Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Paperback
by Jules Verne
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jules Verne, Frank Wynne, Jane SmileySeries:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-09-01Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780141441979ISBN-10:141441976UPC:9780141441979Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Action & Adventure, Science FictionBook Topic:Action & AdventureSize:7.96 x 4.88 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.49Product ID:SCWT5N46ZM
A new translation of one of the world's greatest adventure Stories Originally published in 1864, this Jules Verne classic has wowed generations of readers with its portrayal of an imaginary odyssey into a subterranean wonderland. When Axel deciphers an old parchment describing a secret passage through a volcano to the center of the earth, nothing will stop his eccentric Uncle Lidenbrock from setting out at once. With silent Hans as guide, the two men encounter natural hazards, prehistoric beasts, and other curiosities on their perilous, astonishing, terrifying trek through the underworld. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780141441979ISBN-10:141441976UPC:9780141441979Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Action & Adventure, Science FictionBook Topic:Action & AdventureSize:7.96 x 4.88 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.49Product ID:SCWT5N46ZM
Jules Verne, born at Nantes, France, in 1828, of legal and seafaring stock, was the author of innumerable adventure stories that combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science. Although he studied law at Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular stories, besides 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), include: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), A Trip to the Moon (1865), Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), and Michael Strogoff (1876). In addition, he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80). After a long and active career in literature, Jules Verne died at Amiens, France, in 1905. Jane Smiley's ten works of fiction include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Moo, A Thousand Acres (which won the Pulitzer Prize), and most recently the bestselling Horse Heaven.
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