Around the World in Eighty Days - formato ePub

Estados Unidos, siglo XIX. Impey Barbicane, presidente del Gun Club, convoca una asamblea. La guerra ha acabado y ya no pueden probar sus nuevos cañones. Pero... ¿y si inventaran uno que sí pudieran usar?...

El profesor alemán Otto Lidenbrock descubre un escrito cifrado de un sabio islandés del siglo XII que afirma haber llegado al centro de la Tierra: Arne Saknussemm (basado en la figura de Arne Magnussen,...

El flemático y solitario caballero inglés Phileas Fogg abandonará su vida de escrupulosa disciplina para cumplir con una apuesta con sus colegas del Reform Club, en la que arriesgará la mitad de su fortuna...

Al Gun-Club llega la noticia de que el profesor Barbicane tiene un proyecto innovador: lanzar un proyectil a la Luna. La idea gusta mucho entre los socios del Club, que, como centro de investigación armamentística,...

Cuando Verne ideó la construcción del Nautilus, escribió a Hetzel, su editor y amigo: «Le aseguro que su arca estará mejor equipada que la de Noé». Verne, que había visitado ya los centros de la Tierra...

Uno de los clásicos de aventuras más populares de todos los tiempos, en edición íntegra y con notas explicativas y de vocabulario Phileas Fogg, un flemático inglés, ha apostado su fortuna a que dará...

El doctor Fergusson, su amigo Dick y el criado Joe se montarán en un globo aerostático e intentarán la travesía de África. Novela típicamente de aventuras, la sucesión de arriesgadas peripecias mantiene...

Cuando en el ruinoso y deshabitado castillo del barón Rodolfo de Gortz, cercano a la aldea de Werst en los montes Cárpatos que dominan la región de Transilvania, se empiezan a advertir inesperadamente...

Esta obra surgió de la fascinación que sobre Verne ejerció siempre "La narración de Arthur Gordon Pym", de Edgar Allan Poe, y su misterioso final inacabado. Veinte años antes había escrito: «¿Quién la...

Un jeroglífico medieval casi indescifrable puede permanecer luengos siglos durmiendo entre las hojas de un libro viejo. Pero, cuando por azar caiga en manos del audaz profesor Otto Lidenbrock de Hamburgo,...

El Nautilus és un increïble invent de l'enginyeria naval, però també un museu on un home culte amaga un secret. Per què navega sense descans? Verne no en dóna més dades i Aronnax, el narrador, a penes...

Phileas Fogg ha apostado una gran suma de dinero a que es capaz de dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días, gracias a los distintos medios de locomoción de su época. Una aventura en la que habrá momentos de...

"Viaje al centro de la Tierra" es la segunda aventura imaginada por Julio Verne de una larga serie que, con más de cincuenta entregas, estaría escribiendo durante toda su vida. Sin duda Verne tenía un...

La colección «Alfaguara Clásicos» pone al alcance de los jóvenes lectores esta cuidada edición íntegra de un clásico de la literatura de aventuras, escrito por uno de los autores fundacionales de la ciencia...

Un clásico de Jules Verne.La ciudad de Irkutsk, capital de la Siberia Oriental, ha quedado incomunicada a causa de la sublevación tártara. Es necesario que alguien ponga sobre aviso al Gran Duque, hermano...

Un clásico de Jules Verne.El obstinado profesor Lidenbrock descifra un criptograma del alquimista Arne Saknussemm y llega a la conclusión de que es posible viajar al centro de la Tierra.Por el cráter...

When a confident college student's world is turned upside down by an unexpected discovery, she finds herself entangled in a relationship that challenges her understanding of love and identity. As she...

In Cops Gone Bad by Donald E. McInnis,  the young lawyer Andrew Jackson Hawke finds himself deeply embroiled in another aspect of the legal system. This time he faces something few people talk about:...

With her fingerprints on the murder weapon and a police chief with his own agenda, Sydney ushers in the New Year behind bars. Soon there is another body, more damning fingerprints, and a crazy Cajun who's...

Ronda sat on her patio and watched the sunrise in deep thought about her family. After being woken up by a call from her father at four in the morning. After her father received a strange call about his...

She lost everything she built, he was built to lose everything, and the Heavens themselves are duty-bound to keep them apart. Charlotte Brant, former detective and present-day pariah, has just been rebuilding...

