ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jules Verne's original name is Jules Gabriel Verne. He was born on 8 February 1828
and died on 24 March 1905. He was a 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
is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe,
where he has had a wide influence on the literature.
His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions,
where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and
altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.
Verne has
been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between
the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare; he was probably was the
most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He has sometimes been called
"The Father of Science Fiction", a title also often given to H.G.Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
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