He was sent to Paris to study law but soon began attending literary salons and engaged full time in writing stories and plays, garnering the attention of such prominent authors as Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.
Verne’s desire for adventure expressed itself in later years in his literary interests.
According to family legend, Verne attempted to run away from home as a child to join a ship crew and sail to India but was safely retrieved by his father. Verne was born in the French port city of Nantes and from a young age was fascinated by the idea of sea adventure. Journey to the Center of the Earth was written by the French writer Jules Gabriel Verne (1828–1905), who is best known for Extraordinary Voyages, a series of science fiction adventure stories that includes Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) as well as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).
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