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
201 pages
French language
Published July 30, 1902 by D. C. Heath & co..
- OCLC Number:
- 39795412
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published 2001 by Hachette.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-01-200621-8Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Paperback, 95 pages
English language
Published March 30, 1981 by Random House Childrens Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-394-84722-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 10732517
Journey to the center of the earth
English language
Published July 10, 2005 by Chelsea House Pub..
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7910-9105-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 61285695
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published April 24, 2018 by Magnard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-210-75881-0Copied ISBN!
Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino
Published Oct. 30, 1992 by Círculo de lectores.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-226-4215-2Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
72 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2014 by Capstone.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4965-0010-6Copied ISBN!
Viaje Al Centro De LA Tierra/Journey to the Center of the Earth
Hardcover
Published June 26, 1983 by Lectorum Pubns (Juv).
- ISBN:
- 978-84-272-4237-1Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
96 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2018 by Kings Road Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78741-240-8Copied ISBN!
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