The New Student's Reference Work/Verne, Jules

Verne (vârn), Jules, a French writer, was born at Nantes, Feb. 8, 1814. He first wrote plays and opera pieces, and for some time was connected with a theater. His wild and improbable stories have most of them been translated into English. The first one to make him known, published in 1863, was Five Weeks in a Balloon. It was based on modern science and had an air of reality. His other writings, except an illustrated geography of France, are of the same character. His works include A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon and Around the World in Eighty Days. He died at Amiens on March 24, 1905.