When Jules Verne was born in 1828, his family had his future planned out for him. They expected him to become a lawyer, but he dreamed of writing. He started out writing more traditional poetry and plays, but then he began to create a new, unconventional kind of fiction. It combined adventure, the modern world of science and invention, and his personal view of the future. With fantastical characters, spaceships to the moon, and deep-sea submarines, his books told of things that would not actually occur for decades.
- ISBN: 9781575054407
- Published: 2000 , Carolrhoda Books
- Themes: Authors, Literary, Science fiction
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, France, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
- No. of pages: 64