the most translated science fiction author in the world [7] as well as one of the most continually reprinted and widely read French authors. Though often scientifically outdated, his Voyages still retain their sense of wonder that appealed to readers of his time, and still provoke an interest in the sciences ...
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Jules Verne, circa 1856 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.