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As a child I have read everything I could get my hands on by Jules Verne. He is amazing, it is an intellectual adventure thriller fof children and adults.
by Jules Verne
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Product Details
Publisher: books catalog
Format: eBook
File Size: 1149 KB
ISBN-13: 2940001763079
Edition Description: Digitized from 1905 volume
Synopsis
Now available in a new translation, this classic of nineteenth century French literature has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater toward a sunless sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man. Exploring the prehistory of the globe, this novel can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Verne's distinctive combination of realism and Romanticism has marked figures as diverse as Sartre and Tournier, Mark Twain and Conan Doyle.
Annotation
A team of explorers makes an expedition into a crater in Iceland which leads to the center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.
Children's Literature
The first English translation of Jules Verne's classic science fiction adventure story appeared in 1871. Reluctant Harry and his determined uncle, Professor Hardwigg, decipher a mysterious note from a sixteenth-century Icelandic chemist that leads them to a crater in Iceland. Accompanied by Hans, a local guide, they descend from the crater into the very center of the Earth. The companions eventually find themselves in a mushroom forest on the shores of an immense underground sea. Henry, the Professor, and Hans sail across on a raft, surviving a storm and witnessing a battle between prehistoric sea monsters. On the opposite shore, they flee from primitive giants herding mastodons. When they find their route back to the surface blocked by fallen rock, the Professor uses dynamite to blast through. The sea, pouring into the hole, sweeps them out through another volcano. Three months after entering the Icelandic crater, they find they have journeyed 3,600 miles through the center of the Earth to Mount Aetna, Italy. This adaptation, part of the "Great Illustrated Classics" series, shortens the original tale and simplifies Verne's nineteenth-century flourishes. "Scarcely had his heavy feet resounded within our joint domicile than he shouted for me to attend upon him" is mercifully reduced to, "When he came home one day and began to call..." Still, the language retains an antique flavor, and the simple, black and white illustrations have the look of an old-fashioned comic strip. This edition should appeal to middle-grade readers seeking an action-packed classic. 2002 (orig. 1871), ABDO Publishing, Turner
Biography
A legendary French author and pioneer of the science fiction genre, Jules Verne wrote visionary tales of space, air, and underwater adventure in classics like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).