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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A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Great Illustrated Classics)
Hardcover
English language
Published Nov. 10, 1984 by W. Clement Stone.
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- 978-0-396-08429-7Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published March 17, 1994 by Hachette Jeunesse.
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- 978-2-01-209232-7Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published May 19, 2010
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- 978-2-35024-065-7Copied ISBN!
vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published Aug. 2, 1981
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- 978-2-7192-0215-9Copied ISBN!
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers
French language
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- 978-2-264-08678-5Copied ISBN!
Journey to the centre of the earth
224 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1965 by Arco.
20000 lieues sous les mers
French language
Published 1992
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- 978-2-87153-098-5Copied ISBN!
Viaggio al centro della Terra
Italian language
Published by Newton Compton.
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- 978-88-541-2636-7Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
English language
Published 2013 by General Books LLC.
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- 978-1-236-72716-9Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
French language
Published by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-058576-2Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
English language
Published 2009 by General Books LLC.
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- 978-1-4590-1170-0Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
English language
Published 2016 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-5335-9342-9Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
English language
Published 1870 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-5442-5573-6Copied ISBN!
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers
Spanish language
- ISBN:
- 978-84-473-9895-9Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
English language
Published 2018 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-9869-6364-0Copied ISBN!
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