Jules Verne Works, Novels, Plays, EBooks, Literature

Jules Verne Works & Literature

About Jules Verne

The most translated novelist of the world, Jules Gabriel Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel well before the means to do so had become practical or commonplace. On February 8, 1828, Verne was born in Nantes, France and spent much of his childhood at home with his parents. At the age of nine, Verne and his brother Paul were sent to the boarding school of Saint Donatien College in Nantes. The famous French inventor Brutus de Villeroi, who created the US Navy’s first submarine, might have been one of his teachers. In 1848, Verne's father withdrew his financial support when he discovered that Verne was writing librettos for operettas and adventure tales instead of studying for the bar. During this time, he met Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas who offered him advice on his writing. He was also encouraged by a widow named Honorine de Viane Morel whom he married on January 10, 1857. Soon after, he met and formed a superb writer-publisher team with Pierre-Jules Hetzel, a very important French publisher in the 19th century. With Hetzel’s advice, Verne's writing became more reader friendly and started to sell. Verne is best known for his writings Journey to the Center of the earth (1864), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). Jules' works took on a darker tone after the deaths of Hetzel and his beloved mother in 1887. However, it was discovered that Verne's son Micheal had made extensive changes in Verne's later stories. The original versions were published at the end of the 20th century. In 1888, Jules Verne was elected into politics and worked towards several improvements as the town counselor of Amiens for the next fifteen years. Verne died in 1905 of diabetes.