Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist famous for his well-documented novels set in the second half of the nineteenth century, including "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864) and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" (1870). Besides novels, he also produced many short stories, plays, poems, literary studies, and autobiographical accounts. Verne had a significant impact on surrealism and the literary avant-garde in France and Europe, and is consi...