Jules Verne - wikipedia Jules Verne For other uses, see Jules Verne ( disambiguation ). Jules Verne Photograph by Nadar c. 1878 Jules Gabriel Verne ( 1828 - 02 - 08 ) 8 February 1828 Nantes, France 24 March 1905 ( 1905 - 03 - 24 ) ( aged 77 ) Amiens, France Resting place La Madeleine cemetery, Amiens, France Occupation Novelist, poet, playwright Nationality French Period 1850 -- 1905 Notable works Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth From the Earth to the Moon Around the World in Eighty Days The Mysterious Island Five Weeks in a Balloon Michael Strogoff Off on a Comet Robur the Conqueror An Antarctic Mystery ' Master of the World ( novel ) Spouse Honorine Hebe du Fraysse de Viane ( Morel ) Verne Children Michel Verne and step - daughters Valentine and Suzanne Morel Signature French literature by category French literary history Medieval Renaissance 17th 18th 19th 20th century Contemporary French writers Chronological list Writers by category Essayists Novelists Playwrights Poets Short story writers Children 's writers Portals France French language Literature French / Francophone literature Jules Gabriel Verne ( / dʒ uː lz / / vɜːrn / ; French : ( ʒyl vɛʁn ) ; 8 February 1828 -- 24 March 1905 ) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. 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. Verne has been the second most - translated 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 and Hugo Gernsback. Contents 1 Life 1.1 Early life 1.2 Studies in Paris 1.3 Literary debut 1.4 Family 1.5 Hetzel 1.6 Later years 1.7 Death and posthumous publications 2 Works 2.1 Literary reception 2.2 English translations 2.3 Relationship with science fiction 3 Legacy 4 Notes 4.1 Footnotes 4.2 References 4.3 Citations 5 External links Life Early life Nantes from Île Feydeau, around the time of Verne 's birth Jules Gabriel Verne was born on 8 February 1828, on Île Feydeau, a small artificial island on the Loire River within the town of Nantes, in No. 4 Rue de Clisson, the house of his maternal grandmother Dame Sophie Allotte de la Fuÿe. His parents were Pierre Verne, an attorney originally from Provins, and Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe, a Nantes woman from a local family of navigators and shipowners, of distant Scottish descent. In 1829, the Verne family moved some hundred meters away to No. 2 Quai Jean - Bart, where Verne 's brother Paul was born the same year. Three sisters, Anna ( 1836 ), Mathilde ( 1839 ), and Marie ( 1842 ) would follow. In 1834, at the age of six, Verne was sent to boarding school at 5 Place du Bouffay in Nantes. The teacher, Mme Sambin, was the widow of a naval captain who had disappeared some 30 years before. Mme Sambin often told the students that her husband was a shipwrecked castaway and that he would eventually return like Robinson Crusoe from his desert island paradise. The theme of the Robinsonade would stay with Verne throughout his life and appear in many of his novels, including The Mysterious Island ( 1874 ), Second Fatherland ( 1900 ), and The School for Robinsons ( 1882 ). In 1836, Verne went on to École Saint ‐ Stanislas, a Catholic school suiting the pious religious tastes of his father. Verne quickly distinguished himself in mémoire ( recitation from memory ), geography, Greek, Latin, and singing. In the same year, 1836, Pierre Verne bought a vacation house at 29 Rue des Réformés in the village of Chantenay ( now part of Nantes ) on the Loire River. In his brief memoir `` Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse '' ( `` Memories of Childhood and Youth '', 1890 ), Verne recalled a deep fascination with the river and with the many merchant vessels navigating it. He also took vacations at Brains, in the house of his uncle Prudent Allotte, a retired shipowner, who had gone around the world and served as mayor of Brains from 1828 to 1837. Verne took joy in playing interminable rounds of the Game of the Goose with his uncle, and both the game and his uncle 's name would be memorialized in two late novels ( The Will of an Eccentric ( 1900 ) and Robur the Conqueror ( 1886 ), respectively ). Legend has it that in 1839, at the age of 11, Verne secretly procured a spot as cabin boy on the three - mast ship Coralie, with the intention of traveling to the Indies and bringing back a coral necklace for his cousin Caroline. The ship was due to set out for the Indies that evening but stopped first at Paimboeuf, where Pierre Verne arrived just in time to catch his son and make him promise to travel `` only in his imagination ''. It is now known that the legend is an exaggerated tale invented by Verne 's first biographer, his niece Marguerite Allotte de la Füye, though it may have been inspired by a real incident. The Lycée Royal in Nantes ( now the Lycée Georges - Clemenceau ), where Jules Verne studied In 1840, the Vernes moved again to a large apartment at No. 6 Rue Jean - Jacques - Rousseau, where the family 's youngest child, Marie, was born in 1842. In the same year Verne entered another religious school, the Petit Séminaire de Saint - Donatien, as a lay student. His unfinished novel Un prêtre en 1839 ( A Priest in 1839 ), written in his teens and the earliest of his prose works to survive, describes the seminary in disparaging terms. From 1844 to 1846, Verne and his brother were enrolled in the Lycée Royal ( now the Lycée Georges - Clemenceau ) in Nantes. After finishing classes in rhetoric and philosophy, he took the baccalauréat at Rennes and received the grade `` Fairly good '' on 29 July 1846. By 1847, when Verne was 19, he had taken seriously to writing long works in the style of Victor Hugo, beginning Un prêtre en 1839 and seeing two verse tragedies, Alexandre VI and La Conspiration des poudres ( The Gunpowder Plot ), to completion. However, his father took it for granted that Verne, being the firstborn son of the family, would not attempt to make money in literature but would instead inherit the family law practice. In 1847, Verne 's father sent him to Paris, primarily to begin his studies in law school, and secondarily ( according to family legend ) to distance him temporarily from Nantes. His cousin Caroline, with whom he was in love, was married on 27 April 1847, to Émile Dezaunay, a man of 40, with whom she would have five children. After a short stay in Paris, where he passed first - year law exams, Verne returned to Nantes for his father 's help in preparing for the second year ( provincial law students were in that era required to go to Paris to take exams ). While in Nantes, he met Rose Herminie Arnaud Grossetière, a young woman one year his senior, and fell intensely in love with her. He wrote and dedicated some 30 poems to her, including `` La Fille de l'air '' ( `` The Daughter of Air '' ), which describes her as `` blonde and enchanting / winged and transparent ''. His passion seems to have been reciprocated, at least for a short time, but Grossetière 's parents frowned upon the idea of their daughter marrying a young student of uncertain future. They married her instead to Armand Terrien de la Haye, a rich landowner 10 years her senior, on 19 July 1848. The sudden marriage sent Verne into deep frustration. He wrote a hallucinatory letter to his mother, apparently composed in a state of half - drunkenness, in which under pretext of a dream he described his misery. This requited but aborted love affair seems to have permanently marked the author and his work, and his novels include a significant number of young women married against their will ( Gérande in `` Master Zacharius '' ( 1854 ), Sava in Mathias Sandorf ( 1885 ), Ellen in A Floating City ( 1871 ), etc. ), to such an extent that the scholar Christian Chelebourg attributed the recurring theme to a `` Herminie complex ''. The incident also led Verne to bear a grudge against his birthplace and Nantes society, which he criticized in his poem `` La sixième ville de France '' ( `` The Sixth City of