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Off on a Comet! by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Nearly a century before space travel captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers and readers, Jules Verne envisioned an incident in which a comet impact in the vicinity of Gibraltar sends a piece of the Earth on a two-year trip around the solar system. Thirty-six unsuspecting individuals of var ...Show more
Off on a Comet by Jules Verne
Category: Children's Classics | Series: The\Jules Verne Collection
Brace yourself for an out-of-this-world adventure in this Jules Verne classic following a small group of survivors set adrift in space by a comet--now with an arresting new look! A comet collides with Earth, causing a portion of the world to go floating off into space with it. On this new asteroid, thir ...Show more
The Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne
Category: Children's Classics
In this adaptation of the classic novel, the entire cast of characters has been transformed into anthropomorphic animals. It begins with a message...actually three water damaged messages found in a bottle removed from the belly of a shark. Written in three different languages the messages reveal that th ...Show more
The Golden Volcano - The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript by Jules Verne; Edward Baxter (Translator, Editor); Olivier Dumas (Preface by)
Category: Classics | Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination Ser.
The Golden Volcano thrusts two Canadian cousins--unexpectedly bequeathed a mining claim in the Klondike--into the middle of the gold rush, where they encounter disease, disaster, extremes of weather, and human nature twisted by a passion for gold. A deathbed confidence sends the two searching for a fabu ...Show more
The Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Category: Classics
In this riveting tale, German professor Otto Lidenbrock decides to act on his belief that there are volcanic passages leading to the very center of the Earth itself, by leading an expedition through them to the depths of the planet. Teaming up with his nephew Axel, the professor and his guide Hans make ...Show more
The Mysterious Island by Jules VERNE
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Mysterious Island is another exquisite novel written by the master of adventure writing, Jules Verne. The novel has been seen as the sequel to two other famous novels written by the same author: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaway. The story revolves around five Amer ...Show more
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Category: Children's Classics | Series: The\Jules Verne Collection
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Category: Classics
With little more than courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escaped the siege of Richmond-by hot-air balloon. They have no idea if they'll ever see civilization again-especially when they're swept off by a raging storm to the shores of an uncharted island.
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne; Alex Dolby (Introduction by); W.H.G. Kingston (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
rare edition printed About The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Unde ...Show more
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are ...Show more
The Story of Captain Nemo by Jules Verne
Category: Children's Classics
"Don't you worry, son. Whatever it is that's been killing the sailors, I will kill it." In this science-fiction classic - reimagined by Dave Eggers in modern times, and from the point of view of the fourteen-year-old Consuelo - the famous oceanographer Pierre Arronax sets sail from New York to hunt ...Show more
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
Category: Classics
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fictiongenre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about spa ...Show more