Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French writer. He was one of the first authors to write science fiction.  The action of J. Verne's novels, always very well designed, usually takes place in the second half of the 19th century. They are  exceptionally adventurous - "Captain Grant's Children" (1868), "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873), "The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain" (1878), etc., and science fiction - "From Earth to The Moon" (1865), "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea" (1870), "Robur the Conqueror" (1886), etc. In addition to novels, he created many plays, short stories, autobiographical stories, poems, songs; scientific, artistic and literary works.