Jules Verne
Jules Verne (1828-1905). French writer who was one of the originators of what later came to be called science fiction.
Most famous works:
- Cinq semaines en ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon, 1863)
- Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864)
- De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865)
- Les enfants du Capitaine Grant (In Search of the Castaways, 1867-1868)
- Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers (20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (1870)
- Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days, 1873)
- L'Île mystérieuse (Mysterious Island, 1874)
- Michel Strogoff (Michael Strogoff, 1876)