Jules Verne
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Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
Portrait c. 1884
The Lycée Royal (now Georges Clemenceau), where Verne studied
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Cover of an 1856–57 issue of Musée des familles
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Center of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, is a classic science fiction novel writte
Jules Verne
…collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels are generally set in the second half of…
Front cover of an 1874 English translation
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Édouard Riou's illustration of an Ichthyosaurus battling a Plesiosaurus.