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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

by Jules Verne

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10 h 35 min · 44 parts

  1. My Uncle makes a great Discovery

    15:24

  2. The Mysterious Parchment

    10:58

  3. An Astounding Discovery

    18:53

  4. We Start on the Journey

    9:37

  5. First Lessons in Climbing

    9:39

  6. Our Voyage to Iceland

    13:02

  7. Conversation and Discovery

    8:24

  8. The Eider-Down Hunter-- Off at Last

    13:37

  9. Our Start - We Meet with Adventures by the Way

    10:50

  10. Traveling in Iceland

    10:50

  11. We Reach Mount Sneffels - The "Reykir"

    15:27

  12. The Ascent of Mount Sneffels

    19:24

  13. The Shadow of Scartaris

    14:27

  14. The Real Journey Commences

    11:18

  15. We Continue Our Descent

    11:06

  16. The Eastern Tunnel

    13:57

  17. Deeper and Deeper - The Coal Mine

    14:36

  18. The Wrong Road!

    13:13

  19. The Western Gallery - A New Route

    9:48

  20. Water, Where is it? A Bitter Disappointment

    15:08

  21. Under the Ocean

    10:26

  22. Sunday Below Ground

    15:57

  23. Alone

    11:14

  24. Lost!

    15:45

  25. The Whispering Gallery

    20:41

  26. A Rapid Recovery

    10:41

  27. The Central Sea

    19:07

  28. Launching the Raft

    14:12

  29. On the Waters - A Raft Voyage

    21:11

  30. Terrific Saurian Combat

    22:53

  31. The Sea Monster

    14:03

  32. The Battle of the Elements

    17:08

  33. Our Route Reversed

    18:11

  34. A Voyage of Discovery

    13:55

  35. Discovery Upon Discovery

    17:06

  36. What is it?

    11:40

  37. The Mysterious Dagger

    9:19

  38. No Outlet - Blasting the Rock

    16:30

  39. The Explosion and its Results

    16:42

  40. The Ape Gigans

    16:16

  41. Hunger

    16:51

  42. The Volcanic Shaft

    22:58

  43. Daylight at Last

    14:45

  44. The Journey Ended

    8:50

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Following a coded message in an ancient manuscript, an eccentric German professor, his reluctant nephew, and a stoic guide descend into the crater of an Icelandic volcano in search of a passage to the earth's core. Their journey leads through vast underground caverns, a subterranean sea, prehistoric monsters, and wonders no human has seen. Verne blends the science of his day with irrepressible imagination to create one of the founding works of science fiction. Thrilling and endlessly inventive, it captures the Victorian hunger for discovery and remains one of the great adventures in all of literature.

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Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my adventures. They were truly so wonderful that even now I am bewildered when I think of them.

My uncle was a German, having married my mother's sister, an Englishwoman. Being very much attached to his fatherless nephew, he invited me to study under him in his home in the fatherland. This home was in a large town, and my uncle a professor of philosophy, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, and many other ologies.

One day, after passing some hours in the laboratory—my uncle being absent at the time—I suddenly felt the necessity of renovating the tissues—i.e., I was hungry, and was about to rouse up our old French cook, when my uncle, Professor Von Hardwigg, suddenly opened the street door, and came rushing upstairs.

Now Professor Hardwigg, my worthy uncle, is by no means a bad sort of man; he is, however, choleric and original. To bear with him means to obey; and scarcely had his heavy feet resounded within our joint domicile than he shouted for me to attend upon him.

I hastened to obey, but before I could reach his room, jumping three steps at a time, he was stamping his right foot upon the landing.

"Harry!" he cried, in a frantic tone, "are you coming up?"

Now to tell the truth, at that moment I was far more interested in the question as to what was to constitute our dinner than in any problem of science; to me soup was more interesting than soda, an omelette more tempting than arithmetic, and an artichoke of ten times more value than any amount of asbestos.

But my uncle was not a man to be kept waiting; so adjourning therefore all minor questions, I presented myself before him.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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First published
1864
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
291
Language
English
Formats
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