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Jules Verne

Jules Verne
Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Jules Verne (restoration).jpg
Photograph by Nadar c. 1878
Born Jules Gabriel Verne
(1828-02-08)8 February 1828
Nantes, France
Died 24 March 1905(1905-03-24) (aged 77)
Amiens, France
Resting place , Amiens, France
Occupation Novelist, poet, playwright
Nationality French
Period 1850–1905
Notable works
Spouse Honorine Hebe du Fraysse de Viane (Morel) Verne
Children Michel Verne and step-daughters Valentine and Suzanne Morel

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Jules Gabriel Verne (/lz//vɜːrn/;French: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.


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