Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, in English. The story opens some time after the end of the American Civil War. The Baltimore Gun Club, a society dedicated to the design of weapons of all kinds (especially cannons), comes together when Impey Barbicane, its president, calls them to support his latest idea. He's done some calculations and believes that they could...
"The 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" (French: "Les Anglais au pôle nord") and "The desert of ice" (French: "Le Désert de glace"). The novel was published for the first time in 1864. The novel, set in 1861, described adventures of British...
"The Underground City", by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the...
"The Survivors of the Chancellor" (French: "Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon") is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary). At the beginning of its voyage, the Chancellor carried eight passengers and twenty crew members. By...
During the Civil War, the engineer Smith, Neb his servant, the Spilett journalist, the sailor Pencroff and Harbert teenager to escape the southerners holding prisoners, fleeing with a ball. They land in calamity on an uncharted island they baptize "Lincoln Island." This island appears deserted but a mystery hangs over her and shipwrecked feel a benevolent and enigmatic...
"The Mysterious Island" (French: "L'Île mystérieuse") is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. 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 vastly different from those books. The plot focuses on the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific....
"The Master of the World" (French: Maître du monde), published in 1904, is one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne. It is a sequel to "Robur the Conqueror". At the time Verne wrote the novel, his health was failing. "The Master of the World" is a "black novel," filled with foreboding and fear of the rise of tyrants such as the novel's...
"The English at the North Pole" (French: Les Anglais au pôle nord) was published for the first time in 1864. The novel, set in 1861, described adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is to reach the place no matter what. Mutiny by the crew results in...
"The Adventures of a Special Correspondent" or "Claudius Bombarnac" (French: "Claudius Bombarnac", 1893) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. Claudius Bombarnac, a reporter is assigned by the "Twentieth Century" to cover the travels of the Grand Transasiatic Railway which runs between Uzun Ada, Turkestan and Peking, China. Accompanying him on this journey is an...
"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 book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland...
"Robur the Conqueror" (French: "Robur-le-Conquérant") is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne, published in 1886. It is also known as "The Clipper of the Clouds". The story begins with strange lights and sounds, including blaring trumpet music, reported in the skies all over the world. The events are capped by the mysterious appearance of black flags with gold suns atop tall...
"Around the World in Eighty Days" (French: "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours") is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (equal to about £1.6 million in 2015) set by his friends at...
"Off on a Comet" (French: "Hector Servadac") is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that was carried away by the comet there remained a total of...
"Michael Strogoff" (French: "Michel Strogoff") is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. Critics, including Leonard S. Davidow, writing from Reading, Pennsylvania, in his 1937 introduction to The Spencer Press reprint as a volume in its "Classic Romances of Literature" series consider it one of Verne's best books. Davidow wrote, "Jules Verne has written no better book than...
"Godfrey Morgan" (French: "L'École des Robinsons", literally "The School for Robinsons"), also published as "School for Crusoes", is an 1882 adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel tells of a wealthy young man, Godfrey Morgan who, with his deportment instructor, Professor T. Artelett, embark from San Francisco, California on a round-the-world ocean voyage. They...
"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 novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical,...
"Facing the Flag" or "For the Flag" (French: "Face au drapeau") is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages Extraordinaires (Extraordinary Voyages) series. Thomas Roch, a brilliant French inventor, has designed the Fulgurator, a weapon so powerful that "the state which acquired it would become absolute master of earth and ocean." However, unable...
"Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon" (French: "La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone") is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. It has also been published as "The Giant Raft". Unlike many of his other novels, this story does not have any science fiction elements. It is an adventure novel. This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the...
In this novel, published in this edition as "An Antarctic Mystery" but also known as "The Sphinx of the Ice Fields", Captain Len Guy's brother is on the ship Jane when it goes missing, and the Captain must convince the crew of the Halbrane to take a long and dangerous trip to Antarctic in hope of finding his brother and any other survivors of the Jane. But strange as the...
All Around the Moon (French: Autour de la Lune, 1870), Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel which continues the trip to the moon which was only partially described in the previous novel. It was later combined with From the Earth to the Moon to create A Trip to the Moon and Around It. Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space...
This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains 36 of Jules Verne's best known works. Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer who, along with English author H.G. Wells, is regarded as the "Father of Science Fiction." 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea A Journey To The Center Of The Earth Around The World In Eighty Days The Mysterious Island From The Earth To The Moon Around The Moon A...
Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback: 72 p. Publisher: Stone Arch Books (September 1, 2007) ISBN10: 1598898884 "The graphic novel format makes a difficult text accessible to younger readers. Good."-Librarian, Albuquerque Public Schools Product Description: Axel and his uncle find a note that describes a path to Earths center! The men climb deep inside a volcano and discover...