Jules Verne
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First English edition of a classic Verne adventure, with a unique feminist twist.
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure...
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In London, 1872, a man named Phileas Fogg makes a bet with his friends that he can travel across the entire planet in eighty days. The wager? More than half his sizable fortune -- and the exact same amount of money that was stolen from a nearby bank a day earlier. Fogg hastily departs in the company of Passepartout, his personal attendant, on a journey that will take the two men all over the wide world by way of every known means of transportation....
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The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters...
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The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. Synopsis: In 1859 Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean on the mission to create a fort at 70 degrees, north of the Arctic Circle. The area they come to is very rich with wildlife and natural resources. Jasper Hobson and his party establish a fort...
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When his son Louis and members of the crew of the ship Jeune-Hardie, do not return from sea, Jean Cornbutte decides to refit the ship and go north to find them. Accompanying him on this trip is his son's fiancée, Marie, and the man who would be his son's rival for her affections, the ship's first officer, André Vasling. When the missing party is found in the extreme north, the only thing left to do is survive the bitter cold and rivalry. Jules Verne...
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In its first English translation in more than 100 years, a story of a world in which energy shortages lead a group of Americans to devise a radical solution, for their own gain, which puts the whole earth at risk In one of his best-known books, From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne described how a group of men in the Gun Club of Baltimore used a giant cannon to send a spacecraft to the moon. Now, in this sequel,...
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First published in 1874, "The Mysterious Island" is French author Jules Verne's exciting adventure which begins amidst the siege on Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. Five northern prisoners plan an unconventional escape by hijacking a hot air balloon. What is in store for them is more than they bargained for. Cyrus Harding, an engineer in the union army; his servant Nebuchadnezzar, a former slave; sailor Bonadventure Pencroft; his...
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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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The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger (French: Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon) is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary).
51) The Moon-Voyage
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Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but does not collide with the projectile. The asteroid had been captured by the Earth's gravity and had become a second moon.
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1866. Um medonho monstro marinho tem provocado o terror nos mares e causado sérios danos às ligações transatlânticas. Para tentar capturar o terrífico animal, é enviada uma expedição da qual faz parte o professor Pierre Aronnax, um eminente naturalista especializado em criaturas marinhas. Porém, para sua surpresa, o monstro não é outro senão o Naulitus, um submarino construído pelo enigmático capitão Nemo, que convida o professor e...
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A classic novel of world adventure literature "twenty Thousand League Under The Sea" - is one of the most known works by Jules Verne. A unique submarine ship "nautilus" with fearless hands of a captain Nemo aboard sets out on a journey round the world by the unexplored bosoms of the sea. No doubts this journey promises unforgettable experience for readers.
54) From the Earth to the Moon: Direct in Ninety-seven House and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Around It
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Scarcely more than a century after Jules Verne published one of the most enduring and captivating novels of the nineteenth century in 1865-From the Earth to the Moon-Apollo 8 circled the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968 carrying the first human beings to fly around another celestial body. With uncanny futuristic vision, Verne had not only anticipated that the launch would take place from Florida, but also foresaw a three man crew traveling in a capsule...
55) 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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Jules Verne est un écrivain français dont l'œuvre est, pour la plus grande partie, constituée de romans d'aventures évoquant les progrès scientifiques du XIXe siècle.
Dans ces trois grands romans, le fantastique se mêle à la prospective scientifique dans des histoires rocambolesques pleines de curiosités.
Cet ouvrage contient trois des plus fameux romans de Jules Verne :
Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873)
L'Île mystérieuse...
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The Blockade Runners (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages). An English translation was published in 1874. The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in...
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Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an enthralling odyssey that takes readers on an extraordinary expedition into the very bowels of the Earth, unlocking the mysteries that lie beneath the surface. Published in 1864, this timeless adventure begins with the eccentric Professor Otto Lidenbrock, whose insatiable thirst for knowledge propels him to uncover an ancient Icelandic manuscript containing cryptic clues to a subterranean world.
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