His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", French novelist Jules Verne had a wide influence on on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. Octavo, three volumes in the original publisher’s pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispieces.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875.įirst editions in English of each volume in Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island trilogy. The Mysterious Island Trilogy: Dropped From the Clouds, Abandoned, and The Secret of the Island.
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