French Novelist, Poet, Playwright, whose Novels, Always well Documented, are Generally Set in the second half of the 19th Century, taking into Account the Technological Advances of the Time, and the second Most-translated Author in the World since 1979

: A French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). (From: Wikipedia.org.)