BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS AQUARIUS: JULES VERNES

Writer, born in Nantes, W France. He studied law at Paris, then turned to literature. From 1848 he wrote opera libretti, then in 1863 developed a new vein in fiction, exaggerating and anticipating the possibilities of science. His best-known books are Voyage au centre de la terre (1864, Journey to the Centre of the Earth), Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea), and Voyage autour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873, Around the World in Eighty Days). Several successful films have been made from his novels. He greatly influenced the early science fiction of H G Wells.