France '' ). Studies in Paris In July 1848, Verne left Nantes again for Paris, where his father intended him to finish law studies and take up law as a profession. He obtained permission from his father to rent a furnished apartment at 24 Rue de l'Ancienne - Comédie, which he shared with Édouard Bonamy, another student of Nantes origin. ( On his 1847 Paris visit, Verne had stayed at 2 Rue Thérèse, the house of his aunt Charuel, on the Butte Saint - Roch. ) Verne arrived in Paris during a time of political upheaval : the French Revolution of 1848. In February, Louis Philippe I had been overthrown and had fled ; on 24 February, a provisional government of the French Second Republic took power, but political demonstrations continued, and social tension remained. In June, barricades went up in Paris, and the government sent Louis - Eugène Cavaignac to crush the insurrection. Verne entered the city shortly before the election of Louis - Napoléon Bonaparte as the first president of the Republic, a state of affairs that would last until the French coup of 1851, in which Bonaparte had himself crowned ruler of the Second French Empire. In a letter to his family, Verne described the bombarded state of the city after the recent June Days Uprising but assured them that the anniversary of Bastille Day had gone by without any significant conflict. Aristide Hignard Verne used his family connections to make an entrance into Paris society. His uncle Francisque de Chatêaubourg introduced him into literary salons, and Verne particularly frequented those of Mme de Barrère, a friend of his mother 's. While continuing his law studies, he fed his passion for the theatre, writing numerous plays. Verne later recalled : `` I was greatly under the influence of Victor Hugo, indeed, very excited by reading and re-reading his works. At that time I could have recited by heart whole pages of Notre Dame de Paris, but it was his dramatic work that most influenced me. '' Another source of creative stimulation came from a neighbor : living on the same floor in the Rue de l'Ancienne - Comédie apartment house was a young composer, Aristide Hignard, with whom Verne soon became good friends, and Verne wrote several texts for Hignard to set as chansons. During this period, Verne 's letters to his parents primarily focused on expenses and on a suddenly appearing series of violent stomach cramps, the first of many he would suffer from during his life. ( Modern scholars have hypothesized that he suffered from colitis ; Verne believed the illness to have been inherited from his mother 's side. ) Rumors of an outbreak of cholera in March 1849 exacerbated these medical concerns. Yet another health problem would strike in 1851, when Verne suffered the first of four attacks of facial paralysis. These attacks, rather than being psychosomatic, were due to an inflammation in the middle ear, though this cause remained unknown to Verne during his life. In the same year, Verne was required to enlist in the French military, but the sortition process spared him, to his great relief. He wrote to his father : `` You should already know, dear papa, what I think of the military life, and of these domestic servants in livery.... You have to abandon all dignity to perform such functions. '' Verne 's strong antiwar sentiments, to the dismay of his father, would remain steadfast throughout his life. Though writing profusely and frequenting the salons, Verne diligently pursued his law studies and graduated with a licence en droit in January 1851. Literary debut Thanks to his visits to salons, Verne came into contact in 1849 with Alexandre Dumas through the mutual acquaintance of a celebrated chirologist of the time, the Chevalier d'Arpentigny. Verne became close friends with Dumas ' son, Alexandre Dumas, fils, and showed him a manuscript for a stage comedy, Les Pailles rompues ( The Broken Straws ). The two young men revised the play together, and Dumas, through arrangements with his father, had it produced by the Opéra - National at the Théâtre Historique in Paris, opening on 12 June 1850. Cover of an 1854 -- 55 issue of Musée des familles In 1851, Verne met with a fellow writer from Nantes, Pierre - Michel - François Chevalier ( known as `` Pitre - Chevalier '' ), the editor - in - chief of the magazine Musée des familles ( The Family Museum ). Pitre - Chevalier was looking for articles about geography, history, science, and technology, and was keen to make sure that the educational component would be made accessible to large popular audiences using a straightforward prose style or an engaging fictional story. Verne, with his delight in diligent research, especially in geography, was a natural for the job. Verne first offered him a short historical adventure story, `` The First Ships of the Mexican Navy '', written in the style of James Fenimore Cooper, whose novels had deeply influenced him. Pitre - Chevalier published it in July 1851, and in the same year published a second short story, `` A Voyage in a Balloon '' ( August 1851 ). The latter story, with its combination of adventurous narrative, travel themes, and detailed historical research, would later be described by Verne as `` the first indication of the line of novel that I was destined to follow. '' Dumas fils put Verne in contact with Jules Seveste, a stage director who had taken over the directorship of the Théâtre - Historique and renamed it the Théâtre Lyrique. Seveste offered Verne the job of secretary of the theatre, with little or no salary attached. Verne accepted, using the opportunity to write and produce several comic operas written in collaboration with Hignard and the prolific librettist Michel Carré. To celebrate his employment at the Théâtre Lyrique, Verne joined with ten friends to found a bachelors ' dining club, the Onze - sans - femme ( Eleven Bachelors ). For some time, Verne 's father pressed him to abandon his writing and begin a business as a lawyer. However, Verne argued in his letters that he could only find success in literature. The pressure to plan for a secure future in law reached its climax in January 1852, when his father offered Verne his own Nantes law practice. Faced with this ultimatum, Verne decided conclusively to continue his literary life and refuse the job, writing : `` Am I not right to follow my own instincts ? It 's because I know who I am that I realize what I can be one day. '' Jacques Arago Meanwhile, Verne was spending much time at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, conducting research for his stories and feeding his passion for science and recent discoveries, especially in geography. It was in this period that Verne met the illustrious geographer and explorer Jacques Arago, who continued to travel extensively despite his blindness ( he had lost his sight completely in 1837 ). The two men became good friends, and Arago 's innovative and witty accounts of his travels led Verne toward a newly developing genre of literature : that of travel writing. In 1852, two new pieces from Verne appeared in the Musée des familles : `` Martin Paz '', a novella set in Lima, which Verne wrote in 1851 and published 10 July through 11 August 1852, and Les Châteaux en Californie, ou, Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse ( The Castles in California, or, A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss ), a one - act comedy full of racy double entendres. In April and May 1854, the magazine published Verne 's short story `` Master Zacharius '', an E.T.A. Hoffmann - like fantasy featuring a sharp condemnation of scientific hubris and ambition, followed soon afterward by `` A Winter Amid the Ice '', a polar adventure story whose themes closely anticipated many of Verne 's novels. The Musée also published some nonfiction popular science articles which, though unsigned, are generally attributed to Verne. Verne 's work for the magazine was cut short in 1856, when he had a serious quarrel