Jules Verne

"Scientific arguments alone could have any weight with Professor Liedenbrock. Now there were good ones against the practicability of such a journey. Penetrate to the center of the earth! Wha…

"The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras" (French: «Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras») is an adventure novel by Jules Verne in two parts: «The English at the North Pole» (Fr…

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas …

Engineer Cyrus Smith, his black servant Nab, war correspondent Gedeon Spilett, sailor Pencroff and his foster son Harbert as well as Smith's dog Top flee in a free balloon from the Richmond,…

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" (French: «Voyage au centre de la Terre», also translated under the titles «A Journey to the Centre of the Earth» and «A Journey to the Interior of the Ea…

"In Search of the Castaways" (French: «Les Enfants du capitaine Grant», lit. «The Children of Captain Grant») is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–1868. The origina…

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (French: «Vingt mille lieues sous les mers») is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of …

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires se…

&quot;Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen" (French: «Cinq semaines en ballon») is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. <br/> It is the first Verne no…

In Philadelphia (USA) a club of amateur aircraftmen meets and discusses the construction of a steerable airship, when suddenly a stranger named Robur appears and claims to already own such an air…

Professor Pierre Aronnax was commissioned by the American government in 1867 to get to the bottom of mysterious shipping accidents in the Pacific. Instead of finding the suspected sea monster, he…

During the American Civil War, the coast of the southern states is largely blocked and trade in cotton collapses. A young merchant devises a plan to take advantage of this situation and make a pr…

&quot;From the Earth to the Moon" (French: «De la terre à la lune») is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons afi…

Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a stranger jumps into its car. The unexpected passenger&apos;s only intent is to take the balloon as high as it will go, even at the cost of…

Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first nove…