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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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 61 pages
English language
Published April 10, 1998 by Educational Insights, Inc.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-56767-259-6Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
464 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2017 by Dover Publications, Incorporated.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-486-81794-1Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Bookcassette(r) Edition)
Audio cassette
English language
Published June 1, 1993 by Bookcassette.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-56100-503-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 28390290
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
48 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2010 by Classic Comic Store, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-906814-52-6Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
72 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2014 by Capstone.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4965-0029-8Copied ISBN!
Journey into the Center of the Earth
153 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2020 by Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-6532-7171-9Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
488 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2019 by Worth Press Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84931-165-6Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
384 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-00-735104-6Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
64 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 1998 by Fenn & Company, Ltd., H. B..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55168-228-0Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
176 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2006 by Penguin Publishing Group.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-240664-9Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
502 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2002 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59109-325-1Copied ISBN!
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
38 pages
English language
Published June 15, 1993 by Unicorn Publishing House.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88101-286-6Copied ISBN!
20,000 leagues under the sea
46 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2013 by Sandy Creek.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4351-4815-4Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback
Published Sept. 10, 1977 by Scholastic Paperbacks.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-590-08552-6Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
mass market paperback
Published Sept. 26, 1988 by Aerie Books Ltd..
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- 978-0-938819-17-2Copied ISBN!
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