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
English language
Published Sept. 23, 1994 by Pendulum Press.
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- 978-0-87232-049-9Copied ISBN!
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 184 pages
Published Jan. 30, 2018 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-9842-7046-7Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
256 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1998
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- 978-1-85326-031-5Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 853631
20,000 leagues under the sea
32 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1994
- ISBN:
- 978-1-896298-14-6Copied ISBN!
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
384 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1994 by Penguin.
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- 978-0-14-062118-1Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 853629
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
88 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2010
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- 978-1-60291-833-7Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
15 Audio Discs
French language
Published Feb. 11, 2020 by Blackstone Audio.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-0940-1741-9Copied ISBN!
Twenty thousand leagues under the seas : an underwater tour of the world
478 pages
English language
Published 2009
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- 978-1-904808-28-2Copied ISBN!
Around the World In Eighty Days; From the Earth to the Moon; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
592 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1978
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- 978-0-7064-0784-6Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 438646
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
mass market paperback
Published Sept. 28, 1976 by Bantam Books.
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- 978-0-553-10325-0Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Hardcover
Published June 10, 1974 by Pendulum Pr.
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- 978-0-88301-210-9Copied ISBN!
Seven Novels
1208 pages
English language
Published July 15, 2011 by Barnes & Noble, Incorporated.
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- 978-1-4351-2295-6Copied ISBN!
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers
616 pages
French language
Published Aug. 22, 2001 by Librairie Générale Française.
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- 978-2-253-00632-9Copied ISBN!
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- 355944
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Paperback, 250 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 2005 by Lulu.com.
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- 978-1-4116-3231-8Copied ISBN!
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