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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Voyages extraordinaires : Voyage au centre de la terre et autres romans
French language
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- 978-2-07-014393-1Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published Aug. 22, 2014
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- 978-2-01-203197-5Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published Dec. 27, 2004
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- 978-2-7434-5463-0Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la terre
French language
Published July 15, 1995
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- 978-2-85922-075-4Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la Terre
French language
Published July 15, 2011
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- 978-2-7532-0168-2Copied ISBN!
20 000 Meilen unter dem Meer
German language
Published April 30, 2021
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- 978-3-948800-16-1Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la terre
French language
Published July 15, 2010
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- 978-2-253-09408-1Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published June 8, 2017 by Gallimard Jeunesse.
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- 978-2-07-508169-6Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
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French language
Published July 30, 2000 by Hachette.
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- 978-3-595-55078-5Copied ISBN!
Voyage Au Centre De LA Terre
Paperback
English language
Published June 10, 1972 by Schoenhofs Foreign Books.
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- 978-0-685-37139-8Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published 2023 by Éditions du Chêne.
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- 978-2-8123-2160-3Copied ISBN!
A journey to the center of the earth
457 pages
English language
Published July 10, 2000 by Library Reproduction Service.
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- 978-1-58118-074-9Copied ISBN!
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