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
audio cassette
Published July 1, 2008 by Blackstone Audio, Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4332-4379-0Copied ISBN!
Journey to the center of the earth
287 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 1973 by Scholastic Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 5931261
Voyage Au Centre De La Terre
Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages
French language
Published Dec. 31, 1998 by Editions Flammarion.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-051437-3Copied ISBN!
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
427 pages
English language
Published July 30, 1916 by C. Scribner's Sons.
- OCLC Number:
- 4201664
20000 Leagues Under the Sea
English language
Published May 30, 1992 by Apple.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-590-45179-6Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Paperback, 256 pages
Published Oct. 30, 1965 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-002265-0Copied ISBN!
Viaggio al centro della terra
189 pages
Italian language
Published Aug. 6, 1989 by Einaudi.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-06-11468-8Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
61 pages
Published Feb. 1, 1989 by Unicorn Pub House.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88101-090-9Copied ISBN!
Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers
Mass Market Paperback, 322 pages
French language
Published Oct. 30, 1998 by Gallimard Education, Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-051432-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 370783
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
729 pages
French language
Published Aug. 22, 1999 by Presses Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-09177-0Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 175760
Vingt mille lieus sous les mers
microform, 114 pages
French language
Published Oct. 30, 1996 by Copp, Clark.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-665-77498-0Copied ISBN!
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 304 pages
English language
Published May 10, 1986 by Dutton Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-317-01098-5Copied ISBN!
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
Paperback, 444 pages
French language
Published Jan. 30, 1999 by Bookking International.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-87714-204-5Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 2617099
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