with Pitre - Chevalier and refused to continue contributing ( a refusal he would maintain until 1863, when Pitre - Chevalier died, and the magazine went to new editorship ). While writing stories and articles for Pitre - Chevalier, Verne began to form the idea of inventing a new kind of novel, a Roman de la Science ( novel of science ), which would allow him to incorporate large amounts of the factual information he so enjoyed researching in the Bibliothèque. He is said to have discussed the project with the elder Alexandre Dumas, who had tried something similar with an unfinished novel, Isaac Laquedem, and who enthusiastically encouraged Verne 's project. At the end of 1854, another outbreak of cholera led to the death of Jules Seveste, Verne 's employer at the Théâtre Lyrique and by then a good friend. Though his contract only held him to a further year of service, Verne remained connected to the theatre for several years after Seveste 's death, seeing additional productions to fruition. He also continued to write plays and musical comedies, most of which were not performed. Family In May 1856, Verne traveled to Amiens to be the best man at the wedding of a Nantes friend, Auguste Lelarge, to an Amiens woman named Aimée du Fraysse de Viane. Verne, invited to stay with the bride 's family, took to them warmly, befriending the entire household and finding himself increasingly attracted to the bride 's sister, Honorine de Viane Morel, a widow aged 26 with two young children. Hoping to find a secure source of income, as well as a chance to court Morel in earnest, he jumped at her brother 's offer to go into business with a brokerage. Verne 's father was initially dubious but gave in to his son 's requests for approval in November 1856. With his financial situation finally looking promising, Verne won the favor of Morel and her family, and the couple were married on 10 January 1857. Verne plunged into his new business obligations, leaving his work at the Théâtre Lyrique and taking up a full - time job as an agent de change on the Paris Bourse, where he became the associate of the broker Fernand Eggly. Verne woke up early each morning so that he would have time to write, before going to the Bourse for the day 's work ; in the rest of his spare time, he continued to consort with the Onze - Sans - Femme club ( all eleven of its `` bachelors '' had by this time gotten married ). He also continued to frequent the Bibliothèque to do scientific and historical research, much of which he copied onto notecards for future use -- a system he would continue for the rest of his life. According to the recollections of a colleague, Verne `` did better in repartee than in business ''. Jules Verne Funeral Procession, headed by his son and grandson, 1905 In July 1858, Verne and Aristide Hignard seized an opportunity offered by Hignard 's brother : a sea voyage, at no charge, from Bordeaux to Liverpool and Scotland. The journey, Verne 's first trip outside France, deeply impressed him, and upon his return to Paris he fictionalized his recollections to form the backbone of a semi-autobiographical novel, Backwards to Britain ( written in the autumn and winter of 1859 -- 1860 and not published until 1989 ). A second complementary voyage in 1861 took Hignard and Verne to Stockholm, from where they traveled to Christiania and through Telemark. Verne left Hignard in Denmark to return in haste to Paris, but missed the birth on 3 August 1861 of his only biological son, Michel. Meanwhile, Verne continued work on the idea of a Roman de la Science, which he developed in a rough draft inspired, according to his recollections, by his `` love for maps and the great explorers of the world ''. It took shape as a story of travel across Africa and would eventually become his first published novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon. Hetzel Pierre - Jules Hetzel In 1862, through their mutual acquaintance Alfred de Bréhat, Verne came into contact with the publisher Pierre - Jules Hetzel, and submitted to him the manuscript of his developing novel, then called Voyage en Ballon. Hetzel, already the publisher of Balzac, George Sand, Victor Hugo, and other well - known authors, had long been planning to launch a high - quality family magazine in which entertaining fiction would combine with scientific education. He saw Verne, with his demonstrated inclination toward scrupulously researched adventure stories, as an ideal contributor for such a magazine, and accepted the novel, giving Verne suggestions for improvement. Verne made the proposed revisions within two weeks and returned to Hetzel with the final draft, now titled Five Weeks in a Balloon. It was published by Hetzel on 31 January 1863. To secure his services for the planned magazine, to be called the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation ( Magazine of Education and Recreation ), Hetzel also drew up a long - term contract in which Verne would give him three volumes of text per year, each of which Hetzel would buy outright for a flat fee. Verne, finding both a steady salary and a sure outlet for writing at last, accepted immediately. For the rest of his lifetime, most of his novels would be serialized in Hetzel 's Magasin before their appearance in book form, beginning with his second novel for Hetzel, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras ( 1864 -- 65 ). A Hetzel edition of Verne 's The Adventures of Captain Hatteras ( cover style `` Aux deux éléphants '' ) When The Adventures of Captain Hatteras was published in book form in 1866, Hetzel publicly announced his literary and educational ambitions for Verne 's novels by saying in a preface that Verne 's works would form a novel sequence called the Voyages extraordinaires ( Extraordinary Voyages or Extraordinary Journeys ), and that Verne 's aim was `` to outline all the geographical, geological, physical, and astronomical knowledge amassed by modern science and to recount, in an entertaining and picturesque format that is his own, the history of the universe. '' Late in life, Verne confirmed that this commission had become the running theme of his novels : `` My object has been to depict the earth, and not the earth alone, but the universe... And I have tried at the same time to realize a very high ideal of beauty of style. It is said that there ca n't be any style in a novel of adventure, but it is n't true. '' However, he also noted that the project was extremely ambitious : `` Yes ! But the Earth is very large, and life is very short ! In order to leave a completed work behind, one would need to live to be at least 100 years old ! '' Hetzel influenced many of Verne 's novels directly, especially in the first few years of their collaboration, for Verne was initially so happy to find a publisher that he agreed to almost all of the changes Hetzel suggested. For example, when Hetzel disapproved of the original climax of Captain Hatteras, including the death of the title character, Verne wrote an entirely new conclusion in which Hatteras survived. Hetzel also rejected Verne 's next submission, Paris in the Twentieth Century, believing its pessimistic view of the future and its condemnation of technological progress were too subversive for a family magazine. ( The manuscript, believed lost for some time after Verne 's death, was finally published in 1994. ) The relationship between publisher and writer changed significantly around 1869, when Verne and Hetzel were brought into conflict over the manuscript for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Verne had initially conceived of the submariner Captain Nemo as a Polish scientist whose acts of vengeance were directed against the Russians who had killed his family during the January Uprising. Hetzel, not wanting to alienate the lucrative Russian market for Verne 's books, demanded that Nemo be made an enemy of the slave trade, a situation that would make him an unambiguous