Jules Verne was born in February 1828. He developed a passion for travelling and adventures at an early age. Verne had begun writing in his teens. Un preterm en 1839 (A Priest in 1839), his unfinished novels, is one of his earliest surviving prose works. His first novel, Five Weeks in a Ballon, was published by Hetzel in 1863. As a series of adventures follows, will they be able to find this sea monster? One of the debut adventure novels, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published more than a century ago, this classic science fiction continues to be praised by its readers.