Jules Gabriel Verne was born in France, and sent to boarding school with his brother when he was young. At the age of 20, he began writing libretti for operettas, where his talent for writing was discovered. More than his stage work, people enjoyed his tales of travel. He published his first novel, "Five Weeks in a Balloon," in 1863, and continued to write fanciful stories until the death of his mother and nephew sent him into a dark period of writing. Two of Verne's novels were published after his death in 1905, and one, discovered by his great-grandson in 1989, was published in 1994 under the title "Paris in the 20th Century."

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Available books:

• The Adventures of a Special Correspondent
• All Around the Moon
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Dick Sand of A Captain at Fifteen
• Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• Facing the Flag
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
• From the Earth to the Moon
• In Search of the Castaways
• A Journey to the Center of the Earth
• The Master of the World
• Michael Strogoff
• The Moon Voyage
• The Mysterious Island
• The Mysterious Island
• Off On a Comet
• Robut the Conqueror
• The Survivors of the Chancellor
• Ticket No. "9672"
• Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• The Underground City
• A Voyage in a Balloon (1852)
• The Waif of the "Cynthia"