Around The World In Eighty Days

Jules Gabriel Verne was a prolific writer. He is often referred to as the father of the science fiction literary genre. Verne first published “Around the world in eighty days” in french in 1872. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and of course Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).

His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.