![]() ![]() In his early teens, he ran away and worked for a day on a sailing vessel before his father fetched him home. Meanwhile, his mother showed her fast-paced imagination, which Verne later compared to his own. ![]() ![]() His father groomed him to become a lawyer but regularly read the latest science news to his five children. He had begun writing in his teens, creating unremarkable plays, articles, and stories. Verne combines adventure and learning in a study of freedom, revenge, and scientific discovery beneath the waves.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn in the seaport town of Nantes, France, Jules Verne reached his thirties before settling into the life of a science fiction writer, the occupation of his choice. A novel set in the depths of the world’s oceans around 1869, first published in France as a magazine serial in 1869 and as a book in 1870. ![]()
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