The Works of Jules Verne, Vol. 2 - Couverture souple

Verne, Jules

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1434415791 ISBN 13 : 9781434415790

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2024

Synopsis

Jules Gabriel Verne 1828-1905) was a French Breton author who pioneered the science-fiction genre and is best known for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. This volume contains "A Trip to the Center of the Earth" -- a non-traditional translation of the title -- and one of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras -- The English at the North Pole.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Five Weeks in aB alloon, Jules Verne wrote in rapid succession several truly masterly tales. Of these remarkable inventions of the human mind, A Journey to the Center of theE arth was the first to be completed in its present form. It was published in 1864, in a series of books by Verne, denominated Voyages Extraordinaires. This series, started in that year by the publisher Hetsel, has been continued to the present time. This particular Voyage has sometimes been declared our authors masterpiece. In it he for the first time gives free rein to that bold yet scientifically exact imagination whereby he has constructed for us in fancy the entire universe. There is nothing in all the daring visions of this tale which even to-day our scientists would declare impossible. The interior of the earth is still unknown; and there may well be rifts, passages, descending from extinct volcanoes and penetrating far within. There may well be huge cavities, bubbles left in the cooling mass, vast enough to harbor inland seas, and shelter many of the ancient forms of life now extinct upon earths surface. The main scientific objection to this, as indeed to most of the more fanciful of Verne stales, lies in the extravagant means he employs to bring his explorers home again from their reckless ventures. But, as romance obviously demands their return somehow, science discreetly accepts in silence the astonishing accidents and coincidences whereby they escape the doom they have invited.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1434415791
• ISBN 13: 9781434415790
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Éditeur: Horne Charles F
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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