hero. Verne, after fighting vehemently against the change, finally invented a compromise in which Nemo 's past is left mysterious. After this disagreement, Verne became notably cooler in his dealings with Hetzel, taking suggestions into consideration but often rejecting them outright. From that point, Verne published two or more volumes a year. The most successful of these are : Voyage au centre de la Terre ( Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864 ) ; De la Terre à la Lune ( From the Earth to the Moon, 1865 ) ; Vingt mille lieues sous les mers ( Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 1869 ) ; and Le tour du monde en quatre - vingts jours ( Around the World in Eighty Days ), which first appeared in Le Temps in 1872. Verne could now live on his writings. But most of his wealth came from the stage adaptations of Le tour du monde en quatre - vingts jours ( 1874 ) and Michel Strogoff ( 1876 ), which he wrote with Adolphe d'Ennery. Sketch by Verne of the Saint - Michel In 1867, Verne bought a small ship, the Saint - Michel, which he successively replaced with the Saint - Michel II and the Saint - Michel III as his financial situation improved. On board the Saint - Michel III, he sailed around Europe. After his first novel, most of his stories were first serialised in the Magazine d'Éducation et de Récréation, a Hetzel biweekly publication, before being published in book form. His brother Paul contributed to 40th French climbing of the Mont - Blanc and a collection of short stories -- Doctor Ox -- in 1874. Verne became wealthy and famous. Meanwhile, Michel Verne married an actress against his father 's wishes, had two children by an underage mistress, and buried himself in debts. The relationship between father and son improved as Michel grew older. Later years Though he was raised Catholic, Verne became a deist in his later years, from about 1870 onward. Some scholars believe his deist philosophy is reflected in his novels, as they often involve the notion of God or divine providence but rarely mention the concept of Christ. Jules Verne and Madame Verne ca. 1900 On 9 March 1886, as Verne was coming home, his twenty - six - year - old nephew, Gaston, shot at him twice with a pistol. The first bullet missed, but the second one entered Verne 's left leg, giving him a permanent limp that could not be overcome. This incident was hushed up in the media, but Gaston spent the rest of his life in a mental asylum. After the death of both his mother and Hetzel, Jules Verne began publishing darker works. In 1888, Verne entered politics and was elected town councilor of Amiens, where he championed several improvements and served for fifteen years. Verne was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1870. He was promoted to an Officier de la Legion d'honneur in 1892. Death and posthumous publications Jules Verne on his deathbed, 1905 Verne 's tomb in Amiens On 24 March 1905, while ill with diabetes, Verne died at his home in Amiens, 44 Boulevard Longueville ( now Boulevard Jules - Verne ). His son, Michel Verne, oversaw publication of the novels Invasion of the Sea and The Lighthouse at the End of the World after Jules 's death. The Voyages extraordinaires series continued for several years afterwards at the same rate of two volumes a year. It was later discovered that Michel Verne had made extensive changes in these stories, and the original versions were eventually published at the end of the 20th century by the Jules Verne Society ( Société Jules Verne ). Works Jules Verne novels : The Carpathian Castle, The Danube Pilot, Claudius Bombarnac and Kéraban the Inflexible. Miniature sheet, post of Romania 2005. See also : Jules Verne bibliography Verne 's largest body of work is the Voyages extraordinaires series, which includes all of his novels except for the two rejected manuscripts Paris in the Twentieth Century and Backwards to Britain ( published posthumously in 1994 and 1989, respectively ) and for projects left unfinished at his death ( many of which would be posthumously adapted or rewritten for publication by his son Michel ). Verne also wrote many plays, poems, song texts, operetta libretti, and short stories, as well as a variety of essays and miscellaneous non-fiction. Literary reception An 1889 Hetzel poster advertising Verne 's works After his debut under Hetzel, Verne was enthusiastically received in France by writers and scientists alike, with George Sand and Théophile Gautier among his earliest admirers. Several notable contemporary figures, from the geographer Vivien de Saint - Martin to the critic Jules Claretie, spoke highly of Verne and his works in critical and biographical notes. However, Verne 's growing popularity among readers and playgoers ( due especially to the highly successful stage version of Around the World in Eighty Days ) led to a gradual change in his literary reputation. As the novels and stage productions continued to sell, many contemporary critics felt that Verne 's status as a commercially popular author meant he could only be seen as a mere genre - based storyteller, rather than a serious author worthy of academic study. This denial of formal literary status took various forms, including dismissive criticism by such writers as Émile Zola and the lack of nomination to Verne for membership in the Académie Française, and was far from unrecognized by Verne himself, who said in a late interview : `` The great regret of my life is that I have never taken any place in French literature. '' To Verne, who considered himself `` a man of letters and an artist, living in the pursuit of the ideal '', this critical dismissal on the basis of literary ideology could only be seen as the ultimate snub. This bifurcation of Verne as a popular genre writer but a critical persona non grata continued after his death, with early biographies ( including one by Verne 's own niece, Marguerite Allotte de la Fuÿe ) focusing on error - filled and embroidered hagiography of Verne as a popular figure rather than on Verne 's actual working methods or his output. Meanwhile, sales of Verne 's novels in their original unabridged versions dropped markedly even in Verne 's home country, with abridged versions aimed directly at children taking their place. However, the decades after Verne 's death also saw the rise in France of the `` Jules Verne cult '', a steadily growing group of scholars and young writers who took Verne 's works seriously as literature and willingly noted his influence on their own pioneering works. Some of the cult founded the Société Jules Verne, the first academic society for Verne scholars ; many others became highly respected avant garde and surrealist literary figures in their own right. Their praise and analyses, emphasizing Verne 's stylistic innovations and enduring literary themes, proved highly influential for literary studies to come. In the 1960s and 1970s, thanks in large part to a sustained wave of serious literary study from well - known French scholars and writers, Verne 's reputation skyrocketed in France. Roland Barthes ' seminal essay `` Nautilus et Bateau Ivre '' ( `` The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat '' ) was influential in its exegesis of the Voyages extraordinares as a purely literary text, while book - length studies by such figures as Marcel Moré and Jean Chesneaux considered Verne from a multitude of thematic vantage points. French literary journals devoted entire issues to Verne and his work, with essays by such imposing literary figures as Michel Butor, Georges Borgeaud, Marcel Brion, Pierre Versins, Michel Foucault, René Barjavel, Marcel Lecomte, Francis Lacassin, and Michel Serres ; meanwhile, Verne 's entire published opus returned to print, with unabridged and illustrated editions of his works printed by Livre de Poche and Éditions Rencontre. The wave reached its climax in Verne 's sesquicentennial year 1978, when he was made the subject of an academic