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The Child of the Cavern

by Jules Verne

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First published: 1877
Pages: 120

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01 - Contradictory Letters
12:04
02 - On the Road
13:05
03 - The Dochart Pit
15:26
04 - The Ford Family
16:05
05 - Some Strange Phenomena
8:33
06 - Simon Ford's Expirement
16:28
07 - New Aberfoyle
13:00
08 - Exploring
17:02
09 - The Fire Maidens
27:07
10 - Coal Town
11:14
11 - Hanging by a Thread
16:43
12 - Nell Adopted
21:50
13 - On the Revolving Ladder
10:57
14 - A Sunrise
17:57
15 - Loch Lomond and Loch Katrine
7:08
16 - A Final Threat
16:03
17 - The "Monk"
14:18
18 - Nell's Wedding
12:09
19 - The Legend of Old Silfax
3:30

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Word reaches retired engineer James Starr that the exhausted Aberfoyle colliery in Scotland may hold coal after all. Following a cryptic letter deep underground, he finds the Ford family still living in the depths and, with them, a vast unworked seam that soon gives rise to an entire subterranean town lit by electric light. But someone resents the intrusion. Rockfalls, floods, and a cut ladder point to a hidden enemy who wants the mine sealed forever, while a girl named Nell, raised in total darkness and ignorant of the sun, holds the key to the mystery. Verne blends industrial ambition with Gothic suspense beneath the Scottish hills.