Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Scribner Illustrated Classics for Younger Readers)

405, [1] pp. Original black cloth, color picture plate mounted on front board. Color frontispiece, three color plates in text, from illustrations by W.J. Aylward. A reissue of Verne's immortal tale of underwater adventure, originally released in 1870, and first translated into English (poorly) in 1873. An uncommon edition with better illustrations than many versions. About the author: "Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1869–1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction", along with H.G. Wells. Verne is the second most translated author of all time, only behind Agatha Christie..."