Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - Chennai Peacock Books 2016 - 320

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 and ndash; 24 March 1905), a French novelist, poet and playwright, is best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.He was trained to follow in his father and rsquo;s profession of a lawyer, but quit it 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, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days

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