Jules Verne
62) Maître du monde
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Sur les routes des États-Unis, une mystérieuse voiture a été repérée qui roule deux fois plus vite que n'importe quelle voiture de course. Au large des ctes américaines, on a découvert un étrange navire profilé qui flotte sans l'aide du vent, de la vapeur ou d'un moteur à kérosène et part de toute poursuite. Dans le lac, isolé du réseau hydrographique, on remarque la présence d'un sous-marin... Comment tous ces événements sont-ils...
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Here in one binding are both of Jules Verne's Captain Nemo novels. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea we meet the enigmatic Captain Nemo and The Nautilus. Even after many adventures and much derring-do Nemo's secrets remain his own, and at the end of the novel we are left with many mysteries concering this mysterious and tragic man. In The Mysterious Island we once again encounter Captain Nemo. The years have mellowed him some, and he reveals his surprising...
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Verne's first cautionary tale about the dangers of science-first modern and corrected English translation.
When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah's fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban community devoted to health and hygiene, the specialty of its French founder, Dr. François Sarrasin. Stahlstadt, or City of Steel, is a fortress-like...
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‘The Golden Volcano’ is a writing work of a French novelist Jules Verne (fr. Jules Verne, 1828-1905). The lead characters are two cousins, who receive an inheritance from their uncle, a gold mine at outland Klondike. Weighing all advantages and disadvantages, they decide to go to Alaska.
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A thrilling subterranean adventure filled with startling and strange discoveries
When Professor Otto Liedenbrock comes across a strange code, he is convinced that it points the way to reaching the center of the earth. With the help of his nephew Axel, he deciphers the code and with Axel at his side, sets off for Iceland. There, they venture down the crater of a volcano. Travelling further and further, deeper into the earth using a series of interconnected...
68) L'Île à hélice
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L'Île à hélice est un roman de fiction de Jules Verne. Le roman raconte l'histoire d'un quatuor musical, en raison de la supercherie astucieuse, qui s'est avérée être sur une immense île flottante qui est devenue la maison des millionnaires américains et qui nage constamment dans l'océan Pacifique. Standard Island est constamment en danger: l'invasion d'animaux sauvages, l'attaque de pirates malais, la lutte de deux familles riches pour le...
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En 1839, l'Américain Jeorling, minéralogiste, de passage aux îles Kerguelen, cherche à retourner dans son Connecticut natal. Il rencontre Len Guy, le capitaine de la goélette l'Halbrane ; celui-ci accepte tant bien que mal de l'emmener. Le départ a lieu le 15 août 1839.
Cette œuvre se présente comme une suite au roman d'Edgar Allan Poe — auquel il est dédié —, Les Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym, publié en 1838. Alors que le texte de...
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Dick Sands, The Boy Captain appeared in 1878, and it is the epic of the slave trade. The description of the wilds of Africa, its adventures and its dangers, the savage hunting both of beasts and men, has always been a favorite among Verne's readers. It contains no marvels, no inventions, but merely, amid stirring scenes and actions seeks to convey two truthful impressions. One is the traveler's teaching the geographical information, the picture of...
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Julio Verne fue un genio, posiblemente el más grande novelista de ciencia ficción y aventuras de la literatura universal. No hay niño, adolescente o adulto que no conozca sus historias, ya sea por su lectura, por sus adaptaciones al cine, a los cómics o al teatro.
Referirnos a este autor francés es hablar de imaginación, creatividad, acción trepidante, diversión y entretenimiento, ilusión, ciencia, visión adelantada a su tiempo y trama...
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Descubra las mejores novelas de Julio Verne.
Considerado el precursor de la Ciencia Ficción, Julio Verne fue el más adelantado y visionario de los grandes escritores que nos dio el siglo XIX. Su desbordada imaginación dio lugar a medio centenar de las mejores novelas de aventuras de todos los tiempos: De la tierra a la luna, 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino o La vuelta al mundo en 80 días. La gran mayoría de su obra es digna de mención, y raro...
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Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner Pilgrim as a sailor. The crew are whale hunters that voyage every year down to New Zealand. After an unsuccessful season of hunting an entomologist ask for a return passage to San Francisco. Several days into the journey they save five shipwrecked passengers from another ship and a dog who was with them at the time.
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Claudius Bombarnac, a reporter is assigned by the Twentieth Century to cover the travels of the Grand Transasiatic Railway which runs between Uzun Ada, Turkestan and Peking, China. Accompanying him on this journey is an interesting collection of characters, including one who is trying to beat the round the world record and another who is a stowaway.
76) Around the Moon
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Embark on an exhilarating celestial adventure with Jules Verne's "Around the Moon." As the sequel to the groundbreaking "From the Earth to the Moon," this novel continues the daring exploits of the brave astronauts from the Baltimore Gun Club. Cast into space by a colossal cannon, their spacecraft, the Columbiad, is destined for a journey around the moon, plunging the crew into the heart of the unknown.
"Around the Moon" is a testament to Verne's...
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Brilliant Victor Cyprien loves a South African mining heiress, but needs money. A failure at diamond mining, he instead creates a spectacular artificial gem of his own. The sudden disappearance of this "Star of the South" leads Victor and his romantic rivals on a wild chase across the veldt-but are they on the right track?
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Les aventures extraordinaires d'un emblématique capitaine, héros romantique en quête d'un apaisement qu'il poursuit sans jamais l'atteindre
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, publié en 1870. Il est le sixième de la série des Voyages Extraordinaires; il fait suite aux Enfants du capitaine Grant et se complète par l'Île mystérieuse.
Un monstre marin de proportions gigantesques répand la terreur sur...
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Pioneering science-fiction writer Jules Verne is the second most translated author of all time (after Agatha Christie.) This translation of his short story A Voyage in a Balloon first appeared in Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art in a May 1852 edition, making it the first of the French writer's stories to be published in English. As Verne writes in this story: "May this terrific recital, while it instructs those who read it, not discourage...
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Dive into the immersive world of Jules Verne with "The Classic Collection," featuring five iconic novels accompanied by stunning illustrations. "Around the World in 80 Days" follows the enigmatic Phileas Fogg and his adventurous journey to circumnavigate the globe in record time, encountering obstacles and excitement at every turn. In "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea," readers plunge into the depths of the ocean aboard the remarkable submarine,...