Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne (1828-1905)

The father of science fiction, poet and playwright who conquered readers around the world.

Born on the island of Fido in Nantes, France, he came from a privileged family since he was a child. His father was a lawyer. As a student, Verne excelled in geography, vocal music, Greek and Latin. He was passionate about adventure, fantasy, and reading, and began literary creation.

He studied law in Paris and met the literary master Dumas and his son when he participated in a literary salon. After receiving a bachelor's degree in law at the age of 21, he stayed in Paris. The one-act comedy "The Broken Straw" he created the following year was performed and published at Dumas's Historic Theater.

At the age of 35, he published the science fiction novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon" and became famous in one fell swoop. After that, he published "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "From the Earth to the Moon", "Captain Grant's Children", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "Around the World in Eighty Days". ""Mysterious Island" and a series of masterpieces that have amazed the world. Verne's works are full of extraordinary imagination and astonishing. Today they have become recognized as insurmountable science fiction classics. Many explorers, artists, and scientists have even been inspired by his works and completed breakthroughs that promoted human progress.

After Verne's death, the French government set up a museum for him on an island not far from Nantes, and built a Mechanical Island Paradise based on his imagination that fascinated all children. On the Verne monument, his name and this sentence are engraved: "Toward immortality and eternal youth."