"As one of the many installments in Jules Verne's Voyage Extraordinaire series, Journey to the Center of the Earth promises high stakes and thrilling adventure. When Professor Otto Lidenbrock bought an ancient runic manuscript, which chronicles the livesof Norwegian Kings, he did not expect to learn of anything but the history of Icelandic leaders. However, upon further inspection, Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, find that the manuscript includes...

"This new and completely original translation of Around the World in Eighty Daysrenders Jules Verne's classic novel in a style that is both more understandable and more faithful to the spirit of the original French text than the commonly reprinted older English editions. Many of these older translations were acceptable when they were first published 150 years ago, but were translated with a Victorian British audience in mind. Their style is now very...

This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.

This is Jules Verne's original sequel to a book that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. As Captain Len Guy starts on a voyage to search for his brother, events unfold with rapid speed. The narrative proceeds to build up our expectations of a spectacular "revelation" as only Verne can. At the same time the novel is very scientific and detailed. --Amazon.com. This...

This novel from the author of Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth captures the terror and tragedy of a shipwreck. This 1875 novel portrays in devastating detail the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, in the form of a diary written by one of its passengers, J. R. Kazallon. Carrying eight travelers and twenty crew members, the Chancellor sets sail from Charleston, South Carolina. Nearly a month...

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a unique addition to Jules Verne's beloved adventure series, Voyages Extraordinaire, as it is among the few Verne novels that does not include elements of science fiction. Instead, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon combines the adventure genre with a murder mystery. After being falsely accused of a crime, Joam Garral was forced to flee Brazil. Now, many years later, he is living on a thriving Peruvian plantation...

Five Weeks in a Balloon is not only the first installment in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaires series, but also the first of Verne's works to earn him widespread popularity as a writer of science fiction and adventure novels. Following his invention of an ingenious new air balloon capable of long-distance flight, Dr. Samuel Fergusson embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with his trusted servant, Joe, and loyal friend, Dick Kennedy....

A fantastic classic adventure novel by the master of the genre Jules Verne. The reporter Claudius Bombarnac is sent to Asia by the journal "The Twentieth Century" to report on the new Grand Transasiatic Railway.

Une édition de référence du Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours de Jules Verne, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « — Un bon Anglais ne plaisante jamais, quand il s'agit d'une chose aussi sérieuse qu'un pari, répondit Phileas Fogg. Je parie vingt mille livres contre qui voudra que je ferai le tour de la Terre en quatre-vingts jours ou moins, soit dix-neuf cent vingt heures ou cent quinze mille deux cents...

"Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers" de Jules Verne est un classique de la littérature d'aventure. Le professeur Aronnax, son assistant Conseil et le harponneur Ned Land, se retrouvent pris au piège à bord d'un mystérieux sous-marin, le Nautilus, dirigé par le capitaine Nemo. Au fil de leur voyage sous-marin, ils découvrent des merveilles de la nature, mais aussi les terribles secrets du capitaine Nemo et de son navire. Avec une prose captivante...