Jules Verne
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In London, 1872, a man named Phileas Fogg makes a bet with his friends that he can travel across the entire planet in eighty days. The wager? More than half his sizable fortune -- and the exact same amount of money that was stolen from a nearby bank a day earlier. Fogg hastily departs in the company of Passepartout, his personal attendant, on a journey that will take the two men all over the wide world by way of every known means of transportation....
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In its first English translation in more than 100 years, a story of a world in which energy shortages lead a group of Americans to devise a radical solution, for their own gain, which puts the whole earth at risk In one of his best-known books, From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne described how a group of men in the Gun Club of Baltimore used a giant cannon to send a spacecraft to the moon. Now, in this sequel,...
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First English edition of a classic Verne adventure, with a unique feminist twist.
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure...
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Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster. With help from the world's greatest harpooner, the men discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine with a mysterious leader, Captain Nemo. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core expert, an expanded introduction, bolded glossary words...
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Jules Verne est un écrivain français dont l'œuvre est, pour la plus grande partie, constituée de romans d'aventures évoquant les progrès scientifiques du XIXe siècle.
Dans ces trois grands romans, le fantastique se mêle à la prospective scientifique dans des histoires rocambolesques pleines de curiosités.
Cet ouvrage contient trois des plus fameux romans de Jules Verne :
Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873)
L'Île mystérieuse...
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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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Brilliant Victor Cyprien loves a South African mining heiress, but needs money. A failure at diamond mining, he instead creates a spectacular artificial gem of his own. The sudden disappearance of this "Star of the South" leads Victor and his romantic rivals on a wild chase across the veldt-but are they on the right track?
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The Blockade Runners (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages). An English translation was published in 1874. The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in...
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The Waif Of The "Cynthia", synopsis: The plot revolved around a dark-haired boy called Erik in a family of blond Norwegians. He was discovered by them in the sea as a baby tied to a ship's buoy. There is however something wrong with him: he has not all the characteristic physical traits of the Scandinavian peoples. He has all the appearance of a Celtic. Dr. Schwaryencrona takes him under his wing and ends up discovering that Erik was adopted by a...
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This superb collection of classic science fiction features the best of Jules Verne's epic adventure stories, including Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Often called the "father of science fiction," Verne was a masterful storyteller and visionary, anticipating such technological...
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'Two Years' Vacation’ is a writing work of a French novelist Jules Verne (fr. Jules Verne, 1828-1905). * "Two Years' Vacation" is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. The novel is about little "Robinsons". The lead characters are kids, who found themselves in extreme circumstances. They have, experienced a lot: despair and hope, fights against the elements and people, but learnt how to bear a loss, how to do battle with nature and themselves,...
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Jules Verne's "Five Weeks in a Balloon" is a satire of the myriad books on African travel contemporary with its publication - although so far as the landscape, inhabitants, animals, and features of the countries are described, it is completely accurate. An abundantly amusing and interesting tale, this is a book that will entertain a wide range of readers, and one that would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf.
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Le scientifique-physiologiste Ox arrive à Kikandon, en Flandre occidentale, avec son assistant. Comme il l'a dit, son objectif est d'illuminer complètement la ville avec du gaz oxhydrique émis par l'air. Seulement, personne ne savait si c'était vrai. Bientt, dans une ville paisible et non pressée, des choses étranges ont commencé à se produire, se transformant en une „épidémie".
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En 1876, un innocent est accusé d'un meurtre qu'il n'a pas commis en Livonie (actuelle Estonie et Lettonie); en toile de fond, il y a l'hostilité entre, d'un cté, les Russes d'origine slave, pauvres, et, de l'autre, les Russes d'origine allemande, riches (bourgeois ou nobles).
Jules Verne est un écrivain français dont l'œuvre est, pour la plus grande partie, constituée de romans d'aventures évoquant les progrès scientifiques du XIXe siècle....
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Les aventures extraordinaires d'un emblématique capitaine, héros romantique en quête d'un apaisement qu'il poursuit sans jamais l'atteindre
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, publié en 1870. Il est le sixième de la série des Voyages Extraordinaires; il fait suite aux Enfants du capitaine Grant et se complète par l'Île mystérieuse.
Un monstre marin de proportions gigantesques répand la terreur sur...
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In the spirit of Around the World in Eighty Days, Verne's 1893 adventure follows a young reporter assigned to cover the Grand Transasiatic Railway, running between Turkestan and China. While looking for his article's hero, Bombarnac finds himself traveling with a man trying to break the global-travel speed record, a stowaway, and robber-warlords seeking an onboard treasure bound for Persia.
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À bord du James-Cook, le capitaine Gibson attend de pouvoir partir de Nouvelle-Zélande pour rejoindre la Nouvelle-Irlande, mais son équipage n'est pas au complet à cause de désertions. Flig Balt, son maître d'équipage, et Vin Mod, un de ses matelots, se chargent alors de recruter quatre nouveaux matelots cherchant avant tout l'argent facile. Avec cet équipage recomposé, il doit retrouver son fils, Nat Gibson, et l'armateur du navire, M. Hawkins,...
100) Da Terra à Lua
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Com o fim da guerra da Secessão, os Estados Unidos vivem um período de paz. Porém, um grupo de especialistas em balística não vê com bons olhos ficar de braços cruzados. Assim, decidem enfrentar um novo desafio: construir um gigantesco canhão que irá disparar um projétil cujo objetivo é chegar à lua. A notícia espalha-se depressa por todo o mundo e eis que surge um voluntário disposto a embarcar em tão perigosa viagem. E assim, em vez...
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