colloquium at the Centre culturel international de Cerisy - la - Salle, and Journey to the Center of the Earth was accepted for the French university system 's Agrégation reading list. Since these events, Verne has been consistently recognized in Europe as a legitimate member of the French literary canon, with academic studies and new publications steadily continuing. Verne 's reputation in English - speaking countries has been considerably slower in changing. Throughout the 20th century, most Anglophone scholars dismissed Verne as a genre writer for children and a naïve proponent of science and technology ( despite strong evidence to the contrary on both counts ), thus finding him more interesting as a technological `` prophet '' or as a subject of comparison to English - language writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and H.G. Wells than as a topic of literary study in his own right. This narrow view of Verne has undoubtedly been influenced by the poor - quality English translations and very loosely adapted Hollywood film versions through which most American and British readers have discovered Verne. However, since the mid-1980s a considerable number of serious English - language studies and translations have appeared, suggesting that a rehabilitation of Verne 's Anglophone reputation may currently be underway. English translations Translation of Verne into English began in 1852, when Verne 's short story `` A Voyage in a Balloon '' ( 1851 ) was published in the American journal Sartain 's Union Magazine of Literature and Art in a translation by Anne T. Wilbur. Translation of his novels began in 1869 with William Lackland 's translation of Five Weeks in a Balloon ( originally published in 1863 ), and continued steadily throughout Verne 's lifetime, with publishers and hired translators often working in great haste to rush his most lucrative titles into English - language print. Unlike Hetzel, who targeted all ages with his publishing strategies for the Voyages extraordinaires, the British and American publishers of Verne chose to market his books almost exclusively to young audiences ; this business move, with its implication that Verne could be treated purely as a children 's author, had a long - lasting effect on Verne 's reputation in English - speaking countries. An early edition of the notorious Griffith & Farran adaptation of Journey to the Center of the Earth These contemporaneous English - language translations have been widely criticized for their extensive textual omissions, errors, and alterations, and are not considered adequate representations of Verne 's actual novels. The British writer Adam Roberts, in an essay for The Guardian titled `` Jules Verne deserves a better translation service '', commented : `` I 'd always liked reading Jules Verne and I 've read most of his novels ; but it was n't until recently that I really understood I had n't been reading Jules Verne at all... It 's a bizarre situation for a world - famous writer to be in. Indeed, I ca n't think of a major writer who has been so poorly served by translation. '' Similarly, the American novelist Michael Crichton observed : Verne 's prose is lean and fast - moving in a peculiarly modern way... ( but ) Verne has been particularly ill - served by his English translators. At best they have provided us with clunky, choppy, tone - deaf prose. At worst -- as in the notorious 1872 `` translation '' ( of Journey to the Center of the Earth ) published by Griffith & Farran -- they have blithely altered the text, giving Verne 's characters new names, and adding whole pages of their own invention, thus effectively obliterating the meaning and tone of Verne 's original. Since 1965, a considerable number of more accurate English translations of Verne have appeared. However, the highly criticized older translations continue to be republished, due to their public domain status and in many cases their easy availability in online sources. Relationship with science fiction The relationship between Verne 's Voyages extraordinaires and the literary genre science fiction is a complex one. Verne, like H.G. Wells, is frequently cited as one of the founders of the genre, and his profound influence on its development is indisputable ; however, many earlier writers, such as Lucian of Samosata and Mary Shelley, have also been cited as creators of science fiction, an unavoidable ambiguity arising from the vague definition and history of the genre. A primary issue at the heart of the dispute is the question of whether Verne 's works count as science fiction to begin with. Maurice Renard claimed that Verne `` never wrote a single sentence of scientific - marvelous ''. Verne himself argued repeatedly in interviews that his novels were not meant to be read as scientific, saying `` I have invented nothing. '' His own goal was rather to `` depict the earth ( and ) at the same time to realize a very high ideal of beauty of style '', as he pointed out in an example : I wrote Five Weeks in a Balloon, not as a story about ballooning, but as a story about Africa. I always was greatly interested in geography and travel, and I wanted to give a romantic description of Africa. Now, there was no means of taking my travellers through Africa otherwise than in a balloon, and that is why a balloon is introduced.... I may say that at the time I wrote the novel, as now, I had no faith in the possibility of ever steering balloons... Closely related to Verne 's science - fiction reputation is the often - repeated claim that he is a `` prophet '' of scientific progress, and that many of his novels involve elements of technology that were fantastic for his day but later became commonplace. These claims have a long history, especially in America, but the modern scholarly consensus is that such claims of prophecy are heavily exaggerated. As with science fiction, Verne himself flatly denied that he was a futuristic prophet, saying that any connection between scientific developments and his work was `` mere coincidence '' and attributing his indisputable scientific accuracy to his extensive research : `` even before I began writing stories, I always took numerous notes out of every book, newspaper, magazine, or scientific report that I came across. '' Because Verne only focused on technology and principles that were scientifically possible, or assumed to be possible, novels like From the Earth to the Moon and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea belongs in the subgenre known as mundane science fiction. Legacy Monument to Jules Verne in Redondela, Spain Main article : Cultural influence of Jules Verne Verne 's novels have had a wide influence on both literary and scientific works ; writers known to have been influenced by Verne include Marcel Aymé, Roland Barthes, René Barjavel, Michel Butor, Blaise Cendrars, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau, François Mauriac, Raymond Roussel, Claude Roy, Antoine Saint - Exupéry, and Jean - Paul Sartre, while scientists and explorers who acknowledged Verne 's inspiration have included Richard E. Byrd, Yuri Gagarin, Simon Lake, Hubert Lyautey, Guglielmo Marconi, Fridtjof Nansen, Wernher von Braun, and Jack Parsons. He is credited with helping inspire the steampunk genre, a literary and social movement that glamorizes science fiction based on 19th - century technology. Ray Bradbury summed up Verne 's influence on literature and science the world over by saying : `` We are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne. '' Notes Footnotes Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 1 : `` On his mother 's side, Verne is known to be descended from one ' N. Allott, Scotsman ', who came to France to serve in the Scots Guards of Louis XI and rose to earn a title ( in 1462 ). He built his castle, complete with dovecote or fuye ( a privilege in the royal gift ), near Loudun in Anjou and took the noble name of Allotte de la Fuye. '' References ^ Jump up to : Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Jump up ^ `` Verne ''. Random House Webster 's Unabridged Dictionary. Jump up ^ Angenot 1973, p. 34. ^ Jump up to : Evans 2000, p. 33. Jump up ^ UNESCO 2013. ^ Jump up to : Roberts, Adam ( 2000 ), Science Fiction, London : Routledge, p. 48 Jump up ^ Butcher 2006, pp. 5 -- 6. ^ Jump up to : Butcher 2007. