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Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His 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 are often reprinted. 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 and Hugo Gernsback.

Verne's largest body of work is the Voyages extraordinaires series, which includes all of his novels except for the two rejected manuscripts Paris in the Twentieth Century and Backwards to Britain (published posthumously in 1994 and 1989, respectively) and for projects left unfinished at his death (many of which would be posthumously adapted or rewritten for publication by his son Michel). Verne also wrote many plays, poems, song texts, operetta libretti, and short stories, as well as a variety of essays and miscellaneous non-fiction.

The relationship between Verne's Voyages extraordinaires and the literary genre science fiction is a complex one. Verne, like H. G. Wells, is frequently cited as one of the founders of the genre, and his profound influence on its development is indisputable; however, many earlier writers, such as Lucian of Samosata and Mary Shelley, have also been cited as creators of science fiction, an unavoidable ambiguity arising from the vague definition and history of the genre.

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Voyages Extraordinaires

Novels

1. Five Weeks in a Balloon
2. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth
4. From the Earth to the Moon
5. In Search of the Castaways
6. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
7. Around the Moon
8. A Floating City
9. The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
10. The Fur Country
11. Around the World in Eighty Days
12. The Mysterious Island
13. The Survivors of the Chancellor
14. Michael Strogoff
15. Off on a Comet
16. The Child of the Cavern
17. Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
18. The Begum's Fortune
19. Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
20. The Steam House
21. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
22. Godfrey Morgan
23. The Green Ray
24. Kéraban the Inflexible
25. The Vanished Diamond
26. The Archipelago on Fire
27. Mathias Sandorf
28. The Lottery Ticket
29. Robur the Conqueror
30. North Against South
31. The Flight to France
32. Two Years' Vacation
33. Family Without a Name
34. The Purchase of the North Pole
35. César Cascabel
36. Mistress Branican
37. Carpathian Castle
38. Claudius Bombarnac
39. Foundling Mick
40. Captain Antifer
41. Propeller Island
42. Facing the Flag
43. Clovis Dardentor
44. An Antarctic Mystery
45. The Mighty Orinoco
46. The Will of an Eccentric
47. The Castaways of the Flag
48. The Village in the Treetops
49. The Sea Serpent
50. The Kip Brothers
51. Travel Scholarships
52. A Drama in Livonia
53. Master of the World
54. Invasion of the Sea