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Journey to the centre of the Earth / Jules Verne.

by Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.

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The Modern Library, 2003, 1864.

Explorers -- Fiction.

Explorers -- Juvenile fiction.

Earth (Planet -- Core -- Fiction.

Earth (Planet -- Juvenile fiction.

Great illustrated classics

9780199538072 (2008 Oxford World's Classic trade pbk.)

0812970098 (2003 The Modern Library pbk.)

089577402X (1992 Reader's Digest ed.)

0140350497 (1986 Puffin Books pbk.)

039608249X (1984 Dodd, Mead)

0804900604 (1965 Airmont ed.)

039697751X (1959 Dodd, Mead pbk.)

Voyage au centre de la terre. English. English

Edition varies.

1 v. (various pagings).

Originally published in 1864.

[This record reflects various editions with several different illustrators and several different introductions by various people.]

1959 Dodd, Mead pbk. ed. has an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke and "16 full-page illustrations of the author, his environment and the setting of the book".

1984 Dodd, Mead ed. is illustrated by Edward Riou.

2003 The Modern Library pbk. ed. has an introduction by David Brin.

2008 Oxford World's Classic trade paperback edition is translated with an introduction and notes by William Butcher.

Translation of : Voyage au centre de la terre.

Professor Lindenbrock and his nephew Axel, on a quest to reach the very core of the earth, gain access to the interior by entering through the cone of an extinct volcano in Iceland. In their descent they pass through the strata of successively earlier and earlier periods until they glimpse a prehistoric man guarding a herd of mastodons.

Adventure fiction

Fantasy fiction

Science fiction

Classic fiction.

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