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 T1 (COLL. HETZEL) (ROMANS)
204 pages
French language
Published May 19, 2019
- ISBN:
- 978-2-36808-630-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 50615510
Voyage au centre de la terre
120 pages
French language
Published Nov. 7, 1988
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7367-0377-6Copied ISBN!
Jules Verne : les romans de l'eau
1344 pages
French language
Published May 19, 2001
- ISBN:
- 978-2-258-05788-3Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 2436772
The Jules Verne Collection
English language
Published July 15, 2015
- ISBN:
- 978-1-77226-210-0Copied ISBN!
Kapteeni Nemo merten syvyyksissä
Finnish language
Published Jan. 7, 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-952-492-185-5Copied ISBN!
20000 Leagues Under the Sea
English language
Published Aug. 22, 2001
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-60253-8Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Signet Classics)
304 pages
Published May 5, 1986 by Signet Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-451-52450-8Copied ISBN!
Viaje al centro de la tierra
199 pages
Spanish language
Published Sept. 11, 1999 by Unidad Editorial.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-8130-188-5Copied ISBN!
Amazing Journeys
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2012 by State University of New York Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4384-3240-3Copied ISBN!
Voyages extraordinaires
942 pages
French language
Published 2017 by La Bibliothèque des Classiques.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-37735-053-7Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
eBook
English language
Published Nov. 12, 2022 by Standard Ebooks.
Journey to the center of the Earth
English language
Published Nov. 16, 2008 by Simon & Schuster.
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- 978-1-4165-6146-0Copied ISBN!
A journey to the centre of the earth
305 pages
English language
Published July 10, 1905 by Scribner.
- OCLC Number:
- 5327482
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