Imagine looking at a book from the 'fiction' section and being outraged at the 'lies'
First of all my good man, I'm not outraged.
Second of all, that's kind of ignorant, as every work of fiction contains truth from the time of the author,
and vice versa; nonfiction contains lies. Ever heard of 'based on a true story'?
It's likely Dickens wrote of real life events. Everything can be called fiction since it's reality sifted through the views of and pen (or keyboard) of the author.
As for Verne, I'm glad you agree that journeying
around the flat earth and the moon landing are fiction