Jules Verne | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-07

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00:01:25 1 Life
00:01:34 1.1 Early life
00:08:57 1.2 Studies in Paris
00:13:05 1.3 Literary debut
00:19:36 1.4 Family
00:22:51 1.5 Hetzel
00:29:35 1.6 Later years
00:30:55 1.7 Death and posthumous publications
00:32:18 2 Works
00:33:06 2.1 Literary reception
00:38:46 2.2 English translations
00:41:35 2.3 Relationship with science fiction
00:44:50 3 Legacy
00:46:03 4 Notes



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Jules Gabriel Verne (; French: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
Verne's 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 have often been printed.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, Mary Shelley, and Hugo Gernsback.