Includes the following short stories (titles in English are followed by the title in French and original publication date): · Recollection of Childhood and Youth / Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1891 · The First Ships of the Mexican Navy / L'Amérique du Nord, études historiques: Les Premiers Navires de la marine mexicaine, 1851 · A Drama in the Air / Un voyage en ballon, 1851 · Master Zacharius / Maître Zacharius, ou L'Horloger qui avait perdu son âme, tradition genevoise, 1854 · The Humbug / Le Humbug, 1863 · Dr Ox's Experiment / Une fantasie du docteur Ox, 1872 · An Ideal City / Amiens en l'an 2000, 1875 · Dr Trifulgas / Frritt-Flacc, 1886 · Gil Braltar /Gil Braltar, 1889 · In the Twenty-Ninth Century (by Michael Verne) / Aux XXIXe siècle, 1889 · An Express of the Future (with Michael Verne) / Un express de l'avenir, 1893 · The Eternal Adam (with Michael Verne) / L'Éternel Adam, 1910
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Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules\_V...
