Jules Verne
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El profesor Aronnax y sus dos compañeros, Consejo y Ned Land, son capturados por el capitán Nemo en su submarino Nautilus, del que no podrán salir. Durante su viaje, explorarán los mares, descubrirán maravillas nunca vistas por el ser humano y se enfrentarán a enormes criaturas marinas.
Considerada como una de las novelas pioneras de la ciencia ficción, Julio Verne ofrece en ella una mirada temprana a la exploración submarina, la tecnología...
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth, also translated as A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, follows a man, his nephew and their guide down an Icelandic volcano into the center of the earth. There they encounter an ancient landscape filled with prehistoric animals and natural dangers. There is some discussion as to whether Verne really believed that such things might be found in the center, or whether he shared the alternate view,
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Pioneering science-fiction writer Jules Verne is the second most translated author of all time (after Agatha Christie.) This translation of his short story A Voyage in a Balloon first appeared in Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art in a May 1852 edition, making it the first of the French writer's stories to be published in English. As Verne writes in this story: "May this terrific recital, while it instructs those who read it, not discourage...
24) Facing the Flag
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Thomas Roch, a brilliant French inventor, has designed the Fulgurator, a weapon so powerful that the state which acquired it would become absolute master of earth and ocean. However, unable to sell his unproven idea to France or any other government, Roch begins to lose his sanity, becoming bitter, megalomaniacal and paranoid. The United States Government reacts by tucking him away at a luxurious asylum in New Bern, North Carolina, where he is visited...
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"L'Île mystérieuse" de Jules Verne est un roman d'aventure palpitant qui suit un groupe de naufragés sur une île apparemment déserte. Ensemble, ils doivent apprendre à survivre et à explorer leur nouvel environnement, tout en cherchant à résoudre les mystères qui entourent leur présence sur l'île. Au fil de leur aventure, ils découvrent des technologies avancées et des créatures étranges, et finissent par réaliser que leur naufrage...
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A team of nineteenth-century American engineers builds a rocket to the moon in this visionary novel from the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days During the Civil War, the members of the Baltimore Gun Club delighted themselves by designing artillery the likes of which the world had never seen. But when the South eventually surrenders, the gun club languishes, until its president, Impey Barbicane, conceives...
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Embarquez pour un voyage époustouflant vers les confins de l'espace avec "De la Terre à la Lune" de Jules Verne. Ce roman captivant vous transporte dans une aventure incroyable o l'imagination et la science se rencontrent. Lorsqu'un groupe de passionnés décide de tirer un boulet de canon vers la lune, les limites de l'exploration spatiale sont repoussées. Plongez dans les détails fascinants du projet audacieux, des préparatifs minutieux aux...
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The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that was carried away by the comet there remained a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people did not realize at first what had happened, and considered the collision an earthquake....
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The sun had disappeared behind the snowy peaks of the Cordilleras; but the beautiful Peruvian sky long retains, through the transparent veil of night, the reflection of his rays; the atmosphere is impregnated with a refreshing coolness, which in these burning latitudes affords freedom of breath; it is the hour in which one can live a European life, and seek without on the verandas some cooling gentle zephyr; it seems as if a metallic roof was then...
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The Underground City is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, serialized in Le Temps in March and April 1877 and published immediately afterward by Pierre-Jules Hetzel. Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiving a letter from an old colleague, mining engineer James Starr sets off for the old Aberfoyle mine, thought to have been mined out ten years...
31) L'île à hélice
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L'Île à hélice est un roman de fiction de Jules Verne. Le roman raconte l'histoire d'un quatuor musical, en raison de la supercherie astucieuse, qui s'est avérée être sur une immense île flottante qui est devenue la maison des millionnaires américains et qui nage constamment dans l'océan Pacifique. Standard Island est constamment en danger: l'invasion d'animaux sauvages, l'attaque de pirates malais, la lutte de deux familles riches pour le...
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Extrait : "Il y a deux chances de ne jamais revoir les amis don’t on se sépare pour un long voyage : ceux qui restent peuvent ne se plus retrouver, au retour ; ceux qui partent peuvent ne plus revenir. Mais ils ne se préoccupaient guère de cette éventualité, les marins qui faisaient leurs préparatifs d'appareillage à bord du Franklin, dans la matinée du 15 mars 1875. Ce jour-là, le Franklin, capitaine John Branican, était sur le point...
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Découvrez "Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine", le roman captivant de Jules Verne qui vous entraîne dans un tourbillon d'aventures exotiques et d'humour délicieux. Suivez les pas de Kin-Fo, un riche Chinois décidé à dépenser sa fortune avant de mourir, et embarquez pour un voyage palpitant à travers la Chine. Entre péripéties rocambolesques, rencontres surprenantes et rebondissements inattendus, ce récit vous fera rire, réfléchir...
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En La isla misteriosa encontramos múltiples pasajes que nos llevan, junto con los personajes, a vivir aventuras llenas de acción, drama, fantasía, tecnología y ciencia. La tensión con la que narra el naufragio de cinco hombres del gobierno en plena guerra, también nos conduce a experimentar la sorprendente manera de sobrevivir en unan isla en la que, incluso, cuenta con una fauna extraña y fantástica.
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Fonolibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Dias de Julio Verne. ?Considerada una de las más apasionantes y divertidas aventuras de la ingeniosa pluma de Julio Verne?
En 1872, Phileas Fogg, un rico caballero inglés, obsesionado por la puntualidad y la exactitud, realiza una temeraria apuesta, arriesgando en ello, no sólo su fortuna, sino también su vida.
Acompañado por su atlético y espontáneo criado francés,...
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The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of the harbour of Charleston in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton and, later in the book, to rescue the father of a young girl held prisoner by the Confederates. Verne's tale was inspired by reality as many ships were actually lost while acting as blockade runners in and around Charleston in the early eighteen sixties.
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Aboard the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil assist crew on an expedition in search of a ship-destroying monster. A sudden collision hurls Aronnax, Conseil, and one other crew member into the sea. They find safety on the very menace they had been hunting, which they discover is the futuristic submarine the Nautilus piloted by the enigmatic Captain Nemo-inventor, musician,...