Jules Verne

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

Fantastic Fiction

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Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly...

Chris Donnelly and 17 more 16 hours 43 minutes

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Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1

Exploration

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Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1

The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. «Celebrated travels and travellers» tells the story of geographical discovery in the same well...

William Tomcho and 15 more 18 hours 23 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Mysterious Island (version 2)

The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of...

Alisson Veldhuis and 13 more 23 hours 23 minutes

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Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth

The story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English translation) who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth....

Lars Rolander and 5 more 10 hours 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Facing the Flag

Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally...

John Kooz and 2 more 6 hours 11 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Off on a Comet

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form...

Patrick Wells and 14 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

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Jules Verne - Tribulations of a Chinaman in China

The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wang to kill him before a given date. Everything changes when Kin-Fo discovers...

Leni and 11 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Topsy-Turvy

Topsy Turvy is a translation of Sans dessus dessous (1889). This anonymous translation was first published by J. G. Ogilvie (New York, 1890). We meet our old friends Barbicane and J.T. Maston from “Earth to the Moon”...

Anna Simon and 12 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Blockade Runners

Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his...

Mark F. Smith 2 hours 2 minutes

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Underground City or the Child of the Cavern

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Underground City or the Child of the Cavern

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...

Patrick Wells and 7 more 4 hours 30 minutes

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Around the World in Eighty Days (version 4)

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Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (version 4)

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his...

Ralph Snelson 7 hours 2 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Doctor Ox's Experiment

An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves at an extraordinarily tranquil pace. Doctor Ox has offered to light the town...

Alan Winterrowd 2 hours 12 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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