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
510 pages
French language
Published May 19, 1968 by Éditions Lidis.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Signet Classics)
301 pages
Published Aug. 5, 1986 by Signet Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-451-51982-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 14233210
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
96 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2021 by White Star Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-544-1831-8Copied ISBN!
Journey into the Center of the Earth
220 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2019 by Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-0976-7654-5Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
288 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2015 by Flame Tree Publishing.
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- 978-0-85775-419-6Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the sea
paperback, 352 pages
English language
Published Sept. 3, 2006 by Saddleback Publsihing.
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- 978-0-06-075884-4Copied ISBN!
Journey to the centre of the earth
234 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2008 by Oxford University Press.
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- 978-0-19-953807-2Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
1 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2000 by Penguin Publishing Group.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-448-42448-4Copied ISBN!
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea.
316 pages
English language
Published July 30, 1990 by World International.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7235-4353-4Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la terre
E-book
French language
Published July 10, 2009 by eBooksLib.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4121-9672-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 472474829
Jules Verne, Lewis Helfand, Vinod Kumar: Journey to the Center of the Earth (2013, Steerforth Press)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
72 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2013 by Steerforth Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-93-80028-40-8Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
48 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2007 by Evans Brothers, Limited.
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- 978-0-237-53282-6Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
384 pages
English language
Published June 15, 1990 by Penguin Publishing Group.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-451-52453-9Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
116 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2012 by General Books LLC.
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- 978-0-217-14707-1Copied ISBN!
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