VERNE, JULES, a French novelist;
born in Nantes, France, Feb. 8, 1828. He
studied law for some time, but afterward
began writing short pieces for the stage.
In 1863 he published “Five Weeks in a
Balloon,” and the vein of the marvelous,
tinged with a quasi-scientific truthfulness,
was worked by him with great
success. His more popular works are:
“Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea,” “From the Earth to the Moon,”
“Across Africa in a Balloon,” “Michel
Strogoff,” “To the Center of the Earth,"
“Round the World in Eighty Days,”
“The Mysterious Island,” etc. Most of
his works have been translated. He died
at Amiens, March 23, 1905.
