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(0)Jules Verne
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An explorer obsessed with reaching the North Pole undertakes a harrowing expedition in this classic novel of adventure and survival in the Arctic.
Capt. John Hatteras will stop at nothing to reach the North Pole. After having a steamship built for the purpose, he embarks for terra incognita. But when he encounters a frozen sea, mutiny and shipwreck leave Hatteras and his remaining crew stranded on an island in the harsh Arctic winter. Even in the...
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Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery, 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 are cast away on an uninhabited Pacific island, where they must endure a series of adversities. Later, they encounter an African...
43) The Field of Ice
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The first-written of Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires" series, this novel traces the quest of a group of four Englishmen and one American to be the first to reach the North Pole. (Goodreads)
45) The Moon-Voyage
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Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but does not collide with the projectile. The asteroid had been captured by the Earth's gravity and had become a second moon.
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2024
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English
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Gun experts set their sights on shooting a man to the moon in these two novels by Jules Verne—now available together with an arresting new look!
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the members of The Baltimore Gun Club find themselves in a dilemma—without a war, there is no demand for their innovative gun designs. Eager for a new challenge, the club's President Barbicane sets an ambitious goal: to build the largest gun...
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the members of The Baltimore Gun Club find themselves in a dilemma—without a war, there is no demand for their innovative gun designs. Eager for a new challenge, the club's President Barbicane sets an ambitious goal: to build the largest gun...
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Extrait: "Quand dix heures sonnèrent, Michel Ardan, Barbicane et Nicholl firent leurs adieux aux nombreux amis qu'ils laissaient sur terre. Les deux chiens, destinés à acclimater la race canine sur les continents lunaires, étaient déjà emprisonnés dans le projectile. Les trois voyageurs s'approchèrent de l'orifice de l'énorme tube de fonte, et une grue volante les descendit jusqu'au chapeau conique du boulet."
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Extrait: "Il y avait une grande affluence d'auditeurs, le 14 janvier 1862, à la séance de la Société royale géographique de Londres, Waterloo place, 3. Le président, Sir Francis M..., faisait à ses honorables collègues une importante communication dans un discours fréquemment interrompu par les applaudissements."
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2012
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English
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The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of Jules Verne. When
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Extrait: " « Ces journaux anglais sont vraiment bien faits! » se dit à lui-même le bon docteur en se renversant dans un grand fauteuil de cuir. Le docteur Sarrasin avait toute sa vie pratiqué le monologue, qui est une des formes de la distraction sous leurs lunettes d'acier, de physionomie à la fois grave et aimable, un de ces individus dont on se dit à première vue: voilà un brave homme. À cette heure matinale, bien que sa tenue ne trahit...
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2009
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English
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Scarcely more than a century after Jules Verne published one of the most enduring and captivating novels of the nineteenth century in 1865-From the Earth to the Moon-Apollo 8 circled the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968 carrying the first human beings to fly around another celestial body. With uncanny futuristic vision, Verne had not only anticipated that the launch would take place from Florida, but also foresaw a three man crew traveling
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The Purchase of the North Pole is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1889. It is the third and last novel of the Baltimore Gun Club, first appearing in From the Earth to the Moon, and later in Around the Moon, featuring the same characters but set twenty years later.
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Deutsch
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Jules Verne: Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen-Mit 32 Illustrationen und einer Karte der Reiseroute Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert, mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung, verlinktem eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und zahllreichen verlinkten Fußnoten Vor der Eröffnung des Suezkanals und der Fertigstellung der transamerikanischen Eisenbahn (beides 1869) war eine Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit. Beide Ereignisse fielen in Jules...
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Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an enthralling odyssey that takes readers on an extraordinary expedition into the very bowels of the Earth, unlocking the mysteries that lie beneath the surface. Published in 1864, this timeless adventure begins with the eccentric Professor Otto Lidenbrock, whose insatiable thirst for knowledge propels him to uncover an ancient Icelandic manuscript containing cryptic clues to a subterranean world.
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