Forged masterpieces. A failed assassination. The metaverse.In the heart of the Austrian Alps, Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team are drawn into a web of danger and deception when a former colleague...

A Steamy Romantasy Suspense Series A century of war.A cursed and dying world. A tenuous truce. And a rigid prophecy that could save it all. Take a steamy, harrowing but steamy carriage ride across Kambria...

From Bay Street Finance Maven... Dana McIntyre is a Bay Street Financial maven. Successful and respected, she has built a reputation for having the right answers at the right time. It all comes crashing...

BrianHere's the deal. My baby sister's off living her fairytale honeymoon, and one of my best friends ditched his responsibilities to chase after true love. So now, the reins of a multi-billion-dollar...

Peril prowls the empire's roads and the halls of power. With danger around every corner, there are decisions to make and consequences to bear as Lord Scanlon's schemes to usurp the empire wax and wane...

Enjoy this steamy wolf shifter paranormal romance series by best-selling author Ebony Quinn… In a world where wolf shifters turn feral without their fated mates, one cursed pack is running out of time... Amber...

Sometimes a family is an onion farmer discovering herself on sabbatical, her alien girlfriend, and their arctic moon. A short, sapphic romance/coming out story starring a trans protagonist.

Technology is power, especially in the world where both are sparse. Would those possessing the knowledge be persuaded to share?Drawn by a vague rumor of an industrialized state out west, Golden Dragon...

A boy with legendary magic. A cursed pirate captain. An eternal ship. Will Ilyanson has a secret which he keeps close to his chest, even though it could save him from his mundane existence as the son...

A half-siren girl befriends a deaf boy.A vendetta between a teenager and her dad's stubborn ram continues into the afterlife.A hunter must atone for killing a god's sacred bull.A sacrificial maiden uncovers...

Can an architect and a construction worker find love amidst the concrete and the steel? Thanks to his friendship with a celebrity, Seth Mitchell's reputation as a partying ladies' man precedes him. But...

Haven and Sunshine are back at the beginning, surrounded by the souls and memories of those who went before.They may finally have a chance to find the peace they so desperately seek, but too soon it is...

A resurrected man, bound by dark magic, confronts unspeakable horrors on a cursed ranch. On the outskirts of a desolate Colorado ranch, something far more sinister than greed or corruption lurks. Abel...

In Book Two of The Montgomery Billionaires series by bestselling author Juliette N Banks, Atlas Montgomery is faced with a forbidden temptation at his brother's wedding. I had her once. In my arms and...

Seasoned operative Ariana Ramos is not what she seems at first glance.She is petite and trim, particularly beautiful, and pure dynamite.She is also the first operative since Soleada Garcia to be assigned...

They destroyed her life and her innocence leaving her to die. Now using her cursed bloodline she's about to make them all suffer for what they did. But when one deals with Evil no one is safe. As the...

Ronnie Cassidy After fleeing her abusive ex, Veronica 'Ronnie' Cassidy finds herself broke down in the middle of a snowstorm. Rescued by rough and burly biker, Griff Brooks, she has to ride out the blizzard...

A power-hungry megacorporation. A gang of cyberpunk rebels in their sights. A teen who may be the world's salvation, if hired killers don't get to him first. The far future. Adam dreams of simpler times....

Non-conformance is subversive!Diversity is deviancy!Indoctrination is education!Religion is purity!Welcome to the New World Order.In a society where non-conformance is considered subversive and deviant,...

Helen had lied to everyone. What she told even her closest friends was that her marriage just wasn't what she thought it was. But the truth was much harsher.She'd known things were wrong when Josh stopped...

When explorers unearth Amelia Earhart's journal, they awaken a deadly secret buried with it—one that blurs the line between history and haunting. A thrilling speculative adventure that intertwines history...

The Repairer of Reputations takes place in a near-future America, where the protagonist, Hildred Castaigne, is recovering from a head injury and becomes obsessed with a mysterious man named Mr. Wilde,...

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

'An engrossing and vivid novel brimming with compassion for nature .' - Anna Ittenere, The Sea Library Magazine. A family drama unfolds across Australia and New Zealand. There is betrayal but it's not...

When the shadows of the past gather, trouble isn't far behind ... Fenella Rose-Waterman is happy running The Cranky Lizard winery until a broken relationship lifts the lid on the Pandora's Box of her...