First Students' Classics

Jules Verne

Dec 2011 · First Students' Classics Issue #12 · Singapore Asia Publishers Pte Ltd

About this ebook

 Suitable for children 8-12 years old, great literary classics are retold in full-colour, graphic novel style.

The story is engaging and easy to read and a child's first exposure to great classics and remarkable authors.

Excellent as introductory readers to great literary works.

About the author

 Jules Gabriel Verne was born in Nantes, France, in the year 1828. He was a French author who initiated the science-fiction genre. Verne studied law in Paris, and from 1848 until 1863 wrote opera librettos and plays. He was greatly interested in science and geographical discovery. Many publishers rejected this work, until one publisher suggested that he should rewrite his works in the form of an adventure story. The result was Cinq semaines en ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon, 1863). The subsequent fame and success of the book inspired Verne to write other adventurous tales.

Verne is best known for novels such as Journey To The Centre 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 even before practical means of such travels had been devised.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a classic science fiction novel, which was originally published in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre. The story involves a professor, who leads his nephew and a hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the centre of the earth. During this journey, they encounter various adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy.