Jules Verne

"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...

"Armed with little more than their courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escape the siege of Richmond, Virginia--but not by steamboat, by train, or even on foot. Instead, these desperate but resourceful souls construct a hot-air balloon and climb aboard--with no idea if they will ever see civilization again. Swept off course by a raging storm, they land on the shores of an uncharted island"--Page 4 of cover.

Science professor Trevor Anderson's radical theories have tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean, the two find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. They go on a quest to find out what has happened to Trevor's missing brother, also a scientist. Trevor, Sean and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. There, they discover a bizarre...

A novel originally written in 1863 presents a forecast of Paris in 1960, a world where money and technology control society and a young poet finds himself out of place in the materialistic, mechanistic society.

Jules Verne's classic science fiction sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon", "Round the Moon" is a forward-looking examination of the possibilities of space travel. One of the first books to look at the challenges and adventures of space travel, "Round the Moon" starts off where "From the Earth to the Moon" left off. We follow the crew of the projectile built by the Baltimore Gun Club on a journey towards their intended destination. Will they make...

Originally published as two separate books, Jules Verne's eerily prescient tale of mankind's first visit to the Moon is properly presented here in one complete volume. "From the Earth to the Moon" (first published in 1865) opens just after the close of the Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club embarks on a massive project: to build a cannon and with it, launch a projectile to the Moon. Club President Impey Barbicane and armorer Captain Nicholl of Philadelphia...

The abridged adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.

A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.

A graphic novel adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story about of the adventures of Professor Lindenbrock and his companions as they explore a volcanic crater in Iceland that leads them to the center of the Earth.