Jules Verne

Jules Verne was a French novelist, poet and playwright. With his publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel he created the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of adventure novels that includes Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas in 1870 and Around the World in Eighty Days in 1872. His stories took readers under the sea, into the earth and around the globe, and his books are still widely translated.