Fantasy, drama, young adult fiction, mystery, thriller, Bildungsroman
Published
1891-1994
Language
English
Jules Gabriel Verne born on 8 February 1828 – 24 March 190 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 Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always very well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.
In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games.
Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism.[4] His reputation was markedly different in anglophone regions where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.[5]
Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare.[6] He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.[7] In the 2010's, he is the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.
Paris in the Twentieth Century
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Five Weeks in a Balloon
In The Search Of The Castaways
Michel Strogoff
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
Around the Moon
Two Years' Vacation
The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras
Off on a Comet
Master Of The World
Robur the Conqueror
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
The Underground City
The Purchase of the North Pole
The Survivors of the Chancellor
An Antarctic Mystery
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Facing the Flag
Lighthouse at the End of the World
The Steam House
The Chase of the Golden Meteor
The Begum's Fortune
The Fur Country
Jules Verne: The Collection
Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
Claudius Bombarnac
A Floating City
The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa