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
Aristide Hignard
Cover of an 1856–57 issue of Musée des familles
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's French
Jules Verne
…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 the 19th century, taking into account contemporary…
Frontispiece of 1871 edition
Illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
Illustration of the Nautilus by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
1956 cover of "Collins Seagull Library" abridged edition of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea