A French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. A widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction", along with H. G. Wells. Verne is the second most translated author of all time, only behind Agatha Christie. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.ContentsTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasThe Mysterious IslandA Journey to the Center of the EarthAround the World in Eighty DaysDick Sand, or A Captain at FifteenCelebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World (1882)Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part II. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century (1880)Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century (1881)The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1874)Facing the Flag (1897)The Fur Country or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (1873)Godfrey Morgan (1883)The Moon-Voyage (1873)The Mysterious Island (1874)The Pearl of Lima (1853)Robur the Conqueror or The Clipper of the Clouds (1886)20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (2nd version) (1871)The Secret of the Island (1874)The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)Ticket No. 9672 (1886)Topsy-Turvy (1889)A Voyage in a Balloon (1852)The Waif of the 'Cynthia' (1885)A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories (1877)Off on a CometFrom the Earth to the MoonRound The MoonIn the Year 2889AbandonedFive Weeks in a Balloon, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three EnglishmenAll Around the MoonAn Antarctic MysteryEight Hundred Leagues on the AmazonThe Master of the WorldIn Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain GrantMichael Strogoff, or, The Courier of the CzarThe Underground City; Or, The Black IndiesThe Blockade RunnersThe Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries (1894)Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World (1882)This narrative will comprehend not only all the explorations made in past ages, but also all the new discoveries which have of late years so greatly interested the scientific world. (Translated by Dora Leigh.)The Mysterious Island (1874)The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Begining in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in a rather unusual way – by hijacking a balloon! This is only the beginning of their adventures...The Pearl of Lima (1853)A romance covering Peru's colonialist heritage.Robur the Conqueror or The Clipper of the Clouds (1886)In Robur, the Conqueror Verne produces an aerial parallel to the famous "Nautilus," in which Capt. Nemo journeyed so many thousand leagues under the sea. Robur the Conqueror devises an aerial machine called the Albatross, which can be driven 70 miles an hour in the teeth of the wind, and can be managed and steered in any atmospheric conditions, barring the centre of a revolving hurricane. It is an ingenious story, and the sham science with which it is padded gives it an air of sobriety and reality to the average reader. The Secret of the Island (1874)This book is a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. A party of British adventurers, who had been ballooning, but whose trip had ended by being cast away on a Pacific island, have various setbacks due to both pirates and convicts who had escaped from jails in mainland Australasia. They realise that at times there appears to be some kind of entity that is looking after them.Translated by W.H.G. Kingston.The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)Shipwrecks occur in other of Verne's tales; but this is his only story devoted wholly to such a disaster. In it the author has gathered all the tragedy, the mystery, and the suffering possible to the sea. All the various forms of disaster, all the possibilities of horror, the depths of shame and agony, are heaped upon these unhappy voyagers. The accumulation is mathematically complete and emotionally unforgettable. The tale has well been called the "imperishable epic of shipwreck."