Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His most known work came from collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel which led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of adventure novels including the two presented in this book, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction" and he is the second most-translated author in the world in the last four decades. Around the World in Eighty Days is a fantastic voyage by an Englishman and his servant. The story is a comedy filled with exotic locations, cultures and suspense along the way. Heroes of the story, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout, travel around the world to win a simple wager, but they leave an incredible story about loyalty and friendship in their wake. Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne. A German mineralogist Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the incredible world beneath the earth's crust.