A Journey to the Center of the Earth

jules verne

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.

Genres classicsscience fictionfictionadventurefantasyfranceaudiobookliteraturenovelsfrench literature

416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 25,1864

Places

hamburg, reykjavik (reykjavík), snæfellsjökull, stromboli,

This edition

Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: January 1, 1967 by Scholastic
ISBN: 9780447134094
ASIN: 0447134094
Language: English

Characters More characters

Axel

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Otto Liedenbrock

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Hans Bjelke

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Gräuben

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About the author

jules verne

Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."

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