Description
Includes an Introduction by Stephen Baxter
and an Afterword by Walter James Miller
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 10/05/2010
Pages: 438
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 6.68h x 4.18w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780451531698
ISBN10: 0451531698
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
About the Author
Jules Verne, born in Nantes, France, in 1828, of legal and seafaring stock, was the author of innumerable adventure stories that combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science. Although he studied law at Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular stories, besides 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), include: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), and The Mysterious Island (1874). In addition, he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80). After a long and active career in literature, Jules Verne died in Amiens, France, in 1905.