Posted by Hari on June 11, 2013, 9:51 p.m.
Jules Gabriel Verne (French pronunciation: ?[?yl v??n]) (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.
Born
to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, Verne 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, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Verne
is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe,
where he has had a wide influence on the literaryavant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer ofgenre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and
altered translations in which his novels are
often reprinted.