Jules, Verne - Libros y biografía

Ce roman de Jules Verne raconte une incroyable aventure, à travers laquelle se dessine le contexte de l'époque : la conquête du monde par la course à l'armement.

"L'Invasion de la mer" est souvent présenté comme le dernier roman de Jules Verne. L’histoire se déroule dans les années 1880 ; elle raconte un authentique projet, caractéristique de l'esprit colonial...

Un riche américain meurt et laisse une fortune de 60 millions de dollars sans héritier. Mais le millionnaire avait pensé à tout, y compris à un jeu qui transformerait le territoire américain en jeu de...

En décembre 1787, la Bounty quitte l’Angleterre sous le commandement du capitaine William Bligh, un homme cruel et colérique. Le navire fait voile vers Tahiti lorsqu’éclate une mutinerie menée par son...

Ayant découvert un manuscrit runique ancien, un savant, son neveu et leur guide entreprennent un voyage vers le centre de la Terre. Ils passent alors par un volcan éteint islandais. Ce roman est un habile...

Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Trading Co. and his team along with the company's guests, Mrs. Paulina Barnett and Thomas Black travel through the North West Territories of Canada...

The Gun Club of Baltimore is surely the most famous Gun Club in the world - for did not this madly ambitious group launch a capsule from the Earth's surface up through the atmosphere, and then beyond,...

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon...

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off...

The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community at Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend,...

In 19th century Russia a Tartar rebellion led by Feofar Khan separates mainland Russia from the Russian far east.The Tsar's brother isolated and surrounded in Siberia is making a last stand with his troops.The...

They laughed at his ideas of heavier-than-air flying machines. But he had the last laugh with the Albatross -- the most incredible flying machine ever built. Lord of the skies, Robur became the would-be...

Take a journey on a giant raft with Joam Garral down 800 Leagues on the Amazon. Garral, a Brazilian, lives on a thriving fazenda (plantation) in the Peruvian frontier with his loving family. But, his...

This story is a sequel to "Their Island Home," which takes up the adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson at the place where the author of the original narrative dropped them. "The Swiss Family Robinson"...

Axel Lidenbrock, the teenage narrator of the story, lives in Hamburg, Germany, with his uncle, Professor Otto Lidenbrock, an impetuous and single-minded professor of geology. The story, set in May 1863,...

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 finally reveals himself...

But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end. Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south...

In 1878 appeared Dick Sands, the epic of the slave trade. This picture of the wilds of Africa, its adventures and its dangers, the savage hunting both of beasts and men, has always been a favorite among...

When an unidentified "monster" threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and...

After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escapes the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island...

Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon?...

Mr. Kazallon thought that booking passage on a cargo ship from Charleston to Liverpool would be a charming way to return to his English homeland. If he only knew! A crazed sea captain, a disaster in...

This race-against-the-clock adventure features a mutiny, castaways on a remote island, earthquakes, whale hunting, dastardly villains, man against the elements, a rescue mission, and offbeat humor. There's...

There was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 3 Waterloo Place, London. The president, Sir Francis M -, made an important communication...

If I speak of myself in this story, it is because I have been deeply involved in its startling events, events doubtless among the most extraordinary which this twentieth century will witness. Sometimes...

Romanzo della maturità di Jules Verne, è l’avventura vissuta dall’investigatore capo Strock che si trova a dover dipanare il mistero che si cela dietro la comparsa di strane macchine.La fantascienza verniana...

Roman de l’aventure, roman de l’homme, roman de la science... Les périphrases ne manquent pas pour évoquer ce classique de Jules Verne. Depuis sa parution, les lecteurs ne se lassent pas de suivre les...

Sur la foi d'un message trouvé dans une bouteille et à demi rongé par l'eau de mer, le magnifique yacht anglais, le Duncan, part à la recherche du capitaine Grant naufragé. Les enfants du capitaine Grant...

Les passagers et l'équipage du navire «Le Chancellor» vont vivre de nombreuses épreuves: incapacité du capitaine à diriger son bateau, incendie, tempête, échouage, etc. Les passagers se réfugient sur...

Ce récit, inspiré d'un voyage réellement effectué par Jules Verne, nous conte une traversée mouvementée, riche en péripéties, de l'Atlantique, à bord du Great Eastern.