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Jules Gabriel Verne (/ v ɜːr n /; French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).
Jun 21, 2024 · 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. But the young Verne fell in love with literature ...
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. His works are notable for their profound influence on science fiction [1] and on surrealism, [2] their innovative use of ...
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 · Jules Verne wrote in many genres, and his publications include over a dozen plays and short stories, numerous essays, and four books of nonfiction. His fame, however, came from his novels. Along with the fifty-four novels Verne published as part of Extraordinary Voyages during his lifetime, another eight novels were added to the collection posthumously thanks to the efforts of his son, Michel.
Childhood in Nantes: The Art of the Sea and of the Machine Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828, to a middle-class French family in the western port city of Nantes. His mother, Sophie (née Allotte de la Fuye), was the daughter of a prominent Nantes family of ship owners. His father, Pierre Verne, was a lawyer and the son of a Provins ...
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. His subsequent voyages —with increasingly fantastic ...