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 3. Jump up ^ Allotte de la Fuÿe 1956, p. 20. ^ Jump up to : Lottmann 1996, p. 9. ^ Jump up to : Terres d'écrivains 2003. ^ Jump up to : Verne 1890, § 2. Jump up ^ Compère 1997b, p. 35. Jump up ^ Allotte de la Fuÿe 1956, p. 26. Jump up ^ Pérez, de Vries & Margot 2008, C9. ^ Jump up to : Lottmann 1996, p. 17. Jump up ^ Compère 1997a, p. 20. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, p. 19. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 10. ^ Jump up to : Lottmann 1996, p. 14. Jump up ^ Martin 1973. Jump up ^ Compère 1997c, p. 41. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, pp. 14 -- 15. Jump up ^ Martin 1974. ^ Jump up to : Lottmann 1996, p. 24. Jump up ^ Chelebourg 1986. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, p. 16. Jump up ^ Verne 2000. Jump up ^ Compère 1997c, p. 42. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 12. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 17. ^ Jump up to : Sherard 1894, § 3. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, p. 32. ^ Jump up to : Lottmann 1996, p. 25. Jump up ^ Dumas 1988, p. 372 : `` Je suis bien Allotte sous le rapport de l'estomac. '' Jump up ^ Dumas 2000, p. 51 : `` La paralysie faciale de Jules Verne n'est pas psychosomatique, mais due seulement à une inflammation de l'oreille moyenne dont l'œdème comprime le nerf facial correspondant. Le médiocre chauffage du logement de l'étudiant entraîne la fréquence de ses refroidissements. L'explication de cette infirmité reste ignorée de l'écrivain ; il vit dans la permanente inquiétude d'un dérèglement nerveux, aboutissant à la folie. '' ^ Jump up to : Lottmann 1996, p. 29. ^ Jump up to : Evans 1988, p. 17. Jump up ^ Dekiss & Dehs 1999, p. 29. ^ Jump up to : Lottmann 1996, p. 37. ^ Jump up to : Evans 1988, p. 18. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, pp. 53, 58. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 27. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, p. 38. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, pp. 46 -- 47. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, p. 47. Jump up ^ Dekiss & Dehs 1999, pp. 30 -- 31. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, pp. 39 -- 40. Jump up ^ Margot 2005, p. 151. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, p. 57. ^ Jump up to : Lottmann 1996, p. 58. ^ Jump up to : Evans 1988, p. 19. Jump up ^ Evans 1988, pp. 18 -- 19. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 37. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, pp. 40 -- 41. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, pp. 66 -- 67. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, pp. 42 -- 43. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 44. ^ Jump up to : Lottmann 1996, pp. 76 -- 78. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, p. 79. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, p. 81 ; confusion regarding the year resolved with reference to Jules - Verne 1976, p. 54, Butcher 2007, and Pérez, de Vries & Margot 2008, B6. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 54. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, pp. 54 -- 55. Jump up ^ Evans 1988, pp. 23 -- 24. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 56. ^ Jump up to : Dehs, Margot & Har'El 2007, I Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, pp. 56 -- 57. Jump up ^ Evans 1988, pp. 29 -- 30. ^ Jump up to : Sherard 1894, § 4. Jump up ^ Evans 1988, p. 30. Jump up ^ Evans 2001, pp. 98 -- 99. Jump up ^ Lottmann 1996, pp. 101 -- 103. Jump up ^ Evans 1995, p. 44. Jump up ^ Evans 2001, pp. 100 -- 101. Jump up ^ Jules - Verne 1976, p. 9 : `` After about 1870, Verne was less and less subservient to the discipline of the Church : his wife went to Mass without him and his views broadened into a kind of Christian - based deism. '' Jump up ^ Costello 1978, p. 34. Jump up ^ Verne 2007, p. 412. Jump up ^ Oliver 2012, p. 22. Jump up ^ Lynch, Lawrence ( 1992 ). Twayne 's World Authors Series 832. Jules Verne. New York : Twayne Publishers. p. 12. access - date = requires url = ( help ) Jump up ^ Vallois, Thirza. `` Travel to Amiens : Follow in the Footsteps of Author Jules Verne ''. France Today. France Media Ltd. Retrieved May 5, 2017. Jump up ^ Dehs, Margot & Har'El 2007, X. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, pp. 11 -- 12. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, pp. 12 -- 13. ^ Jump up to : Evans 2000, p. 14. Jump up ^ Sherard 1894, § 1. Jump up ^ Sherard 1894, § 6. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, p. 15. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, pp. 22 -- 23. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, p. 23. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, pp. 24 -- 6. Jump up ^ Angenot 1976, p. 46. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, p. 29. Jump up ^ Angenot 1973, pp. 35 -- 36. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, pp. 29 -- 30. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, pp. 32 -- 33. ^ Jump up to : Butcher 1983. ^ Jump up to : Miller, Walter James ( 2009 ), `` As Verne Smiles '', Verniana, 1, retrieved 21 March 2013 Jump up ^ Evans 2000, p. 34. Jump up ^ Evans 2005b, p. 117. Jump up ^ Evans 2005b, p. 105. ^ Jump up to : Evans 2005a, p. 80. Jump up ^ Evans 2005a, p. 117. ^ Jump up to : Roberts, Adam ( 11 September 2007 ), `` Jules Verne deserves a better translation service '', The Guardian, London : Guardian News and Media Limited, retrieved 16 March 2013 ^ Jump up to : Crichton, Michael ( 2001 ), `` Introduction '' ( PDF ), in Verne, Jules, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, London : Folio Society, pp. vii -- xxii, retrieved 15 March 2013 Jump up ^ Renard, Maurice ( November 1994 ), `` On the Scientific - Marvelous Novel and Its Influence on the Understanding of Progress '', Science Fiction Studies, 21 ( 64 ), retrieved 25 January 2016 Jump up ^ Sherard 1903, § 5. Jump up ^ Evans 1988, p. 1. Jump up ^ Evans 1988, p. 2. Jump up ^ Belloc 1895. Jump up ^ Evans 2000, p. 24. Jump up ^ Pendle 2005, pp. 33 -- 40, 42 -- 43. Jump up ^ Teague 2013, p. 28. Jump up ^ Percec 2014, p. 220. Jump up ^ Bradbury, Ray ( 1990 ), `` Introduction '', in Butcher, William, Verne 's Journey to the Centre of the Self, London : Macmillan, p. xiii, retrieved 11 May 2014 Citations Allotte de la Fuÿe, Marguerite ( 1956 ), Jules Verne, sa vie, son oeuvre, translated by Erik de Mauny, New York : Coward - McCann Angenot, Marc ( Spring 1973 ), `` Jules Verne and French Literary Criticism '', Science Fiction Studies, I ( 1 ) : 33 -- 37, retrieved 25 March 2013 Angenot, Marc ( March 1976 ), `` Jules Verne and French Literary Criticism ( II ) '', Science Fiction Studies, III ( 8 ) : 46 -- 49, retrieved 26 March 2013 Belloc, Marie A. ( February 1895 ), `` Jules Verne at Home '', Strand Magazine, retrieved 4 April 2013 Butcher, William ( 1983 ), Jules Verne, Prophet or Poet ?, Paris : Publications de l'INSEE, retrieved 26 March 2013 Butcher, William ( 2006 ), Jules Verne : The Definitive Biography, New York : Thunder 's Mouth Press Butcher, William ( 2007 ), `` A Chronology of Jules Verne '', Jules Verne Collection, Zvi Har'El, retrieved 3 March 2013 Chelebourg, Christian ( 1986 ), `` Le blanc et le noir. Amour et mort dans les `` Voyages extraordinaires '' ``, Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne, 77 : 22 -- 30 Compère, Cecile ( 1997a ), `` Jules Verne de Nantes '', Revue Jules Verne, 4 : 11 -- 24 Compère, Cecile ( 1997b ), `` Les vacances '', Revue Jules Verne, 4 : 33 -- 36 Compère, Cecile ( 1997c ), `` Le Paris de Jules Verne '', Revue Jules Verne, 4 : 41 -- 54 Costello, Peter ( 1978 ), Jules Verne, Inventor of Science Fiction, New York : Scribner Dehs, Volker ; Margot, Jean - Michel ; Har'El, Zvi ( 2007 ), `` The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography '', Jules Verne Collection, Zvi Har'El, retrieved 28 March 2013 Dekiss, Jean - Paul ; Dehs, Volker ( 1999 ), Jules Verne, l'enchanteur, Paris : Editions du Félin Dumas, Olivier ( 1988 ), Jules Verne : avec la publication de la correspondance inédite de Jules Verne à sa famille, Lyon : La Manufacture Dumas, Olivier ( 2000 ), Voyage à travers Jules Verne, Montreal : Stanke Evans, Arthur B. ( 1988 ), Jules Verne rediscovered : didacticism and the scientific novel, New York : Greenwood Press Evans, Arthur B. ( March 1995 ), `` The `` New '' Jules Verne ``, Science Fiction Studies, XXII : 1 ( 65 ) : 35 -- 46 Evans, Arthur B. ( 2000 ), `` Jules Verne and the French Literary Canon '', in Smyth, Edmund J., Jules Verne : Narratives of Modernity, Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, pp. 11 -- 39, retrieved 25 March 2013 Evans, Arthur B. ( March 2001 ), `` Hetzel and Verne : Collaboration and Conflict '', Science Fiction Studies, 1, XXVIII ( 83 ) : 97 -- 106, retrieved 12 June 2013 Evans, Arthur B. ( March 2005a ), `` Jules Verne 's English Translations '', Science Fiction Studies, 1, XXXII ( 95 ) : 80 -- 104, retrieved 6 September 2012 Evans, Arthur B. ( March 2005b ), `` A Bibliography of Jules Verne 's English Translations '', Science Fiction Studies, 1, XXXII ( 95 ) : 105 -- 141, retrieved 6 September 2012 Jules - Verne, Jean ( 1976 ), Jules Verne : a biography, translated by Roger Greaves, London : Macdonald and Jane 's Lottmann, Herbert R. ( 1996 ), Jules Verne : an exploratory biography, New York : St. Martin 's Press Margot, Jean - Michel ( March 2005 ), `` Jules Verne, Playwright '', Science Fiction Studies, 1, XXXII ( 95 ) : 150 -- 162, retrieved 15 March 2013 Martin, Charles - Noël ( 1973 ), `` Les amours de jeunesse de Jules Verne '', Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne, 28 : 79 -- 86 Martin, Charles - Noël ( 1974 ), `` Les amours de jeunesse de Jules Verne, 2e partie '', Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne, 29 : 103 -- 113 `` Nantes et Jules Verne '', Terres d'écrivains, L'association Terres d'écrivains, 28 August 2003, retrieved 23 February 2013 Oliver, Kendrick ( 2012 ), To Touch the Face of God : The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957 -- 1975, Baltimore : JHU Press Pendle, George ( 2005 ), Strange Angel : The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 978 - 0 - 7538 - 2065 - 0 Percec, Dana, ed. ( 2014 ), Reading the Fantastic Imagination : The Avatars of a Literary Genre, Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pérez, Ariel ; de Vries, Garmt ; Margot, Jean - Michel ( 2008 ), `` Jules Verne FAQ '', Jules Verne Collection, Zvi Har'El, retrieved 26 March 2013 Sherard, Robert H. ( January 1894 ), `` Jules Verne at Home '', McClure 's Magazine, retrieved 5 March 2013 Sherard, Robert H. ( 9 October 1903 ), `` Jules Verne Re-visited '', T.P. 's Weekly, retrieved 21 April 2013 UNESCO ( 2013 ), `` Statistics : ' Top 50 ' Author '', Index Translationum, UNESCO Culture Sector, retrieved 6 August 2013 ; statistics on Index Translationum database ( 1979 -- present, updates processed upon receipt from UNESCO members states ) Teague, Gypsey Elaine ( 2013 ), Steampunk Magic : Working Magic Aboard the Airship, Weiser Books, ASIN B00B7KWQ36 Verne, Jules ( 1890 ), `` Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse '', Jules Verne Collection, Zvi Har'El, retrieved 3 March 2013 Verne, Jules ( 2000 ), `` La sixieme ville de France '', Le Tour de Verne en 80 Mots, Gilles Carpentier, retrieved 3 March 2013 Verne, Jules ( 2007 ), The Kip Brothers, translated by Stanford Luce, edited by Arthur B. Evans, introduction and notes by Jean - Michel Margot, Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press External links Find more aboutJules Verneat Wikipedia 's sister projects Media from Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Texts from Wikisource Data from Wikidata Jules Verne at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Jules Verne at Internet Archive Works by Jules Verne at LibriVox ( public domain audiobooks ) Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection, including a complete primary bibliography, a collection of academic scholarship, a Verne chronology, and a multilingual virtual library Annotated bibliography with summaries of Verne 's works Jules Verne 's works with concordances and frequency list A Jules Verne Centennial at the Smithsonian Institution The Jules Verne Collecting Resource with sources, images, and ephemera Maps from Verne 's books Jules Verne Biography The Jules Verne Museum in Nantes The North American Jules Verne Society Centre International Jules Verne `` Jules Verne biography ''. Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Jules Verne Collection From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress Works by Jules Verne Voyages extraordinaires Five Weeks in a Balloon ( 1863 ) Journey to the Center of the Earth ( 1864 ) From the Earth to the Moon ( 1865 ) The Adventures of Captain Hatteras ( 1866 ) In Search of the Castaways ( 1867 -- 68 ) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ( 1869 -- 70 ) Around the Moon ( 1870 ) A Floating City ( 1871 ) The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa ( 1872 ) The Fur Country ( 1873 ) Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1873 ) The Mysterious Island ( 1874 -- 75 ) The Survivors of the Chancellor ( 1875 ) Michael Strogoff ( 1876 ) Off on a Comet ( 1877 ) The Child of the Cavern ( 1877 ) Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 ) The Begum 's Fortune ( 1879 ) Tribulations of a Chinaman in China ( 1879 ) The Steam House ( 1880 ) Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon ( 1881 ) Godfrey Morgan ( 1882 ) The Green Ray ( 1882 ) Kéraban the Inflexible ( 1883 ) The Vanished Diamond ( 1884 ) The Archipelago on Fire ( 1884 ) Mathias Sandorf ( 1885 ) The Lottery Ticket ( 1886 ) Robur the Conqueror ( 1886 ) North Against South ( 1887 ) The Flight to France ( 1887 ) Two Years ' Vacation ( 1888 ) Family Without a Name ( 1889 ) The Purchase of the North Pole ( 1889 ) César Cascabel ( 1890 ) Mistress Branican ( 1891 ) The Carpathian Castle ( 1892 ) Claudius Bombarnac ( 1892 ) Foundling Mick ( 1893 ) Captain Antifer ( 1894 ) Propeller Island ( 1895 ) Facing the Flag ( 1896 ) Clovis Dardentor ( 1896 ) An Antarctic Mystery ( 1897 ) The Mighty Orinoco ( 1898 ) The Will of an Eccentric ( 1899 ) The Castaways of the Flag ( 1900 ) The Village in the Treetops ( 1901 ) The Sea Serpent ( 1901 ) The Kip Brothers ( 1902 ) Travel Scholarships ( 1903 ) A Drama in Livonia ( 1904 ) Master of the World ( 1904 ) Invasion of the Sea ( 1905 ) Other works Novels The Waif of the Cynthia ( 1885 ) The Lighthouse at the End of the World ( 1905 ) The Golden Volcano ( 1906 ) The Chase of the Golden Meteor ( 1908 ) The Danube Pilot ( 1908 ) The Survivors of the `` Jonathan '' ( 1909 ) The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz ( 1910 ) The Barsac Mission ( 1919 ) Backwards to Britain ( 1989, written 1859 ) Paris in the Twentieth Century ( 1994, written 1863 ) Collections Doctor Ox ( 1874 ) Yesterday and Tomorrow ( 1910 ) Short stories `` A Drama in Mexico '' ( 1851 ) `` A Drama in the Air '' ( 1851 ) `` Martin Paz '' ( 1852 ) `` Master Zacharius '' ( 1854 ) `` A Winter amid the Ice '' ( 1855 ) `` The Count of Chanteleine '' ( 1864 ) `` The Blockade Runners '' ( 1865 ) `` Dr. Ox 's Experiment '' ( 1872 ) `` An Ideal City '' ( 1875 ) `` The Mutineers of the Bounty '' ( 1879 ) `` Ten Hours Hunting '' ( 1881 ) `` Frritt - Flacc '' ( 1884 ) `` Gil Braltar '' ( 1887 ) `` In the Year 2889 '' ( 1889 ) `` Adventures of the Rat Family '' ( 1891 ) `` Mr. Ray Sharp and Miss Me Flat '' ( 1893 ) `` The Eternal Adam '' ( 1910 ) Plays The Broken Straws ( 1850 ) Mona Lisa ( 1852 ) Blind Man 's Buff ( 1853 ) The Adoptive Son ( 1853 Knights of the Daffodil ( 1855 ) Mr. Chimpanzee ( 1858 ) The Inn in the Ardennes ( 1860 ) Eleven Days ' Siege ( 1861 ) A Nephew from America ( 1873 ) Around the World in 80 Days ( 1874 ) The Children of Captain Grant ( 1878 ) Michael Strogoff ( 1880 ) Journey Through the Impossible ( 1882 ) Kéraban the Pigheaded ( 1883 ) Related The Thompson Travel Agency by Michel Verne ( 1907 ) Universe Characters Aouda Tom Ayrton David Farragut Phileas Fogg Lord Glenarvan Captain Nemo Jacques Paganel Jean Passepartout Cyrus Smith Universe Leyden ball Nautilus HMS Sword Book Associated subjects Jules Verne 's Journey to the Center of the Earth Films 1959 film 1978 film 1989 film 2008 TV film 2008 Asylum film 2008 theatrical film Other 1967 series 1999 miniseries 1974 album 2008 video game Journey 2 : The Mysterious Island Journey Through the Impossible Jules Verne 's From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon Film versions A Trip to the Moon ( 1902 ) From the Earth to the Moon ( 1958 ) Jules Verne 's Rocket to the Moon ( 1967 ) Other media Le voyage dans la lune ( operetta ) A Trip to the Moon ( TV film ) Space Mountain : Mission 2 ( ride ) Voyage : Inspired by Jules Verne ( video game ) Autour de la Lune ( album ) From the Earth to the Moon ( miniseries ) Le voyage dans la lune ( album ) Related works by Verne Journey Through the Impossible The Purchase of the North Pole Jules Verne 's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Characters David Farragut Captain Nemo Films Under the Seas ( 1907 ) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1916 ) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1954 ) Captain Nemo and the Underwater City ( 1969 ) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1985 ) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( Village Roadshow ) ( 1997 ) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( Hallmark ) ( 1997 ) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( 2003 ) 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 2007 ) Television Tales of Adventure ( 1952 ) The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo ( 1975 ) The Return of Captain Nemo ( 1978 ) Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water ( 1990 ) The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne ( 2000 ) Other Nautilus The Mysterious Island Journey Through the Impossible ( play ) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea : Submarine Voyage ( attraction ) The Secret of the Nautilus ( video game ) Captain Nemo ( manga ) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( graphic novel ) The Wreck of the Titan ( audio ) Legend of the Cybermen ( audio ) `` Captain Nemo ( song ) '' List of adaptations Jules Verne 's Around the World in Eighty Days Characters Aouda Phileas Fogg Jean Passepartout Films Around the World in 80 Days ( 1919 ) Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ) Around the World in 80 Days ( 1988 ) Around the World in 80 Days ( 2004 ) Television Around the World in 80 Days ( 1972 -- 1973 ) Around the World with Willy Fog ( 1983 ) Around the World in 80 Days ( 1989 ) Michael Palin : Around the World in 80 Days ( 1989 ) Around the World in 80 Days ( 2009 ) Video games Around the World in 80 Days 80 Days ( 2005 ) 80 Days ( 2014 ) Other Around the World ( musical ) Around the World in 80 Days ( ride ) Around the World in 80 Days ( game ) `` Around the World '' ( song ) Around the World in 80 Days ( Michael Palin book ) The Other Log of Phileas Fogg Around the World in 20 Years Around the World in Seventy - Two Days A Boy Scout Around the World Tweety 's High - Flying Adventure Jules Verne 's The Mysterious Island Characters Cyrus Smith Tom Ayrton Captain Nemo Films 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1916 ) The Mysterious Island ( 1929 ) Mysterious Island ( 1941 ) Mysterious Island ( 1951 serial ) Mysterious Island ( 1961 ) Mysterious Island ( 2005 ) Journey 2 : The Mysterious Island ( 2012 ) Mysterious Island ( 2012 ) Television La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo Mysterious Island Games Myst Return to Mysterious Island Return to Mysterious Island 2 Series In Search of the Castaways Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Related Captain Nemo : The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius Mysterious Island ( Tokyo DisneySea ) The Stolen Airship Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water Nautilus Jules Verne 's Michael Strogoff Films Michel Strogoff ( 1926 ) The Soldier and the Lady ( 1937 ) Michel Strogoff ( 1956 ) Strogoff ( 1970 ) TV Michel Strogoff ( 1976 ) Jules Verne 's In Search of the Castaways Characters Tom Ayrton Lord Glenarvan Jacques Paganel Films The Children of Captain Grant ( 1936 ) In Search of the Castaways ( 1962 ) Television In Search for Captain Grant ( 1986 miniseries ) Sequel The Mysterious Island Science fiction portal French literature portal Novels portal Brittany portal Biography portal VIAF : 76323989 LCCN : n79064013 ISNI : 0000 0001 2140 0562 GND : 118626620 SELIBR : 99594 SUDOC : 027181685 BNF : cb11928016k ( data ) BIBSYS : 90056052 ULAN : 500253402 MusicBrainz : c547fc86 - 22c6 - 4056 - ae83 - ba976f510ec5 NLA : 35580378 NDL : 00459687 NKC : jn19990008769 Léonore : LH / 2692 / 1 ICCU : IT ICCU CFIV 000569 RLS : 000081006 BNE : XX1719615 CiNii : DA01098394 IATH : w6wq0434 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jules_Verne&oldid=806858947 '' Categories : Jules Verne 1828 births 1905 deaths People from Nantes Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur French deists French people of Scottish descent 19th - century French poets French science fiction writers Breton writers Maritime writers Writers from Pays de la Loire Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees Stockbrokers 19th - century French novelists 20th - century French novelists Deaths from diabetes French male novelists 19th - century French dramatists and playwrights Members of the Ligue de la patrie française Hidden categories : Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL Pages using Infobox writer with unknown parameters All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from June 2013 Articles with unsourced statements from April 2017 Articles with Internet Archive links Articles with LibriVox links AC with 19 elements Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SBN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikiquote Wikisource Afrikaans አማርኛ Aragonés Armãneashti Asturianu Aymar aru Azərbaycanca تۆرکجه বাংলা Bân - lâm - gú Башҡортса Беларуская Беларуская ( тарашкевіца ) ‎ Bikol Central Български Bosanski Brezhoneg Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Estremeñu Euskara فارسی Français Frysk Gaeilge Galego 한국어 Հայերեն हिन्दी Hrvatski Ido Bahasa Indonesia Interlingua Interlingue Ирон Íslenska Italiano עברית Basa Jawa ქართული Қазақша Кыргызча Latina Latviešu Lëtzebuergesch Lietuvių Limburgs Magyar Македонски Malagasy മലയാളം मराठी მარგალური مصرى مازِرونی Монгол မြန်မာဘာသာ Nederlands नेपाल भाषा 日本 語 Nordfriisk Norsk Norsk nynorsk Occitan Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Picard Piemontèis Plattdüütsch Polski Português Română Rumantsch Runa Simi Русский Scots Seeltersk Shqip Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Ślůnski کوردی Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska Tagalog தமிழ் Taqbaylit Татарча / tatarça ไทย Тоҷикӣ Türkçe Українська اردو ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche Tiếng Việt Winaray Yorùbá 粵語 Zazaki Žemaitėška 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 24 October 2017, at 16 : 05. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: when did jules verne wrote his first book
Answer: 31 January 1863