His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires , [ 3 ] a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas , and Around the World in Eighty Days His novels, always well-researched according to the scientific knowledge then available, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.
In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games.
Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. Since the s, his literary reputation has improved. Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since , ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakespeare.
Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In France, was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death. Three sisters, Anne "Anna" , Mathilde , and Marie , followed. In , at the age of six, Verne was sent to boarding school at 5 Place du Bouffay in Nantes.
The teacher, Madame Sambin, was the widow of a naval captain who had disappeared some 30 years before. 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 and Robur the Conqueror , respectively.
