Male : Novelist & Science Fiction writer. Often referred to as the "Founding Father" of Science Fiction. In 1856 married widow with two children

Nationality : French Place of Birth : Nantes

Date of Birth : 1828 Date of Death : 1905 Age : 77

Other Work : Stockbroker

1863-1875
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863 Hetzel) (1869 Appleton US) (1870 Chapman & Hall)
[Filmed in 1962]
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) (1872 Griffith & Farran)
[Filmed in 1959]
All UK editions below published by Sampson Low
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) (1873) (1875 Osgood)
[Filmed in 1954]
From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes, and a Trip Round it (1873)
(1874 Scribner NY)
[Filmed in 1958]
Meridiana : The Adventures of Three Englishmen, and Three Russians in South Africa (1873)
(1873 Scribner)
The Fur Country, or Seventy Degrees North Latitude (1873) (1873 Osgood)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873 Osgood, Boston) (1873)
[Filmed in 1956]
In Search of the Castaways (1873 Lippincott)
[Filmed in 1961]
(in UK as "A Voyage Round the World" 1876-7 Routledge - 3 vols)
(Serialised In) Every Boy's Annual (nd. Routledge)
Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth (1874 Henry L Shepard, Boston)
From the Clouds to the Mountains (1874 Gill, Boston)
A Floating City And The Blockade Runners (1874) (1875 Scribner, Armstrong NY) (1876 Routledge)
[A Floating City was Verne's account of a voyage of the "Great Eastern" ship]
Dr Ox's Experiment and Other Stories (1874 Osgood) (1874 Sampson Low)
The Mysterious Island (1875) (1875-6 Scribners, Armstrong) : comprising three volumes :
Dropped from the Clouds, Abandoned, & The Secret of the Island
[Filmed in 1961]
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras : The English at the North Pole (1875 Routledge)
(1875 Osgood) - Riou
The Chancellor : The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875 Sampson Low) (1875 Osgood)

1876-1880
The Field of Ice (1876 Routledge) - Riou
Martin Paz (1876 Routledge)
A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Stories (1876)
A Voyage Around the World (1876-77) - Comprising 3 vols:
South America, Australia, and New Zealand
Michael Strogoff (1876 Frank Leslie's Publishing House Pb) (1877 Sampson Low) (1877 Scribners)
[Filmed in 1937 as "The Soldier and the Lady"]
The Child of the Cavern (1877 Munro US) (1877 Sampson Low)
Hector Servadec : Travels and Adventures Through the Solar System (1877 Munro US Pb)
(1878 Sampson Low)
Dick Sands, The Boy Captain (1877 Munro, NY Pb) (1879)
The Exploration of the World (BC 505-AD 1700) (1879 Sampson Low)
(in US 1879 Scribner NY as "Famous Travels and Travellers")
500 Millions of the Begum (1879 Munro Pb) (in UK as "The Begum's Fortune" 1880 Sampson Low)
The Tribulations of a Chinaman (1880 Sampson Low) (1880 Lee & Shepherd((1880 Dutton)
The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century (1880 Sampson Low) (1880 Scribner)

1881-1885
The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century (1881 Sampson Low) (1881 Scribner)
The Steam House (1881 Munro) (1881 Sampson Low) (1881 Srcibners) - 2 vols
The Giant Raft (1881 Sampson Low) (1881-2 Munro Pb) (1881-2 Scribners) - 2 vols
Godfrey Morgan, A Californian Mystery (1883 Sampson Low)
(in US as "Robinson's School" 1883 Munro Pb) (1883 Scribners)
The Green Ray (1883 Sampson Low) (1883 Munro Pb) (1965 Arco US)
The Headstrong Turk (1883-4 Munro Pb) - 2 vols
(in UK as "Keraban the Inflexible" 1884-5 Sampson Low) - 2 vols
The Vanished Diamond (1885 Sampson Low)
(in US as "The Southern Star or The Diamond Land" 1885 Munro Pb)
(1966 Arco US)
[Filmed in 1968 as "The Southern Star"]
The Archipelago on Fire (1885 Munro Pb) (1886 Sampson Low)
Mathias Sandorf (1885 Munro Pb) (1886 Sampson Low)

