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When an unidentified "monster" threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the "monster" is actually a futu...

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BEFORE SCIENCE FICTION, THERE WAS JULES VERNE In the late 19 Century, during a span of 42 years, Jules Verne wrote over 50 novels in the Voyages Extraordinaires collection. His style and subject matter shaped Science Fiction into the genre we now know. Verne led the way, and his amazing tales still delight us today. The North American Jules Verne Society is pleased to present its first-ever anthology of short stories, written by a select ...

BEFORE SCIENCE FICTION, THERE WAS JULES VERNE In the late 19 Century, during a span of 42 years, Jules Verne wrote over 50 novels in the Voyages Extraordinaires collection. His style and subject matter shaped Science Fiction into the genre we now know. Verne led the way, and his amazing tales still delight us today. The North American Jules Verne Society is pleased to present its first-ever anthology of short stories, written by a select ...

First published in 1872, 'Around the World in Eighty Days' is an adventure fiction novel by Jules Verne, a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne's writings laid the foundation of modern science fiction quite considerably. In the story, Phileas Fogg, a solitary British gentleman of the Victorian era, endeavors to go around the world in an 80 days time period or less after a bet with his friends at the Reform Club. He travels via train, ...

First published in 1872, 'Around the World in Eighty Days' is an adventure fiction novel by Jules Verne, a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne's writings laid the foundation of modern science fiction quite considerably. In the story, Phileas Fogg, a solitary British gentleman of the Victorian era, endeavors to go around the world in an 80 days time period or less after a bet with his friends at the Reform Club. He travels via train, ...

Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. In this thrilling adventure tale by the father of science fiction, three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine, the Nautilus. Over the course of their fantastical voyage, they encounter the lost city of Atlantis, the South Pole, and the corals of the Red Sea. Along th...

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A Journey to the Center 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, expressed by another character in the novel, that it was not so.

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand-whether train or elephant-overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.

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Auf der Jagd nach einem furchteinflößenden Seemonster gehen Professor Pierre Aronnax, sein treuer Diener Conseil und der Harpunier Ned Land über Bord der Abraham Lincoln. Sie werden von einem beeindruckenden Unterseeboot gerettet, der Nautilus, und von Kapitän Nemo gut aufgenommen. Doch sie sind an ihn und seine Mannschaft gebunden und können nicht mehr in die Zivilisation zurückkehren. In weniger als zehn Monaten legen sie bei einer Weltumrun...

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.Verne's collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).Verne is generally conside...

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Bücher zählen bis heute zu den wichtigsten kulturellen Errungenschaften der Menschheit. Ihre Erfindung war mit der Einführung des Buchdrucks ähnlich bedeutsam wie des Internets: Erstmals wurde eine massenweise Weitergabe von Informationen möglich. Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung, aber auch die Unterhaltung wurde auf neuartige, technisch wie inhaltlich revolutionäre Basis gestellt. Bücher verändern die Gesellschaft bei heute.Die technischen Mö...

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