Jules Verne's Early Novels 1864-70, Unabridged, a Journey to the Center of the Earth, from the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, the English at the N de Jules Verne

Jules Verne's Early Novels 1864-70, Unabridged, a Journey to the Center of the Earth, from the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, the English at the N

Jules Verne

Jules Verne was a prolific author, writing 54 novels. He is the second most translated author (Agatha Christie being the first) and is the Father of Science Fiction. The novels have enduring appeal and even though some of the science seems dated the stories are so enthralling that it does not matter. In this volume of his early works are all his novels between 1864 and 1870: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, The English at the North Pole, The Field of Ice (The Adventures of Captain Hatteras Parts I and II), In Search of the Castaways (or The Children of Captain Grant), and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).