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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- LibraryThing key:
- 32715
- BNF ID:
- 12342582t
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Vingt-Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers
Paperback, 123 pages
French language
Published Jan. 1, 1977 by Ecole des Loisirs,France.
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- 978-2-211-04510-0Copied ISBN!
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- 1275771
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
Mass Market Paperback, 319 pages
Published April 17, 1998 by Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-051433-5Copied ISBN!
20,000 leagues under the seas
English language
Published May 6, 2013 by State University of New York Press.
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- 978-1-4384-4663-9Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
audio cd
Published Jan. 20, 2011 by Blackstone Audio, Inc..
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- 978-0-7861-8326-5Copied ISBN!
Journey to the centre of the earth
English language
Published July 10, 1998 by Oxford U.P..
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- 978-0-19-283675-5Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la Terre
314 pages
French language
Published Nov. 7, 1972 by Éditions Albin Michel.
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- 978-2-253-01254-2Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
English language
Published Sept. 23, 2003 by MDS Books/Mediasat.
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- 978-84-9789-016-8Copied ISBN!
Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra / Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 200 pages
Spanish language
Published May 26, 1998 by Continental Book Co Inc.
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- 978-84-495-0109-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 318456003
Une oeuvre : 20000 lieues sous les mers
Mass Market Paperback, 127 pages
French language
Published July 30, 1993 by Hatier.
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- 978-2-218-05586-7Copied ISBN!
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
407 pages
English language
Published July 30, 1925 by C. Scribner's Sons.
- OCLC Number:
- 5423335
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published Feb. 8, 2012 by De Borée.
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- 978-2-8129-0940-5Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published March 17, 2004 by Hachette Jeunesse.
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- 978-2-01-321921-1Copied ISBN!
Ventimila leghe sotto i mari
Italian language
Published Aug. 14, 1994
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- 978-88-415-1738-3Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers : extraits
French language
Published Aug. 22, 2016
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- 978-2-03-591923-6Copied ISBN!
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