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He died in 1905..
He also kept a house in Paris, in the street now named Boulevard Jules Verne, and a beloved yacht, the Saint Michel, named after his son.
In later life Verne entered local politics at Amiens, where had had a home.
Verne and Hetzel collaborated to write dozens more such adventures, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1869 and Around the World in 80 Days in 1872.
His first science-based novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was issued by the influential publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1862, and made him famous.
In Paris to train for the bar, he took more readily to literary life, befriending Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo, and living by theatre managing and libretto-writing.
With an Afterword by John Grant About the Author: Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, France, in 1828 and was destined to follow his father into the legal profession.
The exciting, if now dated, adventure of Fogg and Passepartout will entertain modern readers as much as it did the Victorians.
Later that day he gets involved in an argument over an article in the Daily Telegraph, stating that with the opening of a new railway in India, it is now possible to travel Around the World in Eighty days.
He hires Passepartout as a replacement.
Phileas Fogg is a wealthy, solitary man with regular habits, who fires his former butler for getting wrong the temperature of his shaving water.
The story starts in London on 2 October 1872.
Around the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic.
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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector\'s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles
