This new translation is faithful to the lyricism, verve, and humour of the original, and is the only annotated edition available.

A Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew...

The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the geologist—together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans—discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne’s imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor. As David Brin notes in his Introduction, though Verne never knew the term “science fiction,” Journey to the Centre of the Earth is “inarguably one of the wellsprings from which it all began.”

The works of Jules Verne are collected in this massive anthology. The work includes a biography about the life and times of Jules Verne, and annotated summaries about his most famous novels. Works Include: The Life and Times of Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days Facing the Flag Five Weeks in a Balloon From the Earth to the Moon The Fur Country Godfrey Morgan Journey to the Centre of the Earth The Master of the World Michael Strogoff The Moon-Voyage The Mysterious Island Off on a Comet OR Hector Servadac Robur the Conqueror The Secret of the Island) The Survivors of the Chancellor Ticket No. 9672 Topsy-Turvy Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The Underground City A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) The Waif of the 'Cynthia' A Winter Amid the Ice

Journey to the Center of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth

**This paperback version is:*Re-formatted and added clear table of content.*Checked for errors to bring you the best reading experience.*Added detailed author biography.*Added critical review for you to get more aspects of the book.Most scientists believed that the fierce heat and tremendous pressure would make a journey to the Earth's centre impossible. When Professor Lindenbrock decides to prove them wrong it is the beginning of an amazing adventure, full of surprising discoveries and unpredictable threats.When Axel - the Professor's nephew - agrees to join his uncle's expedition, he has no idea of the dangers which lie ahead of him. Can he and his companions survive their encounters with the strange creatures which inhabit the depths of the Earth, and will they ever return safely to their families and friends?A Journey into the Centre of the Earth is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre in 1864). This 1877 translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson is considered the most faithful, though it has some slight rewrites.

"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 Earth") is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano. From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite as well as other Verne stories, since most of his ideas about what the interior of the Earth contains have since been disproved, but it still manages to captivate audiences when regarded as a classic fantasy novel.

Journey to the Center of the Earth epitomizes the subterranean fiction genre. Author Jules Verne leads readers deep below the world's surface to the core of his inventive, visionary mind.An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's core. Professor Lidenbrock can't resist the opportunity to investigate, and with his nephew Axel, he sets off across Iceland in the company of Hans Bjelke, a native guide. The expedition descends into an extinct volcano toward a sunless sea, where they encounter a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life - a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence.

Jules Verne's third science fiction novel describes the discovery and exploration of a secret tunnel which leads through a volcano to the centre of the Earth. The leader of the expedition, together with his ward and joined by his nephew and an Icelandic guide commence the journey.