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Today we take for granted the exploration of the fascinating submarine depths of the oceans, so ubiquitous are its many representations on our screens. It is therefore surprising to realise that in his thrilling 1869 novel Jules Verne was anticipating much which was then not even imagined by science. The enigmatic Captain Nemo takes his awe-inspiring Nautilus around the Oceans of the world exploring the deep with its wonders and horrors.

At the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, a mob of zealous balloon enthusiasts plans to conquer the sky in a state-of-the-art dirigible. When a stranger, the mysterious Robur, declares that the future belongs not to balloons but to heavier-than-air flying machines, the Institute scornfully dismisses the idea. But Robur demands vengeance—and has a unique flying machine that will allow him to take it.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of Jules Verne's first novels and remains one of his most audacious and imaginative. This audiobook uses the translation published anonymously by Routledge in 1876, recently identified as the work of the translator Jessie Campbell.

When Professor Aronnax agrees to investigate a series of attacks by a mysterious sea monster, he begins an incredible underwater journey that leads him from Atlantis to the South Pole. Through unforeseen dangers, surprise encounters, and exotic settings, this epic adventure is a tour-de-force of imagination and narrative grandeur. Jules Verne was remarkably successful in foretelling the wonders science held for the future. This, his most famous novel, earned him the title of "Father of Science Fiction."

Dans la Chine Impériale, un jeune milliardaire désœuvré et blasé, Kin-Fo décide de mourir en apprenant sa ruine. Recherchant dans la mort des émotions absentes de sa vie, il fait promettre à son mentor, le philosophe Wang, un ancien tueur Taïping, de le tuer sous deux mois pour bénéficier de l'assurance qu'il a souscrit à son bénéfice et celui de sa fiancée, la belle Lé-Ou. Un retournement du sort fait retrouver à Kin-Fo sa fortune mais le laisse condamné à mort par la promesse de Wang qui a disparu pour accomplir son forfait.

Jules Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.

En 1858, à l'extrême sud de l'Argentine, la navigation présente des dangers très importants. Le gouvernement décide de faire construire un phare sur l'île des états afin d'assurer une entière sécurité aux navires qui traversent ces parages. 3 gardiens sont chargés d'assurer le fonctionnement du phare pendant une période de 3 mois. Ces 3 hommes sont isolés sur cette côte inhospitalière et n'ont aucun moyen de communiquer avec l'extérieur.

Une expédition de secours s'organise et met les voiles vers le nord pour tenter de retrouver des hommes disparus en mer dans des circonstances héroïques. Équipés de manteaux de fourrure et de traîneaux à chiens, les personnages devront, comme le titre de la nouvelle l'indique, passer l'hiver emprisonnés dans les glaces du Groenland.

Russia, fine XIX secolo: il romanzo racconta il viaggio affrontato dal corriere dello Zar Michele Strogoff, inviato da Mosca a Irkutsk, capitale della Siberia orientale. La sua missione è avvisare il Granduca, fratello dello Zar, dell'imminente arrivo dell'orda dei Tartari guidata dal traditore russo Ivan Ogareff e dal feroce Feofar Khan. Il messaggio che deve consegnare dovrà avvertire il Granduca dei pericoli che corre ed è di massima importanza. Durante il viaggio Mosca-Irkutsk egli incontra i giornalisti Harry Blount e Alcide Jolivet e, soprattutto, Nadia Fedor.

Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the monster turns out to be the Nautilus, a giant submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole.

Phileas Fogg, a distinguished member of London's Reform Club, takes up a wager to circle the globe in just 80 days. Together with manservant Passepartout and a detective named Fix, Fogg makes a fantastic world tour utilizing every means of transportation available in the 1870s. This is a marvelous travelogue mixed with dazzling suspense, delightful fantasy, and lively comedy.

Professor Pierre Aronnax boards an American frigate commissioned to investigate a rash of attacks on international shipping by what is thought to be an amphibious monster. The supposed sea creature, which is actually the submarine Nautilus, sinks Aronnax's vessel and imprisons him along with his devoted servant Conseil and Ned Land, a temperamental harpooner.

Phileas Fogg is a man of regular orderly days, down to the minute. His acquaintances know where he will be and when, with perfect regularity. Discussion in the Reform Club turns to an article concerning a theorised journey around the world in only 80 days. From this a gentleman's bet is placed, and there is nothing more important to a gentleman than a bet! Mr Fogg's life is thrown into turmoil as he commences the journey around the world.

Mysterious entities take possession of a long deserted castle creating fear among the residents of the adjacent village of Werst, in Transylvania. The village sends two men to the castle to investigate, but they are repulsed by what the men feel are "supernatural" means. The heroes of the story, Count Franz de Telek and his man Rotzko learn of the mystery while passing through the village and become determined to solve it.

Der britische Gentlemen Phileas Fogg, Exzentriker in Sachen Pünktlichkeit, schließt mit den Mitgliedern seines noblen Londoner Herrenclubs eine abenteuerliche Wette ab: In 80 Tagen will er um die Welt reisen!

The Underground City is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community at Aberfoyle, 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 mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.

The essential novels of Jules Verne include the classics such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Enjoy all three novels in this enthralling science-fiction collection.

First Mate Shandon receives a mysterious letter asking him to construct a reinforced steamship in Liverpool. As he heads out for Melville Bay and the Arctic labyrinth, a crewman reveals himself to be John Hatteras, and his obsession, the North Pole. The captain is later abandoned by his crew and remains without resources at the coldest spot on earth. How can he find food and navigate the Polar Sea? And what will he find at the top of the world?

Jules Verne’s masterpiece, The Mysterious Island, is a fascinating story of five men and a dog who escape the American Civil War in a hot air balloon. A storm takes them far away and they land on an unknown island. One adventure follows another as they cope with pirate attacks and active volcanoes. After receiving a message in a bottle, they rescue another castaway on Tabor Island. In crisis situations, they are assisted by an unseen helper who once supplies medicine and another time beats back the pirates.

"Mathias Sandorf" est un roman d'aventures qui est dédié à titre posthume à Alexandre Dumas père, l'auteur du "Comte de Monte-Cristo" en 1844. Les deux romans ont des points communs, même s'ils sont bien différents : dans "Mathias Sandorf", le nationaliste hongrois éponyme, condamné à mort à la suite d'une tentative de coup d'État ratée, s'évade d'une prison autrichienne, devient riche et se venge des traîtres qui l'ont dénoncé.