Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth), is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It was first published …
Voyage au centre de la Terre
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth), is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded edition. Professor Otto Lidenbrock is the tale's central figure, an eccentric German scientist who believes there are volcanic tubes that reach to the very center of the earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their Icelandic guide Hans rappel into Iceland's celebrated inactive volcano Snæfellsjökull, then contend with many dangers, including cave-ins, subpolar tornadoes, an underground ocean, and living prehistoric creatures from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. (The 1867 revised edition inserted additional prehistoric material in Chaps. 37–39.) Eventually the three explorers are spewed back to the surface by an active volcano, Stromboli, in southern Italy.
The category of subterranean fiction existed well before Verne. However his novel's distinction lay in its well-researched Victorian science and its inventive contribution to the science-fiction subgenre of time travel—Verne's innovation was the concept of a prehistoric realm still existing in the present-day world. Not surprisingly, Journey inspired many later authors, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his novel The Lost World and Edgar Rice Burroughs in his Pellucidar series.
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- 32715
- BNF ID:
- 12342582t
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages, #6)
Hardcover, 394 pages
English language
Published Aug. 27, 2002 by Barnes & Noble Children's Classics.
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- 978-0-7607-2850-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 49757218
- GoodReads:
- 33507
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Paperback, 185 pages
English language
Published July 15, 1996 by Wordsworth Classics.
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- 978-1-85326-287-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 35136742
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Saddleback Classics)
Paperback, 79 pages
English language
Published by Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc..
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- 978-1-56254-877-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 83599631
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Paperback, 352 pages
English language
Published March 3, 2005 by Barnes & Noble Classics.
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- 978-1-59308-302-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 58448454
- GoodReads:
- 376976
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Paperback, 268 pages
English language
Published June 18, 2007 by BiblioBazaar.
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- 978-1-4346-3047-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 261126745
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Hardcover, 365 pages
English language
Published Aug. 14, 1990 by Reader's Digest Association.
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- 978-0-89577-347-0Copied ISBN!
- ASIN:
- 0895773473
- GoodReads:
- 2619685
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
eBook, 320 pages
English language
Published 2003 by Random House Publishing Group.
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- 978-0-553-89741-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 248019506
- GoodReads:
- 6388337
Journey to the center of the Earth/Voyage au centre de la Terre
Paperback, 532 pages
French, English language
Published Jan. 26, 2016 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-5237-0870-3Copied ISBN!
20,000 leagues under the sea
322 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2005 by Scholastic Inc..
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- 978-0-7172-8676-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 319062380
Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra / Journey to the Center of the Earth
Hardcover, 292 pages
Spanish language
Published Oct. 30, 2005 by Anayaeditores.
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- 978-84-667-4701-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 63696200
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Hardcover
English language
Published June 9, 1978 by Amereon Limited.
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- 978-0-88411-918-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 29452777
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Hardcover, 592 pages
Published June 30, 2013 by 1st World Library.
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- 978-1-4218-5162-4Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 160 pages
English language
Published March 4, 2005 by Dover Publications.
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- 978-0-486-44088-0Copied ISBN!
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
182 pages
English language
Published June 15, 1992 by Globe Book.
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- 978-0-8359-0217-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 31186640
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 146 pages
English language
Published Dec. 16, 2014 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-5055-7394-7Copied ISBN!
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