I have had a ridiculous amount of fun this year listening to classic novels as audiobooks. When Audible offered a freebie (I think it was a freebie) of Journey to the Center of the Earth read by Tim Curry, I was excited – Tim Curry! Come on. It almost didn't matter what it was; I kind of place Cu...
The classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. A wonderful introduction to world literature, this finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes "Around ...
"The Mysterious Island" is a novel by Jules Verne first published by Hetzel in 1874. The original edition contained quite a few illustrations done by Jules Férat. My edition has quite a few of the illustrations but originally there were even more. The novel is linked by certain characters to tw...
Five Weeks in A Balloon by Jules VerneAwe, inspiration, joy, amusement, hope, interest, pride, gratitude, serenity and most of all love... These are the elements, feelings or incentives to feel these emotions that we should look for in the stories we read, in order to obtain Positivity. For the t...
من جديد أنهي كتابا، هو هنا رواية كلاسيكية ، ومن جديد أجد نفسي في حيرة كيف أكتب مراجعتي ومن أين أبدأ وأي النقاط أتناول :))رواية كلاسيكية ممتعة لجول فيرن ... جول فيرن الفرنسي المولود في 1828 والذي ألهب خيال أبناء جيله برواياته التي تندرج تحت تصنيف الخيال العلمي، وقد تم انجاز العديد من الاختراعات ال...
1905. Illustrated. French writer and pioneer of science fiction, whose is best known today for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. In Hector Servadac a comet takes Hector and his servant on a trip around the Solar System. In a tongue-in-cheek epis...
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All edition...
De la mano de Julio Verne, el lector se sube a una auténtica atracción de feria. Empezar a leer esta novela es comprar un billete para lanzarse al centro de la Tierra en una montaña rusa que nos lleva hacia lo desconocido. Tres personajes serán nuestros compañeros de viaje: el perseverante cientí...
I read Le Sphinix des Glaces immediately after the novel to which it is a sequel, that-is-to-say Edgar Allen Poe’s “Adverntures of Arthur Gordon Pym”. I believe that this is the best if not the only way to enjoy “Le Sphinx des Glaces.” Certainly I strongly advise against reading “Le Sphinix” to a...
Fiction. Written during a time when there were still blank spaces on the map, when Verne could slap a volcano down on the North Pole and no one could call him on it, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras might seem fantastic to us today with its temperate polar waters teaming with wildlife (and flyi...
Take a journey on a giant raft with Joam Garral down 800 Leagues on the Amazon. Garral, a Brazilian, lives on a thriving fazenda (plantation) in the Peruvian frontier with his loving family. But, his daughter's imminent marriage to a Brazilian army surgeon compels him to return to his homeland to...
The second book of a two book series called "The Astonishing Adventure of the Barsac Mission" about a group of Frenchmen & an Englishwoman traveling in Africa who're captured by a leader of a criminal group who have a secret oasis city in the desert.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the...
A string of coincidences in this novel ruined the pleasure of reading it. I was anyway indulgent with credibility for Jules Verne's novels, but in this one, there are a lot of events tied to the plot that are just visible from the outer space that it is a fabricated story. As I like very much fro...
The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the geologist--together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devot...
I enjoyed this book, but I don't think I would have if I hadn't traveled in (and been a bit obsessed with) Central Asia. The plot was not as interesting to me as the detailed descriptions of the various cities and towns that Claudius Bombarnac visits during his trip between Baku (modern Azerbaija...
Harry watches in terror as the giant prehistoric monsters come closer and closer... In an incredible world hundreds of miles beneath the earth's surface, three daring explorers risk their lives! Unforgettable adventure that thrilled you in the movie, Journey to the Center of the Earth, that you ...
Supposedly, Jules Verne is, in France, considered a “travel and adventure” writer, and is considered one of the great French authors, along with Zola, Hugo, and Dumas. Although I don’t consider him one of the greatest authors I’ve read, I have no doubt that Jules Verne is a great author, and well...
The last novel by Verne first published in France fourteen years after Verne's death. In it, two politicians and their entourage travel through French West Africa in the late 19th or early 20th century to gather evidence to support arguments for and against giving voting rights to black Africans.
Two heirs to an Indian Begum's estate -- Dr. Francois Sarrasin, a Frenchman, and Professor Schultz, a German -- split 525 million francs. With his half of the money, Sarrasin builds an ideal community called Frankville in the northwestern United States. Schultz uses his half to construct a city c...
In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules Verne's son, Michel Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the arti...
Propeller Island (1895), a science fiction novel about a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean inhabited entirely by millionaires, was first published as part of the "Voyages Extraordinaires."
A few timorous people were alarmed by the idea of a 20,000-pound shell being shot into space. Everyone wondered what kind of a cannon would ever be able to give enough initial velocity to such a mass. These questions were to be triumphantly answered by the minutes of the committee’s second meetin...
— More than three months had elapsed since we left Charleston in the Chancellor, and for no less than twenty days had we now been borne along on our raft at the mercy of the wind and waves. Whether we were approaching the American coast, or whether we were drifting farther and farther to sea, it ...
There was no fear of heat, none of disastrous rain. Weather for tourists. The pleasure of riding on horseback through an unknown country made me easy to please at the start of our venture. I gave myself wholly to the pleasure of the traveler, made up of desires and freedom. I was beginning to tak...
after the construction of this extraordinary concern, the Floating Island Company had to provide for the requirements of a double organisation, maritime on the one hand and administrative on the other. The former, as we know, had as director, or rather captain, Commodore Ethel Simcoe, of the Unit...
The rapidity of her screw was such that I could neither follow nor count its evolutions. When I reflected that this marvelous electric agent, after having afforded motion, heat, and light to the Nautilus, still protected her from outward attack, and transformed her into an ark of safety which no ...
Quinsonnas opened the door and announced his friend Jacques Aubanet, an employee of the General Corporation of Maritime Mines. Michel and Jacques were introduced to each other in the simplest manner possible. Jacques Aubanet, a handsome young man of twenty-five, was a close friend of Quinsonnas, ...
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The searchlights had missed him; he had been able to glide unperceived among the trees and the attackers had not troubled about him. But he had no intention of forsaking his masters, not less because Malik was with them. He had indeed thought of trying to help them, but he...
An interior chamber elegantly furnished, lighted by electricity. Sofas on either side. All the machinery is upstage. On the outside, the hull of the Nautilus, which is completely submerged, is in contact with the water, which covers it above the platform. Backstage, doors leading to the engine ro...
Captain Servadac became aware that the huge disc that had been looming through the clouds after the shock was the form of the retreating earth, to the proximity of which the one high tide they had experienced was also to be attributed. As to the fulfillment of the professor's prediction of an ult...
9672 @page { margin-bottom: 20.000000pt; margin-top: 20.000000pt; } Chapter IX * Sylvius Hogg was the name that the stranger inscribed upon the inn register, that same evening, directly underneath the name of Sandgoist, and there was as great a contrast between the two names as between the men th...
Had they been killed in the struggle? Were they taken prisoners by the Sioux? It was impossible to tell. There were many wounded, but none mortally. Colonel Proctor was one of the most seriously hurt; he had fought bravely, and a ball had entered his groin. He was carried ...