1886-1890
The Clipper of the Clouds (1887 Sampson Low) (in US as "Robor the Conqueror (1887 Munro Pb)
Ticket No 9672 (1886 Munro Pb) - 2 vols
(in UK as "The Lottery Ticket" 1887 Sampson Low)
The Flight to France (1888 Toronto National Publ Co) (1888 Sampson Low) (1888 Lovell US Pb)
Texan's Vengeance, or North Versus South (1887 Munro Pb) - 2 vols
(in UK as "North Against South" 1888 Sampson Low)
Adrift in the Pacific (1889 Munro Pb) (1889 Sampson Low) (1889 Bromfield US)
A Family Without a Name (1889 Lovell US Pb) (1891 Sampson Low)
Cesar Cascabel (1890 Cassell US) (1891 Sampson Low)

1891-1900
The Purchase of the North Pole (1891 Sampson Low) (in US as "Topsy Turvy" 1890 Ogilvie US)
Mistress Branican (1891 Cassell US) (1892 Sampson Low)
The Castle of the Carpathians (1893 Sampson Low) (1894 Merrian)
Claudius Bombarnac (1894 Sampson Low)
(in US as "The Special Correspondent or The Adventures of Claudius Bombarnac 1894 US Book Co)
Foundling Mick (1895 Sampson Low)
Captain Antifer (1895 Sampson Low) (1895 Fenno Pb)
The Floating Island (1896 Sampson Low) (1897 Allison)
Clovis Dardentor (1897 Sampson Low)
Facing the Flag (1897 Tennyson Neely US) (1897 Sampson Low "For the Flag")
An Antarctic Mystery (1898 Sampson Low) (1898 Lippincott)
The Will of an Eccentric (1900 Sampson Low)

1901-1949
The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1909 Grant Richards)
(in US as "The Hunt for the Meteor" 1965 Arco US)
Master of the World (1914 Parke & Co, US) (1914 Sampson Low)
The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1923 Sampson Low) (1924 Watt US)
[Filmed in 1971 as "The Light at the Edge of the World"]
Second Patrie : Their Island Home (1923 Sampson Low) (1924 Watt)
The Castaways of the Flag (1923 Sampson Low)
Michael Strogoff (1927 Scribner) - N C Wyeth

1950-1960
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1956 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
The Mysterious Island (1959 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
The Barsac Mission : Into the Niger Bend (1960 Arco, UK & US)
The City in the Sahara (1960 Arco, UK & US)

1961 Onwards
Around the World in 80 Days (1962 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 Signed by Edward A Wilson
The Survivors of the Jonathan : The Masterless Men (1962 Arco, UK & US)
The Unwilling Dictator (1962 Arco, UK & US)
The Golden Volcano : The Claim on Forty Mile Creek (1962 Arco, UK & US)
Flood and Fame (1962 Arco, UK & US)
Dr Ox's Experiment (1963 Macmillan, NY) - William Pene du Bois
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1964 Arco, UK & US)
The Village in the Treetops (1964 Arco, UK & US)
Salvage from the 'Cynthia' (1964 Arco, UK & US) - written with Andre Laurie
Yesterday and Tomorrow (1965 Arco, UK & US)
The Thompson Travel Agency : Package Holiday (1965 Arco, UK & US)
End of the Journey (1965 Arco, UK & US)
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1966 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
Drama in Livonia (1967 Arco, UK & US)
The Danube Plot (1967 Arco, UK & US)
The Sea Serpent (1967 Arco, UK & US)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1969 RHS Publications, London) - 4 pop-ups
From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon (1970 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 2 vols. 1500 signed by Robert Shore
Backwards to Britain (1992 Chambers, UK & US)
Adventures of the Rat Family (1993 OUP, UK & US)
Paris in the 20thC (1996 Random House, UK & US)

READING
I O Evans : Jules Verne - Master of Science Fiction (1956 Sidgwick & Jackson)
Peter Costello : Jules Verne - Inventor of Science Fiction (1977) (1978 Scribner, London)
Judith Mistichelli, Edward Gallagher & John Van Erde : Jules Verne - A Primary
& Secondary Bibliography (1980 Hall)
Brian Taves & Stephen Michaluk : The Jules Verne Encyclopaedia (1996 Scarecrow)
Herbert Lottman : Jules Verne - An Exploratory Biography (1996 St Martin's)