In our Portrait series :
Jules Verne (1828 – 1905) was a prolific French writer celebrated worldwide for his immense imagination. Most of his work consists of adventure novels evoking the scientific progress of the 19th century.
Notable works include:
Five Weeks in a Balloon , The Adventures of Captain Hatteras , Journey to the Centre of the Earth , Captain Grant’s Children , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , From the Earth to the Moon , Around the World in Eighty Days , Michel Strogoff, The Begum’s Five Hundred Million, The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China, Robinsons School, and many others.