Jules Verne is probably France’s most famous writer: who hasn’t heard of Around the World in Eighty Days or Captain Nemo? But do you know that there are more than 4700 translations of Jules Verne’s work around the world, which makes him the second most-translated author in the world after Agatha Christie, and before Shakespeare? That he created 563 fictional characters? That Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas was the inspiration for Rimbaud’s The Drunken Boat? Be them essential information or quirky anecdotes, there is (almost!) everything you need to know about the «Father of Science Fiction» in this fun and richly documented biography.