Books by Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction by Jules Verne. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax.As an American frigate is tracking down a ship-sinking monster the crew discovers an incredible invention, a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. A devastating explosion leaves three survivors who find themselves prisoners inside Nemo's ship on an underwater odyssey around the world.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an amazing undersea adventure and one of the earliest science fiction novels written. Generations of readers have sailed with Captain Nemo and his submarine, The Nautilus, around the world from the pearl-laden waters of Ceylon to the icy dangers of the South Pole and beyond.Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days. 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. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne is a sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways. The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The Mysterious Island begins during the siege of Richmond, Virginia in the American Civil War. As famine and death ravage the city, five northern prisoners of war escape by the unusual means of hijacking a balloon. Cyrus Smith, a railroad engineer in the Union army (named Cyrus Harding in some English translations); his black manservant; sailor Bonadventure Pencroff; his protégé Harbert Brown, a young boy whom Pencroff raises as his own after the death of his; and the journalist Gedéon Spilett. The company is completed by Cyrus' dog 'Top'.After flying in stormy weather for several days, the group crash-lands on a cliff-bound, volcanic island. Throughout their stay on the island, the group has to overcome bad weather and pirates. They eventually adopt and domesticate an orangutan, Jupiter, are aided by Captain Nemo and.......we don't want to spoil the rest of the story. The Mysterious Island is a wonder adventure and often counted as Verne's finest.