title: Three Novels: Journey to the Center of the Earth /  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea /  Round the World in Eighty Days
author:  Jules Verne 
description: The tension between the armchair and adventure, between security and possibility, lies at the heart of Verne, as of his agean age of scientific, technical, industrial, colonial expansion, but also of questioning and reverie . . . The template of Vernes great novels [is] a fusing of myth and the real; a new, modern, awestruck apprehension of the man-made and the natural; a dreamyet sometimes nightmareof the possibilities of mankind, technology and the sublime.<br />from the Introduction by Tim Farrant<br />
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  # In the Year 2889
  
  
  ### Jules Verne
  
  
  
  
  
  **Published:** 1889
  
  
  **Type(s):** Short Fiction, Science Fiction
  
  
  **Source:** http://www.gutenberg.org
  
  
  
  
  
  **About Verne:**  
  
  
  Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828–March 24, 1905) was a
  
  
  French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best
  
  
  known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864),
  
  
  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), and Around the World
  
  
  in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater
  
  
  travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented,
  
  
  and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is
  
  
  the third most translated author in the world, according to Index
  
  
  Translationum. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne,
  
  
  along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly
  
  
  referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction". Source:
  
  
  Wikipedia
  
  
  
  
  
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