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Jules Verne
Writing Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
- Born
- 8 February 1828
- Birthplace
- Nantes, France
- Died
- 24 March 1905
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne was a French novelist who made geography, engineering and exploration the engines of adventure. His Extraordinary Voyages series brought scientific curiosity into popular fiction without being a catalogue of literal predictions.
Early life
Port-city childhood
Grew up in Nantes, where ships and trade fed an interest in travel.
Law to literature
Studied law in Paris but pursued theatre and writing.
Career
- 1850s
Literary beginnings
Wrote plays and stories while working to support himself.
- 1863
Publishing partnership
Five Weeks in a Balloon began his collaboration with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel.
- 1860s–1890s
Extraordinary Voyages
Produced the adventure novels that established his international reputation.
Selected work
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
An expedition descends beneath the planet’s surface.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Captain Nemo’s submarine opens an undersea world.
Around the World in Eighty Days
A wager becomes a journey through global transport networks.
Beyond work
Sailing
Owned boats and travelled by sea, though many of his imagined destinations came from research.
Amiens
Settled in Amiens and served on its municipal council.
Sources & photo credit
Life and career ↗Institutional or specialist reference ↗Photo: Étienne Carjat / Adam Cuerden. Public domain · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
