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Jules Verne


Born
in Nantes, France
February 08, 1828

Died
March 24, 1905

Genre
Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Influences
Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, James Fen ...more


Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."

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From the Earth to the Moon
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“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
tags: books, reading
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“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
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September 2015 Old School Classic Poll

1857, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages
 
  32 votes, 21.3%

 
  25 votes, 16.7%

 
  23 votes, 15.3%

-850, The Odyssey by Homer, 560 pages
 
  19 votes, 12.7%

 
  15 votes, 10.0%

1853, Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, 432 pages
 
  9 votes, 6.0%

1887, The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, 464 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.7%

1833, Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.7%

1880, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, 352 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.7%

 
  3 votes, 2.0%

 
  3 votes, 2.0%

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