"Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!"
Jules Verne was a French novelist and pioneer of adventure and science fiction literature. His works, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, influenced modern speculative fiction.