Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.Vernes collaboration with the publisher PierreJules 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 avantgarde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or childrens books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed.Verne has been the second mosttranslated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, and Hugo Gernsback.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A Tour of the Underwater World (French Vingt mille lieues sous les mers Tour du monde sousmarin, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas A Tour of the Underwater World") was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in PierreJules Hetzels periodical, the Magasin dEducation et de Recreation. The deluxe illustrated edition, published by...

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