Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne 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 that includes Journey to the Center of the Earth. Born in 1828 and dying in 1905. His novels, which include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Around the World in Eighty Days, are generally set in the second half of the nineteenth century and take account of contemporary scientific knowledge and technological advances. He also wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry and songs.