Jules Verne - Libros y biografía

This book travesties in Jules Verne's inimitable and fascinating style the numerous ponderous books of African travel and adventure. In thrilling interest it surpasses them all, while the illustrations...

Verne's story describes a trip on the "Great Eastern," from Liverpool to New York, and a journey afterwards up the Hudson and to the Falls of Niagara. The descriptive parts of the story are free from...

This carefully crafted ebook: "EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS – Complete Collection: 41 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:...

Jules Verne, in this chief of his works, has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventure of which we have any written record—to give the history, "from the time of Hanno and Herodotus...

Jules Verne has invented so many tales of adventure that he is quite at home when he comes to chronicle the wonderful feats of exploration which testify that truth is stranger than fiction. The Great...

The scene of Verne's adventure tale is laid in Florida, and the book is full of thrilling adventures and marvellous escapes by land and water. The hero, Mr. Burbank, a Northerner, for some years settled...

Like most of Jules Verne's books it is the story of a journey. Some acrobats wish to travel from California to their native France, and having no money they determine to go in their caravan northwards...

Jules Verne's 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth & The Mysterious Island (Illustrated Edition)' takes readers on an unforgettable adventure filled with exploration, mystery, and scientific curiosity....

In Jules Verne's novel 'The Pearl of Lima', readers are transported into the world of high adventure and exploration. Set in the 19th century, the book follows the journey of a group of intrepid adventurers...

In these days, when so many distinguished writers have set themselves to the task of producing books which boys as well as adults will be delighted to read, Jules Verne still remains the master in his...

Jules Verne! Among boys a name to conjure with. What memories of half-forgotten books does it bring back! Journeys into the Interior of the Earth, Voyages on Comets, Journeys to the Moon, Submarine Boats—all...

The Children of Captain Grant is a novel by Jules Verne and was published in 1867. Captain Grant of the Britannia got shipwrecked and Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland, together with Grant's children...

A story from the untiring pen of Jules Verne has always been welcomed from a very wide circle of readers. No one that we ever knew has yet tired of 'the wward's ' works. He takes his characters through...

The ubiquitous interviewer has been chosen as the motif of this feat of Jules Verne's imagination, and in the company of Claudius Bombarnac, special correspondent of the Twentieth Century, the reader...

This forms the third and concluding volume of Verne's Celebrated Travels an Travellers. One is struck with the great mass of interesting matter, geographical, ethnological, and other, which is here compacted...

Hardly ever in literature has any author adopted the plot of another and carried it forward beyond the lines of its creator. Yet this is precisely what Jules Verne has done with Poe's story called Narrative...

This book hinges upon the extraordinary adventures of a mad French inventor who has imagined a diabolical engine of war that in its explosive effects surpasses anything in this direction ever conceived...

This attractive digital edition of one of this prophetic writers last and most imaginative books is a companion volume to his aeroplane-prediction romance "Robin the Conqueror." In this story, the scenes...

In the spring of 1863 Professor Lidenbrock finds a secret, runic manuscript, that was written by an Icelandic alchemist hundreds of years before. It tells about a journey to the center of the earth which...

Jules Verne has not written a more sane and well-sustained story than this. The excellent descriptions of a wild region in Transylvania and the accounts of the homely ways and daily life of the shepherds...

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This masterpiece relates entirely to the science of astronomy. It is a sequel to "All Around The Moon," and continues the career of Hector Servadac and 'his friends on the comet " Gallia," and relates...

This time Mr. Verne's novel is set in beautiful Norway. The wealthy schoolfriend of schoolmaster Malarius discovers that Erik, one of his students, is actually an orphan and was raised by a local fisherman....

Jan van Mitten, a dutch businessman, meets his tobacco dealer Keraban in Istanbul. The latter decides to take Jan and his employee Bruno to his home on the other side of the Bosporus. When Keraban learns...

"Five Weeks In A Balloon" is an adventure novel that describes the journey of three men, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, Dick Kennedy and their servant Joe in a balloon in Africa. On their journey from East to West...

Robur, a character very much like Verne's maybe best-known hero Captain Nemo, tries to build the world's heavier-than-air-ship, the Albatross. He gets all the publicity, which is not very much what one...

"The Green Ray" is in Jules Verne's best manner: it contains some of the impossibilites raisonnets which are at once his distinguishing characteristic and the secret of his world wide popularity. Most...

The same wonderful power of describing the marvellous so as to make it seem reality, that ever distinguishes the works of Jules Verne from the writings of all other authors of fiction is displayed to...

In "Mathias Sandorf" we have certainly a most pretentious volume containing over a hundred illustrations, in which the most tragic events of this most tragic story are graphically portrayed. Indeed so...

The Lottery Ticket is not one of Mr. Verne's typical sea-air-adventure-stories, although it belongs to the author's well-known series called Voyages Extraordinaires. Ole Kamp, a fisherman, promises his...